Are you superstitious ?

Or Friday!

I am not at all superstitious just won't let anyone leave a pair of shoes on the table, or walk under a ladder, or walk past someone on the stairs or ......

I always say I am not superstitious but I am forever 'knocking on wood'. I think it's more of a habit than I think of bad luck.

Oh dear. I have just thought I do say 'cross your finger's' a lot. Blow it, now I just don't know.

Not superstitious but wobble at the thought of new shoes on a table or putting an umbrella over my head indoors...not sure why either of these are no-no's - does anyone? And I think twice about changing clothes that I've put on inside out but vanity wins out! Lol!

I am getting work done on the gutters at the moment so there are various ladders leaning up against the house. I had called in a tree surgeon to cut back a holly tree that is brushing the side of the house (and getting in the way of gutter work). I was quite happy to walk under a ladder to show him the tree - he carefully moved it out of his path. "I am about to go up a tree with a chainsaw. I don't need any bad luck", he said.

Not me but I do cross my fingers when walking under a ladder and the first thing I say on the first day of the month is 'White Rabbits'

When I see a magpie, I say'good morning mr magpie, hows mrs magpie'.
After saying that you are supposed to spit on the cat but I have 3 gorgeous cats and would not spit on any of them

Think I have mentioned this before, I borrowed a special scarf of my daughter's when I went for the results of my first scan. That was almost 3 years ago. I still have it - I think that if I give it her back I won't be lucky next scan.

Crossed knives and forks send me batty.

Spitting when I see a white horse (thank goodness there are none round here)

The salt thing

Touch wood

Superstitious, moi, NO

Silverfish.

Blow, now I think of it, I do say "Good morning Captain, how's your family" when I see a Magpie because a friend told me it was good luck!

Ruddy hell I am superstitious.

One of my aunts was very superstitious and had all sorts of "beliefs" that I have never heard of elsewhere. Itchy elbows, for example, presaged sleeping in a strange bed. She also had a fund of not-quite-correct sayings, such as "Don't look a gift horse up the nose."

Magpies - one is unlucky, by the time you get to the magic number 7, all will be well for that day. I wonder if we're the last generation steeped in superstition, as a result of our parents and grandparents. I realise, I would stop my children walking under ladders - but I'd dress it up in elf n safety (someone may drop a paint pot for example)

All vain attempts to control the world you live in, by 'supernatural' means!
When asked (which happens rarely) if I am a religious believer, I always answer that I am not superstitious... seems to cover it...

We always say 'Good morning Mr Magpie, how are your wife and children' but, when the children were little, any bad luck that was potentially caused by seeing a lone magpie could be cancelled by seeing a heron! Luckily we crossed two rivers on the way to school so I could generally guarantee a 'good luck' day!