Superstitions

I know just what you mean Kenty, I try not to be superstitious but still cant put shoes on the table after my mother said it was bad luck!

About 10 years ago an old bloke I know said it was bad luck if you saw a single Magpie and you must say “Good morning Mr. Magpie, how’s your wife and family” then it makes it alright and try as I might I can’t not say it whenever I see one alone! :lol:

I still have to throw salt over my shoulder if I spill any! And I have a couple of items that I must have with me when I leave home which for me are second nature but some might see as superstitious.

The one thing I am not superstitious about is the number 13, my childhood home was number 13 in a small close and people used to ask my mam whether it bothered her, but although we had our problems, to me we still seemed to be the luckiest house in the close.

I don’t walk under ladders . I throw any salt i spill over my left shoulder. I can’t put new shoes on a table . If I forget anything and have to return for it I have to sit down and count to ten to break the bad luck . I can’t wear opals even though I think they are beautiful ( opals for tears unless its your birthstone ) . A new purse or wallet has to be ‘ hanselled’ with a coin by the giver . If you give someone a gift of any sort of knife you have to give them a penny or the friendship will be cut . Its very unlucky to take the third light from a match. Always leave a house by the door you entered through. A fallen eyelash should be placed on the back of your hand and blown away with a wish for luck.

I didn’t think I was very superstitious until I started typing this !! I blame my Mother who in turn blames her Mother :D

One that our family invented is that when we see the road gritter in winter we have to say … God Bless ye Mr Gritter Man to keep us safe on the road
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Three on a match (also known as third on a match) is a supposed superstition among soldiers during the Crimean War to World War I. The superstition goes that if three soldiers lit their cigarettes from the same match, one of the three would be killed or that the man who was third on the match would be shot. Since then it has been considered bad luck for three people to share a light from the same match.

The belief was that when the first soldier lit his cigarette, the enemy would see the light; when the second soldier lit his cigarette from the same match, the enemy would take aim and note if the soldier was friendly or foe; when the third soldier lit his cigarette from the same match, the enemy would fire.

There was in fact no such superstition during the First World War.(The light would not be visible if the soldiers were in a trench or bunker, as they usually were when not attacking.) The superstition was alleged to have been invented about a decade later by the Swedish match tycoon Ivar Kreuger in an attempt to get people to use more matches but it appears he merely made very shrewd use of the already existing belief which may date to the Boer War. In the 1916 novel “The Wonderful Year” the following explanation is given: “It arises out of the Russian funeral ritual in which the three altar candles are lit by the same taper. To apply the same method of illumination to three worldly things like cigars or cigarettes is regarded as an act of impiety and hence as unlucky.”

in other words complete arse water

Superstition has it that, at all times, a devil waits over your left shoulder, and also that spilling salt is bad luck (perhaps because it used to be rare and precious). Hence, you can mitigate your bad luck by throwing salt into the eyes of the devil. There’s also a belief that your guardian angel (who can be found over your right shoulder) spills salt to warn you of evil nearby. Either you throw the salt to hurt the devil or, as salt was valuable, as an offering to placate him.

are you religious ????