Is anyone superstitious and if so , of what?
I like to think of myself as quite a logical and reasonable person yet I salute a single magpie, cross my fingers when walking past someone on the stairs , wont walk under a ladder and  dont like to see crossed knives and forks ( amongst many other things)

anyone else like this or am I  just mad ?  ;)

Hi Lel,

My Dad used to forbid any of us in the family to cut our nails on a Sunday, telling us that if witches got hold of Sunday nail clippings they could use them in making an effigy of you to curse you with   So ingrained into me was this superstition that I didn't dare cut my nails on a Sunday until I was about 37 :o It doesn't bother me now though, although, of course, I have had the head of a frog since my late thirties :D

But I don't cross my cutlery on my plate either, and if I spill any salt I always throw a pinch over my left shoulder :)

Lesley

ROFL @ Lesley's frog-head! :D :D

I feel compelled to say 'Good morning Mr Magpie' to any single magpies that I see ;) :D

My nanna bless her was so superstitious, the thing with most of them its just common sense as to why you wouldn't do them :D.  Heres some of the ones I remember.

- Walking under ladders (thats just asking for trouble IMO)
- Crossing on the stairs (thats daft)
- Knives and forks crossed (bad manners)
- The one with salt ??????
- Black cat crossing your path ( maybe the cat has nowhere else to walk) :D
- 2 crows together (maybe they are Mr and Mrs Crow)
- New shoes on the table (thats just unhygenic SP?)
- Cutting your toesnails on a Sunday (LOL)
- When you give birth you must go and have the baby churched (what??)
- Don't wash your hair if you are on your period (this one goes back a long time my nanna used to make my mum and sister use dry shampoo :O
- The above also used to apply if you had just given birth (OMG)
- Not fogetting if a bird poos on you its meant to be lucky (lucky and hilarious for everyone else but not you)

Hope that made some of you chuckle

Michelle :)

I remember the dont wash your hair whilst having a period one ;)

Babys were *introduced* into the Church community ..hence Churched :)

Yes, thats right Melody, also the mums were blessed at the same time.

How did the assesment go for OH?????

Christine, Spain.

HE PASSED :D :D :D

He is now an NQT :D :D

Thanks for asking ;) Only 5 more work days and then we can have 6 weeks off together :)

Its the mother that was churched, she had to be churched before the child could be baptised.

Nope not at all !

We got married on Friday the 13th , it was a full moon and we spent the night together in the same bed the night before   :D :D

Lucy
xx

ps have also been known to cut my toenails on a Sunday ! ;)

Nope not superstitious at all :) I have heard of some of the ones mentioned

If you break a mirror, you have 7 years of bad luck

"new shoes on the table"  one, was one that my mum always got upset about.  I never understood why really as the were clean and unworn,  I would be more upset if my kids put their old shoes on the table, especially their trainers coz they are disgusting!!!!!  :D

"Cut them on Monday, you cut them for wealth
Cut on a Tuesday,you cut them for wealth
Cut on a Wednesday, cut them for news
Cut on a Thursday, a new pair of shoes
Cut on a Friday, cut them for sorrow
Cut on a Saturday, see your sweetheart tomorrow

BUT woe is he that pareth hoof or horn on the Sabbath day"

- from my mum!! - who also advised us to smash a hole in the bottom of our boiled egg shell, otherwise, the wicked witches could sail away to sea in them and whistle up a storm to drown poor fisher folk!

And my OH's mum would always, if she saw 1 magpie say "good morning Master Magpie - give my regards to your wife and children".   OH & all my kids now say it ....gets a mite monotonous with the no of maggies on the golf course at the moment!!

Margot

I talk to Magpies as well - especially if they happen to be stealing my eggs before I get to them or the chicks out of the nests I am watching.  I had better not write what I am inclined to say to them :D