Does anyone have any superstitions?

[captainbovine]

I won't buy my own purse. When I was young I bought a purse, the next week I lost my job. I kept that purse for a  year and was unemployed for a year. I chucked the purse away and had a job the next day

So OH goes in and purchases purses for me once we've been in the shop and I've picked the one I want. That's the only superstition I  have.

[bitsnknots]

The only thing I won't do is walk under a ladder.  I know that some people won't wear anything green.  I was in M & S once and heard a lady say to her mum 'That's a nice skirt mum'  to which her mum replied 'No it's not - it's green'.

[ilove2patch]

No I don't think I have.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Well done you. me neither.

[cookiecookuk]

i do not have any but my mum had loads .her best were

not to use a purse or bag any one gave her if it never had a penny in it.

do not put new shoes on table

and always turned money in her purse while looking at the new moon through glass.

and hubby goes mad if i try to put umbrella up indoors

[ed_blackadder_1]

Yup my mum has all those plus she won't have anything in the house with a peacock on it, or with feathers

[cookiecookuk]

never heard of the peacock one

[chickengrandma-2008]

I haven't got any although I do 'touch wood' sometimes.  Not that I think it works!

[bankhaunter]

One should always smash the shell after eating a boiled egg to prevent witches using them to sail out to sea and sink ships.

What I do now is to make a very small hole or crack hoping the witch doesn't notice and are themselves drowned instead.

Oh, never leave your eggshells unbroken in the cup, Think of us poor sailor-men and always smash them up,

For witches come and find them and sail away to sea, And make a lot of misery for mariners like me.

[leoleoleo123]

No... i dont have any....

[ed_blackadder_1]

Cookie, apparantly in ancient times peacocks symbolised death, I saw it on the TV yesterday I had always wondered why, my nan was the same used to throw a right wobly if anyone brought in anything to do with peacocks, especially their feathers, which was difficult as they lived near a country estate that had peacocks.  But if you look it up on google it says they bring harmony and safety, don't know which to believe. But I know there are a lot of older folk who won't have them in the house.

[fishpieface]

No, I don't have any superstitions and I've not come to any harm (yet!).

Someone we know won't ever have a green car.  Good thing they didn't see

the courtesy car we had for the last couple of weeks - it was the lareyest

shade of lime green I've ever seen!

[rose2008-2008]

I feel superstitious talking about superstitions!!!!!!!!!!!!!. LOL. I cannot stand no 13 and do not do a lot on that day especially on Friday too. I have ocd which is worse but i have to laugh rather than cry. No walking under ladders for me. They say Rubies are unlucky none of them then lol. No umberellas up indoors , i try to just put them up slightly to dry but not too much. Ohhhhhh i could go on. LOL. Oh well not to worry.

[ed_blackadder_1]

Our old house was number 13, we had some bad luck but I think we would have had that anywhere, not worried about ladders, no umberellas in doors only because you get water everywhere, garage please.

[captainbovine]

my OH was picking some cow parsley to bring to me to put in a vase. He thought it looked nice. An old lady saw him and pounced! she said it was very unlucky and would bring a death to the house. She took it off him and threw it over the hedge

[ed_blackadder_1]

Thats a new one, that made me laugh so much, I borrowed your smiley 

[goldenangelanimal]

Lilac is supposed to be unlucky in the house as well

If I go to anyone's house , I have to go out of,the same door as I went in, have no idea where this has come from though

[bitsnknots]

My mum's just come with another one.  It's supposed to be unlucky to pass a salt cellar hand to hand.  Also, any sort of blossom is supposed to be unlucky in a house.

[****daisy****]

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@captainbovine wrote:

my OH was picking some cow parsley to bring to me to put in a vase. He thought it looked nice. An old lady saw him and pounced! she said it was very unlucky and would bring a death to the house. She took it off him and threw it over the hedge

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Also known as Devil's Parsley, possibly because of its resemblance to the highly poisonous Hemlock, this plant occurs in accounts of witchcraft practices. 

The origin of the name Mothers Dies seems to be a folk tale that children were told that if they picked cow parsley, their mother would die. This threat would deter children who couldn't tell the difference from picking hemlock which is poisonous. 

Like sweet woodruff, cow parsley has the reputation of “breaking your mother’s heart”. This is said to have come about because the tiny white blossoms drop quickly. In the days before vacuum cleaners, the temptation for mothers to ban these work-generating posies from the house was understandable. This may be where the superstition came from describing Cow Parsley as ‘unlucky indoors’ and a ‘harbinger of death’.