Thread: Are you superstitious?

Originally Posted by AshleyR

I didn't know a lot of these that have been mentioned already!!

I never step on cracks (don't want a mother with a broken back!), and I always hold my breath when going thru a tunnel. I make a wish on the first star. I never tell my wishes. I raise my feet when going over railroad tracks, and hold a button when I'm going under a train.

wow, those are some new ones for me. I forgot I am also a firm believer in "fingers crossed" when I am waiting to find the outcome of something.

I don't like to enter a building by like the front door ^ go out the back door. My mommy always said it is bad luck.

Originally Posted by May in Jersey

"My favorite was, if you hit your mother, your hand will stick out of your grave!"

Never heard this one before but it made me LOL!

I'd never heard that one either but I know this... if I'd ever hit my Mother, I'd have been in the grave before you could blink! LOL!

My MIL used to say -- when it thundered -- "That's the devil beating his wife". What? I wonder how these sayings get started?

Originally Posted by AshleyR

I didn't know a lot of these that have been mentioned already!!

I never step on cracks (don't want a mother with a broken back!), and I always hold my breath when going thru a tunnel. I make a wish on the first star. I never tell my wishes. I raise my feet when going over railroad tracks, and hold a button when I'm going under a train.

I've always known that bad things would happen when I was 28 and that good things would happen in 2004. I was right on both. Probably a coincidence, because good things happened to me in 2008 and I didn't see that coming!

Oh yeah... wishes. I wish on everything... white horses, my necklace touching the clasp on the chain, 1st star of the night, 3 popeyes, 11:11 (I get to wish twice a day with that one), wishbones. And I NEVER tell my wish!

To those who break chain letters, I'm in the same club! Just more stuff to clog one's e-mailbox!

This is a great thread. I have not heard of many of these and I always break chain letters. I can't think of any superstitions I hold, but I am a firm believer in karma. Wait, my Mom put a penny in my shoe on my wedding day. Was that for superstition? I never thought to ask.

Not too much, although I won't pick up a penny on the street if it is "tails" up. Heads up . . . absolutely good luck!