Mental Floss:
Spilling pepper, complimenting a baby, and cutting your fingernails after dark are just a few of the things that will earn you bad luck around the world.
I’ve always been fascinated by superstitions and their origins. Many of these are common to us here in North America and some seem “silly”. My mom was very superstitious – for example, she thought it was bad luck to let a rocking chair rock with no one in it. What are your “odd” superstitions?
Upgrading on release day doesn’t count, does it? 🙂
“My mom was very superstition”
Every time I travel to the appropriate places, I have to bring back holy water. Which my mother blesses herself with every day.
Had to do specific detours to Fatima and Knock, just to start with. She was happy that I brought her to Rome so she could collect her own at the Vatican.
Aw! That’s a very sweet thing for you to do!
Never go with a hippie to a second location.
Hi Shawn. There’s a typo there: your mom was superstitious (adjective), not superstition (noun). Have a great Sunday.
“16. TRIPPING OVER SOMETHING WAS BAD LUCK IN 19TH-CENTURY NEW ENGLAND.”
Not really a superstition, is it? Unless it’s also bad luck to, for instance, get hit in the head with a rock.
DOH! Thanks. Fixed now.