i.e monster will get you or bad luck
2006-10-28 12:05:47 · 27 answers · asked by ross 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Usually its mud squirting up your trouser leg.
2006-10-28 12:07:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I can remember as a child we used to say if you stood on a crack in the pavement a monster would get you but have not heard as grown ups it was just a game.
2006-10-29 18:36:32 · answer #2 · answered by butterfly55freedom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was an AA Milne poem called something like lines and squares, in which the protagonist mulled at length over this phenomenon. I think it was bears that were lying in wait for anyone foolish enough to step on the though I think the 1906 San Fran. answer above is much better!
2006-10-29 14:51:46 · answer #3 · answered by whyteay 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
haha. This question reminds me of a game I used to play with my younger siblings. We would test who doesn't stand on any cracks on the floor because we had tiles in our house before in the Philippines. Actually it's just a superstitious belief and I think some people who believe this might have the condition OCD...
2006-10-29 06:35:57 · answer #4 · answered by uaddict_101 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My sister stood on a crack in the pavement in 1999 and I have never seen her since! Oh Dear!
2006-10-28 19:11:02 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people say "IF you Step On A crack You`ll Break Your Mom`s Back!!!!" When somebody is walking on the sidewalks : little kids say this!!!!! This is however just a superstition!!!!Anyway to answer your question People just decide to believe these silly wacky ideas and that is where the "CRACKS IN THE SIDEWALK" superstition, Steps in.........People are peope and do CRAZY things {this is just one of them!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-28 19:20:03 · answer #6 · answered by Tinkzspace 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Superstitous is what it's called. i.e., a black cat cross your path, you stand under a ladder, you break a mirror (7 yrs. of bad luck), you stand on a crack (you break your momma's back), you walk around with one shoe on and one shoe off, a rabbit foot on your keychain (good luck purposes).
Mom of B & D
2006-10-31 14:20:51 · answer #7 · answered by Mom of B & D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haven't really got a clue, but remember from an early age mum telling me that the devil will get me if I stood on the cracks. Could possibly explain why I now walk funny....
2006-10-28 19:10:08 · answer #8 · answered by kellytnolan 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was angry at my mother and went out and jumped up and down on a crack in the sidewalk repeatedly--at that very moment, she fell off a ladder and broke her back just like the rhyme said!
2006-10-28 20:34:29 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Such people are ignorant and need to get rid of such superstitions, especially if they are religious or spiritual, for God makes it clear that belief in such superstitions are blasphemous to Him. The pavement crack superstition was one of the superstitions that just remained in society for some stupid reason.
2006-10-28 19:12:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is an old superstition...we used to say when I was a kid...alot of years ago...step on a crack and break your mother's back...
I used to try to avoid walking on the sidewalk cracks all the way home from school...which was about a mile....and alot of sidewalks.
2006-10-28 19:09:06 · answer #11 · answered by mynickname 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋