Are you superstitious?

Not really, I think it's a load of old rubbish really. So why will I never walk under a ladder? Or open an umbrella idoors? I think I'm conditioned to think this way because my mother was extremely superstitious and lived her life by loads of old sayings and beliefs. To this day I can never wear green clothes as she thought green was the work of the devil.

Crikey, I’d forgotten about the umbrella!

Beware! The bogey man will get you if you open an umbrella indoors.....(or so I was told).

Oh, I thought the roof would fall in!

No, not superstitious at all ( open umbrellas all the time indoors to dry them off.)
There is some sense though in not walking under ladders.

My MIL won’t have Lilac blooms in her house, although she has it growing in her garden

henetha I was never allowed to wear green either. None of my friends have heard of that one. Istill don't wear green but I'm not superstitious about it.

Well, Andyf, I’m not superstitious either , but as soon as a new shoe hits that table I seem to go onto autopilot and that show is on the floor before you can say boo!
Ditto with the umbrella.
Me superstitious?
Nah load of rubbish. Blame it on my parents.

Shoe not show......

My mum was nurse and was very annoyed if anyone brought red and white flowers to the ward as she maintained it was a death of someone.

Yes oopsadaisy No new shoes on the table in this house either and no crossed knives. I always throw a bit of spilt salt over my left shoulder, mutter an incantation at single magpies and won't cross people on the stairs (at home anyway).

My old landlady believed that it was unlucky to look at the new moon through glass - tricky if you wear spectacles and used to tell me off for mending an item of clothing while I was wearing it 'sewing sorrow to your soul'.
What a load of nonsense, but just in case...

Fingers crossed Oopsadaisy52

Never superstitious about anything I can think of, will happily walk under ladders see jackdaws without talking to them happily have red and white flowers wouldn’t worry about shoes on tables although it’s not something I would normally do in fact there is only one thing I can think of and I not sure it’s so much a superstition as karma I always believe if I use illness as an excuse I may be asking for trouble

Ooooooh nooooo I’d forgotten about the salt as well!
Maybe I am superstitious after all....
Mortified !

yes ,about some things,never heard of the green clothes thing ,might be because we're off irish GP's and green is the national colour ..even songs about it.I do get twitchy if I haven't finished all the housework before midnight on Hogmanay in case I bring shed loads of bad luck onto us so I'm often found cleaning windows at 11'45 ..just in case

No

Me neither. I can't think of anything, anyway.

No umbrellas opened in the house, spilt salt thrown over shoulder, no shoes on the table, don't walk under ladders, hang garlic over the door to keep out witches, never wear green with pink as 'pink and green are ne'er seen except on a fool', seven years bad luck for breaking a mirror, don't lay down an opened pair of scissors, don't give scissors as a present as you will 'cut the luck' of the recipient, hold your collar and touch the pavement if you see an ambulance, women should not whistle - 'a whistling woman and a crowing cock.....' can't remember the rest. Is that enough? My mum lived by all the above and making this list has made me realise that, touch wood, I am not superstitious.

Not superstitious at all.

"A whistling woman and a crowing hen are good to neither God nor men" ... according to my mother, at any rate.

I love green and I love to whistle. Beyond hope!

I'd be surprised if anyone has heard this one. I'm sure my Granny used to make them up and then believe it. If I laughed a lot she would say "If you laugh today you'll cry tomorrow!".

I haven’t even heard of some of these! Why would you put shoes on the table, anyway?

I have been known to touch wood, thinking at the same time how silly I am.

Unlucky to cut your fingernails on a Sunday and don't stir your tea with a knife (as if you would!) -Stir with a knife, stir up strife.