superstitious?

[sunflower68]

I am happy to walk under ladders, I won't have any problems leaving the house today and I don't have any lucky heather. However I won't put shoes on the table as it is 'unlucky'. Are you superstitious?

[Booldawg]

Very good question considering what day it is today! I refuse to modify my behaviour based upon 'old wives tales' Its crazy!

[laurence2]

in a word ''NO''

if your unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, so be it, i don't think today is no different to any other day, yes someone will either Die or get injured, but this is just par for the course.

I'll go as far to say,that someone will be very lucky today ie unexpected windfall their way, or someone will just have the Midas touch, its just another day, its the media & TV that know doubt will put doubt into peoples minds ie stepping out of the front door etc

[cameo]

I'm not superstitious at all.

I had to think about it and then realised the reason i couldn't think of any thing i do is because there isn't anything!!
If that makes sense!

Hadn't realised before!

[stylinsam]

yes very superstitious (sp)

haha stevie wonder sung that ^^^

no really i am really really superstitious, i hate seeing one magpie i never walk under ladders, and i dont wear new shoes on a friday as that is "Bad Luck "

i dont think i actually believe in superstitions, but just to make sure i never walk under ladders etc... etc,,,

[cascarelli]

I dont have a problem with friday 13th but i dont like to see scissors left open on a table - my mum told me that was superstitious but i'm not sure?!!

[China Doll]

Not overly fond of lone magpies but don't really go out of my way to avoide anything.

[makemesmile]

No, I'm not superstitious at all. But I do have a friend who spits everytime she see's a magpie - most unseemly!

As kids, we couldn't bring an open umbrella into the house, couldn't put new shoes on the table, couldn't bring lilacs (flowers) into the house, weren't allowed to cross on the stairs, or leave knives crossed. It's amazing I'm not totally cracked!

[-Zorro-]

Im governed by the number 7

[Champagne]

I�m superstitious but I�ve no idea why. I just find myself doing silly things like avoiding ladders, opening an umbrella indoors (why would you do that anyway?), putting new shoes on tables, if I find a penny outside of my home I put it in my purse, I have a horseshoe over my garden shed door (to keep burglars at bay), planting rosemary at my garden gate etc.

But then I�m not bothered about passing somebody on the stairs and I don�t throw spilt salt over my shoulder. So it�s rather selective really.

I don�t think it�s something I live by. It�s just force of habit!

[makemesmile]

I remember an aunt giving me a purse as a present and finding a shiny new tuppence in it. my mum said that she'd have put it in because it's unlucky to give an empty purse to someone.

[RATTER15]

I find the whole idea of all this superstitious stuff a lot of rubbish, and very irritated by the fact that people are so gullible to believe it all!!!I I always walk under ladders, etc.

I once done some work in a small but very busy thoroughfare in a large city, my work involved, erecting a ladder right over the lane, from the moment we erected the ladder, people stopped using the lane, people even asked us to move the ladder to let them through, specifically because because it was bad luck to walk under it, even though there was no one up the ladder, I of course refused!! silly nonsense!!

[Carakeel]

Morning all! No, I am not superstitious. Life is too precious to waste time worrying about silly superstitions that have been made up by someone often hundreds of years ago and handed down over the generations. Being too careful about things can actually lead to accidents. I witnessed a 10 year old boy once who avoided walking under a ladder in a shopping mall, he carefully walked around it and straight into a lamp post. Huge bulge on rather sore head! The boy was my son. I had always told him these superstitions were rubbish. But would he listen? So no - I think the short time we have on this planet is far too precious to be governed by superstitions. We should always be responsible and safe but not superstitious!

[makemesmile]

Some can be fun though - even useful. I once read that it's lucky to sleep on un-ironed bed sheets - now that's my kind of superstition! : )

[happy_face]

It's strange how we will believe anything. I moved to the UK 12 years ago and hadn't heard of half the superstitions that you have here so in my previous non UK life I'd never had a problem with Magpies and so why would I now. Superstitions is only in the eye of the beholder and nothing happens.Otherwise there'd be a mass of unlucky people 24/7 as the whole world don't have the same suspicions.

Saying that, I don't walk under ladders but that's mostly due to logic as something could quite easily fall on your head.