Are you superstitious?

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'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!)

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.

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!!

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

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?

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!!!!!

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

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

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.

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!

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!

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.

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

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.

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 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??

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

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.

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.

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 love green and I love to whistle. Beyond hope!

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

Not superstitious at all.