Superstitions

Yesterday, I was reading a book about the superstitions of people from ages past, and was reminded of the ones I have encountered along life’s road. Oh, what we store in our memories. It’s no wonder I have senior moments, with all of this in my storage files. However, here are a few for you to mull over, true or not.

• A horseshoe hung in the bedroom will keep nightmares away.

• A bird in the house is a sign of a death.

• A beginner will always have good luck: beginner’s luck.

• A cat has nine lives.

• An acorn at the window can keep lightning out of the house.

• An itchy palm means money will come your way.

• Crossing your fingers helps to avoid bad luck and helps a wish come true.

• Dream of a lizard is a sign that you have a secret enemy.

• Dream of running: a sign of a big change in your life.

• If the first butterfly you see in the year is white, you will have good luck all year.

• If you kill a snake, hang him belly side up and it will rain.

• If the wind causes the underside of the leaf to show, it will rain soon.

• If you carry a buckeye in your pocket, you will have good luck.

• If you carry a rabbit’s foot you will have good luck.

• If you find a four-leaf clover, you will have good luck.

• If a cricket sits on your hearth, you will have good luck.

• If bees come home it will storm.

• If fish surface, it will storm.

• If you count the chirps of a cricket for 14 seconds and add 40, it will tell the temperature.

• If you count the number of stars in a ring around the moon, you will know how many days it will be before it rains.

• If you hear thunder in January, it will frost in May.

• If you find a penny, pick it up and you will have good luck all day.

• If the bottom of your feet itch, you will make a trip.

• It is bad luck to sing at the dinner table.

• It is bad luck to enter one door and exit another.

• It is bad luck to walk under a ladder.

• It is bad luck if a black cat crosses your path.

• Never take a broom along when you move. Throw it out and buy a new one.

• Step on a crack, break your mother’s back.

• To find a horseshoe brings good luck.

• To break a mirror will bring you seven years bad luck.

• To open an umbrella in the house is to bring bad luck.

• To make a happy marriage, the bride must wear: something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.

• You can break a bad luck spell by turning seven times in a clockwise circle.

• You must get out of bed on the same side you got in on or you will have bad luck.

Source: K.P. Guessen