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Originally Posted by mobertol
In Italy it's the number 17 that is bad luck, especially Friday the 17th
Comes from the roman numeral XVII which is an anagram of VIXI which means "I have lived" -a perfect tense in Latin which implies "I am dead..." , at least that's what I've been told. Hence the superstition.
In the DaVinci Code I seem to remember them explaining the 13 thing being linked to a massacre of innocents in France...
A lot of superstitions are linked to nature and death -owls are bad luck, crows, a single magpie etc...
New shoes on the table I would avoid, like Margaret. Not walking under ladders makes sense especially if they are painting up there...  |
If owls are bad luck then birdwatchers must be always having a lot of it and the RSPB! So that ones rubbish, a creation of primitive minds!
