Anybody have any? My wife has alot, but mine have more to do with racing. And some are just from personal experience. Tell me the ones you believe in, not just the ones you've heard. Believe me folks, we're not the type of people to live in fear either.
We live out in the country & have lots of cats around, 2 are pure black, she will on purposely turn around if they cross her path.
666? We just dont do it.
Dont ever step under a ladder.
Racing superstitions. No green, no peanuts or sunflower seeds, no eating chicken on race day, no saying rain on race day. We dont even say rain when we are at SDC.
I know this all seems silly, but as another superstitious person told me once -- " i dont believe in them, i just dont take the chance. " He is the same guy that will not hotlap his racecar unless he talks to me first.
I just thought this would make a interesting topic. 8)
The only Superstition I have is on an LP from 1972!!!
Per my post on the HomeStay thread. I guess the only one I fear is when you break a mirror? If so, I'm not gonna live till 125 like I planned. ;)
I would love to teach a unit (and I just might now!) about superstitions and their origins. I own a black cat, go to church most Sundays, try to pray daily, have no problem with number combinations unless they are on a bill, Worry alot, but who doesn't these days?
In high school and college while competing in sports I would be in a routine of sorts, eat the same pre competition foods, sleep at the same times etc...but I have gotten past that.
I do know that mirrors at one time were an expensive, and important item for the wealthy. In order to assure their safety, the help would be warned that if a mirror was broken, bad luck would ensue. Needless to say, a stigma was placed on the breaking of a mirror.
As a manager one day, I was working a cash register, a total came to $6.66 and the patron refused to pay that exact amount, they paid $6.67 instead!
superstitios? Maybe?
But the biggest one is if I cant get to the city at least once a month while open something BADwilll happen!! LOL!!
well how do folks, great thread!! and i believe barney fife also said I'm not superstitious just cautious lol, anyway i have a few. don't everyone laugh at once but i try not too step on cracks, i once threw a perfectly good T shirt away because everytime i wore that shirt i relief at work would call off and i would have too work 16hrs. the money is good but when you would have too work midnights too days that stinks man i would come home dog tired get a 4 hour nap and go right back in too work. i will not pick a penny up tails up and if i look at it and its heads down my guard goes up. black cats i try my hardest too stay clear of. that's all i can think of right now but when i think of more i will post.
Well Rube good news to hear on the mirrors, there are so many "tales" on that one, so maybe I'll still have a chance to live till 125??? (was told as a child everytime you break a mirror you take 7 years off your life) ;) Black cats I think actually bring luck so all of you who may stear clear of them may want to rethink? Funny though Avalanche I do find myself not wanting to step on cracks.....not sure why that is but I do avoid or extra long step over them so can see that I guess I may be superstitious there....mmmm.
I have heard that if you turn over a heads down peny, it will be good luck for you, AND the person who ultimately gets it.
I have to agree with sandune-maybe thats why physics is kickin my you know what......darn bad luck cloud...
Everytime I find a penny (heads up), I put it in my left shoe for good luck. My grandma taught me that when I was real little and it has stayed with me ever since. I was cheering with some friends at a marathon in St. Louis this past Saturday and while we were waiting for the runners to pass where we were standing, we walked to a gas station for coffee. On the way back to our spot, I noticed a penny heads up on the sidewalk and I immediately stopped and put it in my shoe. Everybody thought I was crazy. But I told them, "Watch! Good things will happen to me today!"
I can't prove that good things happened, but nothing too terribly bad happened!
My wife wont lay her purse on the ground or floor cuz her mother said not to cuz she'll never have any $$$$.
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Wouldn't your shoe get awfully full if in fact the penny did work?
I guess I am asking when is it okay to a.)take the penny out, and b.)spend same said penny? I have a got of lucky pennies, and don't know if I spend them or not!
I toss the penny in my change jar when I get home. I don't leave it in my shoe!
Everytime my grandmother would see Hay (example: in a field near a barn) she would lick her index finger on her right hand and press it to the palm of her left hand, then make a fist with her right hand and stamp her left (while doing this, she would make a wish). BUT, she could not look back at the Hay, that would be bad luck.
Also, anytime we were walking together, and something came between us, such as a column or tree, she would say "bread & butter."
Anyone else heard of these 2 things, or was that just her?
Quote from: tiffanylynnt on October 25, 2011, 08:03:47 PM
Everytime I find a penny (heads up), I put it in my left shoe for good luck. My grandma taught me that when I was real little and it has stayed with me ever since. I was cheering with some friends at a marathon in St. Louis this past Saturday and while we were waiting for the runners to pass where we were standing, we walked to a gas station for coffee. On the way back to our spot, I noticed a penny heads up on the sidewalk and I immediately stopped and put it in my shoe. Everybody thought I was crazy. But I told them, "Watch! Good things will happen to me today!"
I can't prove that good things happened, but nothing too terribly bad happened!
This is the way I've always heard the penny story told to me also. To this day I will never pick one up if it's face down. I don't usually put them in my shoe anymore, but I will pick them up if they're face up.
When I first learned it, I did it just for fun (I never really believed it). Now it has turned into a habit, and I guess I do it in memory of my grandma. Everytime I feel the penny in my shoe, I think of her so I guess its more of a sentimental thing than a superstition.
DollarCityBoy -- my wife does the "bread & butter" thing too.
dollar city boy thank you!! my grandmother would always say that. (bread&butter) correct me if I'm wrong please but the reason you would say that too eachother was too prevent and argument or ill feelings? wow that brought back a lot of awesome memories of her, god rest her soul! :)
I have enough OCD issues , if I continue reading this thread, I will end up developing more habits!
lol rube.
Grand parents.. ?? they were the best werent they? Lots of great memories there.. :)
yes they were!! and i miss them dearly and they have been gone now for 8/10 years. but i know they are with god and having the time of there afterlife ;D
I only have 1 grandparent left and she's so stubborn, God's gonna have to do a lot of persuading to get her to go when her time is called!
My other grandma (my dad's mom) has been gone since Dec. 27, 2007. She would call me at least twice a week because she thought living an hour away from each other was too far! Sometimes when my phone rings, there's a split second where I think it's gonna be her. She grew up in the Ozarks, very back-woodsy and I'm sure she could of told you a lot of superstitions she grew up with! The penny thing is really the only thing I remember every detail of. She also did the "salt over the shoulder thing" and I remember she had horsehoes hanging around the house.
I have a professor who has a horseshoe dangling from the top of the door with a bandaid taped to the wall beside the door in case it should fall and crack open your head. Which would fall under the catergory of bad luck, wich is everything the horseshoe is against.