Are you superstitious?

DH walks into the house and dumps whatever he is carrying onto the table. Better than on the floor I guess.

I never used to be superstitious, but when I was diagnosed with breast cancer in October, at the consultation (when I expected the all clear!) I was wearing a nearly new jumper, which I was very fond of. I have put it on three or four times since, but took it off after five minutes as I felt it carried bad luck. I eventually put it in the bin last week, didn't even want to give it to a charity shop. Stupid or what??

Well, wearing anything that doesn’t cheer you up, shouldn’t be worn should it? I made myself 2 dresses and got pregnant each time. I never made myself any clothes ever again, might try it now though!

I have magpies in my garden, and whenever I see a single one I feel worried (one for sorrow) even though intellectually I know that the location of a bird could have no possible repercussions on my life.

I'm not superstitious but boy, do I get into trouble when doing things that are taboo to people who are. I do them anyway.

My grandmother was superstitious and told me that white and red flowers represent blood on snow (something to do with the WW1 I think). She also said you should never let a baby see itself in a mirror. I have to admit I do still "touch wood" but I think more out of habit than anything else.

I don’t wear green either; it was the colour of my convent school uniform and I swore never to wear it once I got out of there. Obviously the nuns hadn’t heard about green being the work of the devil?

No, not superstitious at all. MIL was unhappy that I grew hydrangeas which she said were a sign of sadness to come. She worried about my absence of superstition.

Superstitions usually based on common sense. Don't walk under ladders in case something falls on you from above; don't open umbrellas indoors in case you knock something over!

Don't think I'm particularly superstitious but I admit to always holding back when I have to pick up a glove I've dropped. So stupid. What am I going to do, walk away and leave it there? Have to admit to inwardly smiling at my reaction every time and yet the reaction persists. Brainwashed at an early age obviously!

I love cow parsley, but Mum wouldn't have it in the house as apparently it is also called "Mother die". She also said peacock feathers are very unlucky (the evil eye?). I realise now I am not nearly as superstitious as she was.

To answer original post: in a word No! Ive not read the thread though.

I believe the "green" thing is a superstition because the colour green belongs to the little folk and they become very cross and feel very disrespected if others wear it without their permission and so the wearers leave themselves open to a curse or two..on the other hand, if permission is sought then no probs

I'm an atheist so by definition cannot be superstitious.... as religion is the biggest and most dangerous superstition of all! No.... I walk under ladders ...put new shoes on tables ables... open my umbrella indoors... pass on the stairs...... Are ther really people left in Britain in the 21st century who still believe in all this crap....oh and I left out broken mirrors!!!!!

Kim19

Yes, I have handed back dropped gloves and put my finger to my lips to shush the recipient. Thanking the person who retrieves your glove is, I'm told, back luck. Who thinks these things up?

SAGGI
Me too but it won't go down well with believers.

Jordana, I am the same having been a nurse, no red and white flowers together.No keys on the table, salt over the shoulder when spilt, dont walk under ladders, umberellas open indoors, only to dry them. Me superstitious, who made you think that!!

Green being unlucky as a colour for clothes was still common among the older generation when I was a child in the Glasgow area, but mainly among protestants - green being regarded as a symbol of Irish Catholics!

I never put shoes on the table, but more for hygienic reasons than superstition, or so I tell myself. A lot of superstitions were to my mind invented either to teach people to be careful or thrifty.

Not walking under ladders is surely only common sense.

I'll ring lilac into the house because I love it but still salute single magpies: "I salute you, Citizen Magpie, you and your Significant Other, if applicable." (My youngest daughter's formula!)

If you give someone a purse you should put a coin in there to make sure it is never empty in the future. Apparently!

I salute magpies, spit and cross myself; difficult when you are driving a car.
I have to stop reading this thread; so many things I have been doing unwittingly; no wonder I have bad luck! I didn't know about hydrangeas, cow parsley or dropping gloves, or was it picking them up?

I think the most logical explanation for not wearing green is that arsenic was used to create different shades of green for clothing, wallpaper etc. When the clothes got wet they gave off toxic fumes and people became ill. It has been suggested that the green colouring in the wallpaper in Napoleons room caused him to die of arsenical poisoning.

This thread has brought back memories but the only one I stick to is new shoes on the table. My DM used to say that if you put your cardi on inside out you had to wear it like that for the rest of the day!

Oh I had all of these-courtesy of an Irish grandmother
As well- Never come in the front door and go straight out the back without doing something-you take the luck out of the house.
If you put on socks or stockings inside out leave them or your luck will change for the worst
Green she said was the fairies' colour and they didn't like you wearing it.
Crossed knives meant a quarrel, the youngest person in the room must uncross them.
Every now and then one of her superstions comes back to me.
I don't believe them of course! But if I have to carry somethng through my house I will stop to turn the kettle on or do some other little. thing!

I think I am superstitious, no shoes on the table, no May blossom or peacocks feathers in the house, touch wood, strangely enough I love green clothes but one of my old grannies would never wear pink, she said every time she did someone died!

I avoid the new shoes on table and throw salt over my shoulder if spilt. (Should it be the left or right shoulder?.) But it's ok to open an umbrella indoors as long as you don't put it over your head.