Welcome to Friday Fives, my weekly meme where I take it easy and post a list of five…anythings. Favorite movies, favorite websites of the week, whatever I can think of that adds up to five. In honor of it being Friday the 13th, I’m reprinting a post I wrote way back on January 13, 2006, which was also – you guessed it – a Friday.
Originally titled I’m Not Afraid of Friday the 13th, here’s the reprinted post with my five superstitions in bold:
But I am somewhat superstitious about other things. For as long as I can remember, whenever I spill salt (which is pretty much every time I bake), I toss a pinch over my left shoulder. It’s supposed to keep the devil away or something. I have NO IDEA where I got that from, but I always do it.
I won’t walk under ladders, but that seems more like common sense than superstition. What if the person on the ladder is holding a can of paint and they drop it just as I walk underneath? I’m not even sure what bad thing is supposed to happen if you walk under a ladder.
Thanks to spending most of my middle and high school years participating in school theater productions, I know to never say “good luck” before a performance. It’s ALWAYS “break a leg”. It’s also bad luck to say “Macbeth” before a theater performance!
This isn’t a superstition, but I ALWAYS put my left shoe on first. Always. If I ask someone to hand me my shoes and they give me the right shoe, I wait until they give me the left one and then put it on first. I shudder to think of what would happen if I ever broke my left foot and could only wear a shoe on my right foot. (Knock on wood). I’m pretty sure there would be a rip in the very fabric of my universe.
I always say knock on wood and try to do it when I talk about something bad happening. Cripes, I’m more superstitious than I thought!
I hope today is uneventful for everybody. Try not to spill any salt, okay?
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What are you superstitious about? Tell me in a comment!
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I can relate with some of your beliefs, I think that’s normal with some especially to religious countries.
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I also have a list of my own beliefs but I try not to believe in them all the time hehe.
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I think you are right about not walking under a ladder, that’s just asking for trouble. I won’t have anything to do with a broken mirror, but again, that’s more about not wanting to get cut than anything else. My wife does that salt thing. Guess who’s behind her with the vaccum?
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In our province, we always have the superstition not to cut nails at night. But it’s kind of like more of a precaution than a superstition. The thing is that you avoid cutting nails in the dark. Do you have that superstition too? Thanks for this interesting post.
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There are people who refuse to start anything new, make a decision or even step out of the house on Friday the 13th. There are mixed feelings about the combination of Friday and the 13th and many people consider the date 13 unlucky,
In our province, we always have the superstition not to cut nails at night. But it’s kind of like more of a precaution than a superstition. The thing is that you avoid cutting nails in the dark. Do you have that superstition too? Thanks for this interesting post.
-Winnie
Superstition and being a creature of habit go hand in hand. Having said that I find it hard to walk under a ladder.. or if i see 3 black cats.
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I’m not very superstitious but why risk it. I’m also not going to take unnecessary risks such as walking under ladders.
Friday the 13th is a big one in my family… we have mixed feelings about the whole day of Friday and the 13th.