Superstitions.

[BeornWulfWer]

OldSuperstitions.com - Superstitions Database

Good Luck Superstitions
• A frog brings good luck to the house it enters.
• A spider spinning in the morning.
• Carry an acorn to bring luck & ensure a long life.
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Animal Superstitions
• A dog eating grass brings rain.
• A dove circling above is an omen of death.
• Rats leaving a ship - the ship will sink.Click here for more

Card Superstitions
• Unlucky to sit cross-legged when playing cards.
• Playing cards with a dog in room causes disputes.
• The luckiest seat is the one which faces the door; the most unlucky is that which has its back to the fire-place.Click here for more

Baby Superstitions
• Babies born with teeth become extremely selfish.
• Unlucky to wash a baby's head for the first 12 months.
• When a boy is born under the waning moon, the next birth will be a girl, and vice versa.Click here for more

New Years Superstitions
• Empty pockets or empty cupboards on New Years Eve portend a year of poverty.• Its bad luck to let a fire go out on New Year's Eve.Click here for more


New Home Superstitions
• Never carry a hoe into the house. If you do so by mistake, carry it out again, walking backward to avoid bad luck.• Never give a knife as a housewarming present, or your new neighbor will become an enemy.Click here for more

Hair Superstitions
• Cut your hair on Good Friday to prevent headaches in the year to come.• To drop a comb while you are combing your hair is a sign of a coming disappointment.Click here for more

Bad Luck Superstitions
• To milk a cow being sent to market..
• To see an owl in the sunlight.
• Changing a horse's name.
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General Superstitions
• Tying a knot into a handkerchief wards off evil.
• Itchy nose - you will have quarrel with someone.
• Ringing Bells means a new angel received wings.
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Acting & Stage Superstitions
• If an actress receives flowers as a present, she may wear them before or after the performance, but its considered unlucky to wear them on the stage. Artificial ones are generally used instead.
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Christmas Superstitions
• Dogs that howl on Christmas Eve will go mad before the end of the year.
• A Yule Log must not be bought and must be kept burning all night.Click here for more

Death Superstitions
• A bird in the house is a sign of a death.• If the person was evil, weeds will grow.• Pregnant women should not attend funerals.Click here for more

Wedding Superstitions
• If the groom drops the wedding band during the ceremony, the marriage is doomed.• The spouse who goes to sleep first on the wedding day will be the first to die.Click here for more

Halloween Superstitions• If you hear foot steps behind you on this night, don't look back. It may be the dead following you. Turning back could mean that you will very soon join the dead behind you.Click here for more

[kimm]

A few superstitions popular with my Grandmother. The 'unlucky' practices drove her to distraction if anyone dared test them.

Luck / Bad Luck:
Never put new shoes on the kitchen table.
Never open a umberella indoors.
Never whistle indoors.
The first days of the week are the luckiest.
If you find a feather near, your guardian angel has left a sign.

[Whiteruthenian]

If boys significantly predominate among newborn babies, then soon there will be a war.

UPD: I heard it was once proved experimentally (by exterminating the male part of a group of frogs). The mechanism of it is unclear, but I'm not so sure that it is just a superstition also in the case of humans.

[Savorgnan]

An Amerindian proverb: "If the White Man is cutting timber, cold is going to be the winter".

[Susi]

Something I picked up somewhere and still believe...

Sneezing three times or more in a row means someone is speaking poorly or bad about one.

[Uogiene]

-Putting out a fire with water or sand is bad. (pagan influence) Actually even now, when we are grilling something on a real fire and the wood is still burning, we're sitting and waiting, till it goes out naturally, not spilling water or sand on it. Tradition.
-Stork on the roof - household will have children soon (proven in my family)
-Falling bread on the ground and not picking it up. (old people even blow the -dust out of it and kiss it)
-Coming back home (because of not taking some important item with you), when rushing somewhere
-Putting keys and money on the table
-Itchy nose - you will drink (alcohol)
-Itchy left hand - you'll get money
-Mopping floor in the evening (you'll 'wash-out' your health)
-Brushing hair in the evening (something pagan probably, connected with devileses)
-Swaying legs while sitting somewhere high ('you're 'swaying' devils children')
-Not covering mirrors, when someone dies in the family (a spirit might (not) see itself and be scared)
-If someone knocking to the door and there is nothing after opening the door (Ms.Death has come). Also proven in my family

We have so many of them.

[Musaka]

Never look at your nails,somebody will spread gossips about you
If you are singing while you are eating,you wife will be crazy
If black cat cross your path,you have to go back three steps,spit three times and say:" away from my home,away from my home"
don't open umbrella inside the house..
If you are whisteling inside the house, mouses will come..
redhead women are witches
throwing water behind someone for good luck...

[ArMakedon]

I don't believe in superstitions at all.

Here's one Macedonian.
Don't get married in year with 366 days.

I'm getting married this year.

[melgalan]

I don't personally take superstitions serious, don't get me wrong they are fun. My grandmother is fanatical about them she has one for everything. No shoes on the table...no cutting your nails on a Sunday..and my personal favorite: never measure yourself, your measuring yourself for your coffin.Oh, damn grandmas are weird. I find myself following them even though I know they aren't logical.

[Carnyx]

Originally Posted by melgalan

I don't personally take superstitions serious, don't get me wrong they are fun. My grandmother is fanatical about them she has one for everything. No shoes on the table...no cutting your nails on a Sunday..and my personal favorite: never measure yourself, your measuring yourself for your coffin.Oh, damn grandmas are weird. I find myself following them even though I know they aren't logical.

Over here, that's bad manners, not superstition.

[melgalan]

Yeah, I figured that..I never put my shoes on the table..just because it isn't something most of us do, it doesn't seem polite. People in my family connect it to bad luck and supersition.