Walking under ladders, broken mirrors, black cats crossing your path and all that malarkey. I can't stop myself saluting magpies. Must be some strange ones in TLB world.
Walking under ladders…. common sense. New shoes on table…. ??? … but I don’t do it, just in case. Friday the 13th … I wouldn’t not do something on that day, but I wouldn’t purposefully set out to do something either.
I've heard that it's bad luck to walk under a ladder whilst breaking a mirror, ignoring some magpies and kicking a black cat that crosses your path. Whilst you are at it, always put a coin into a new purse that you give as a gift, and always pay something for a knife that you are given....and don't put your new shoes on the table!
I tend not to walk under ladders without looking up first. But I am an ex scaffolder. Never been worried about stepping on cracks in pavements, although it is a lot more dangerous to do that in America, without looking first. I don’t find the number 13 unlucky, and bad things don’t come in 3’s, as if you wait a bit, the forth bad thing will be along sooner or later… it might not just be as bad as the first 3. And I’m a Capricorn too.
Don't put your umbrella up in the house New Year's Day - First person to go in the house should be dark haired and takes a lump of coal and a loaf with them.
A superstition that my mother always used to adhere to, many years ago,as a nurse, in the days when they had ward matrons, was never to bring red and white flowers into the wards as it was bad luck because it represented blood on the sheets. Dunno if anyone else knows that one.
I have had that with colour combinations gardening. Have had a few give a resounding no to that colour combination.
Snowdrops in the house bringing bad luck is another horticultural one. White lilies apparently push the limits of people's mortality at times. There's a whole world of lore regarding flowers and their meanings but it depends what country you are in.
Interesting. White Lilies always seem to be a ‘funeral flower’. Their scent is very heavy. Not keen on them.
Pagans, I imagine . More believable than a lot of stuff these days, as their beliefs are on actual physical things that exist.
