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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
I won't open an umbrella indoors, and I don't put new shoes on the table....if I give a gift of a knife or something sharp - I expect a coin in return so that the recipient and I, do not 'cut our luck'.
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My grandad's generation in my father's family were incredibly superstitious ad I grew up with these three and still abide by them. And it's not just new shoes but any...
Funnily enough they lived in a house numered 13! I always thought that superstition came from the number of people at the last supper - Jesus and the 12 disciples. Been to hospital today and noticed that one of the beds was numbered 12a rather than 13 - but today was my 13th session of radiotherapy!
Another superstition in our family was that if you come in by the front door you go out the same way and not the back door, and vice versa.
Don't look at the new moon through glass - bit of a bummer if you wear glasses!
Never heard of the magpie one - only the one for sorrow two for joy rhyme.