1st of October today - saying white rabbit on the first of each month brings good luck!

Take the Superstitious test (http://www.emode.com/emode/tests/superstition.jsp)

Doesn't look like it. This is what it had to say about me:

You waste no energy on superstition. You won't even entertain the thought that crossing your fingers can really change your luck, or the number 13 contains some kind of curse. Congratulations, you have complete control over your own destiny.

Result.

You waste no energy on superstition. You won't even entertain the thought that crossing your fingers can really change your luck, or the number 13 contains some kind of curse. Congratulations, you have complete control over your own destiny.

My pater always says rabbits foot on the 1st of every month.:o

Your destiny has already been made up for you. Just look at Deja Vu.

You certainly don't let superstitions dictate your life! You know that crossing your fingers can't really change your luck, but you don't dismiss them completely either. Maybe you entertain them just for fun.

hmmmmmmm. The thing about the black cat was interesting - it was an american quiz wasn't it? It isn't bad luck over here for a black cat to cross your path!

Moon

Maybe you're not consumed by your superstitions, but you do get a little carried away sometimes. Do you really believe that crossing your fingers can change your fate, or has it just become a habit?

I'm sure I'd have had even worse results if I'd heard of some of them...

Never heard of holding your breath passing a cemetery, lifting your feet when driving over railways, or kissing your hand and touching the roof when you go through an amber light...

I hate that I'm superstitious, I just am!!

Just notice that the 13th of Feb is a Friday !!!

What do u do different on Friday 13th ? I tend to avoid roads, ladders etc more than usual. Some people just stay at home and ring in ill...

The other day I was offered some crisps at work and the pack was opened at the bottom. At school we used to say it was more unlucky than breaking a mirror ! No-one at work has heard that one before. Maybe I just went to a weird school ???

What school did you go to:loopy:

The only superstition I have is when i'm playing basketball I have a lucky wrist band that I wear on my left wrist all the time, I was once late out of the changing room as I thought I had lost it!

They say it's unlucky to die on a Friday.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
They say it's unlucky to die on a Friday.

i'd say its pretty unlucky to die any day.

Originally posted by Sam Miguel
They say it's unlucky to die on a Friday.

You should build a time machine so you can skip fridays with your luck:P

If I had a time machine I'd jump into the future, see what the lottery numbers are going to be on Wednesday, then come back to now, and nip up the shop and put my numbers on... WHOOPEE! I'd be quids in :D

It's cheating I know, but I need to win somehow! I've been playing the lottery since day 1 and never won anything more than a tenner except once when I won 20 quid on a scratch card.

I must be odd, friday 13th has always been quite a lucky day for me, very odd.

As for superstitions, any shoes, not just news hoes, put on a table is death knell in my house, you might as well kill yourself them.

We've blamed earthquakes in china on my dad putting shoes on the table.

Wilf

My mum was born on a Friday 13th, so it can't be that unlucky, if it wasn't for Friday 13th of May 1949 I wouldn't be here.

This is covered here with a test you can take (http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?threadid=3420)

Originally posted by Rich
If I had a time machine I'd jump into the future, see what the lottery numbers are going to be on Wednesday, then come back to now, and nip up the shop and put my numbers on... WHOOPEE! I'd be quids in :D



Not to sound to greedy but i'd be kinda p*** if i won the lotto on a wednesday,unless it was a roll over of course.Don't get me wrong,i'd love to win it,i would just prefer to win it on a saturday.

Thanks for pointing that out John. Hence, threads merged.

Last year I set off in the car with 3 mates for a short journey. It was quite icey on the roads, cos it was during the really cold spell last winter.
As I set off up the road, a white cat dashed across the road a few yards ahead.

I jokingly said that it must mean good luck (being the opposite to black cat = bad luck).

Later that day I avoided 2 possibly major crashes.

The next time I saw a black cat cross my path ahead I turned the car around and went the other way to avoid it.

How superstitious is that?!

The other day I was offered some crisps at work and the pack was opened at the bottom. At school we used to say it was more unlucky than breaking a mirror ! No-one at work has heard that one before. Maybe I just went to a weird school ???

We used to say if you opened your crisps the wrong way up, you were in love.... then you got pestered all lunchtime and afternoon about who you were in love with.... lol!

Well it's Friday the 13th, do you just treat this as just a normal day of the year or do you stay indoors to avoid any "accidents"?:wow:
Is anyone is this day and age still superstitious about Friday the 13th?





The Knights Templar
When the Pope ordered the arrest of all the Knights Templar - a Christian military order - in France on 13 October 1307, around 2,000 were killed. The day was then declared evil, and this is thought to be the origin of Friday the 13th's reputation.

I walk under ladders so no I am not superstitious saying that though I am looking or a new car at the moment and since I have had two written off by no fault of my own and they were both red - perhaps I shouldn't buy another red car!!! :suspect:

If anyone has a Mondeo about 2 or 3 years old for sale let me know - as long as it's not red ofcourse!!!:hihi:

Well I treat this day slightly different to others....as it is my birthday!!

I think I was actually 13 on Friday 13th and I am still here...woo hoo!

The Templar's theory is what I'd heard as well.

There's also the fact that there were 13 at the Last Supper and that 'Good Friday' is the traditional Christian day for the commemoration of the Crucifixion - I wonder if they have any impact?

I have to take a project live today - we're going to beard the dragon by doing the switch over at 13:13 hours. I'll let you know whether I'm superstitious or not this evening!!

But I will be taking care when I'm out!

Joe

No, I am neither religious nor superstitious.

Originally posted by bondy
Well I treat this day slightly different to others....as it is my birthday!!

I think I was actually 13 on Friday 13th and I am still here...woo hoo!

Happy birthday bondy! :partyhat: :clap:

Not at all superstitious. Where's the link between breaking a mirror and bad luck? Not that I believe in 'luck' per se.

The only concession I make towards superstions is touching my brow to a lone magpie - It's getting like some kid of OCD where I'm convinced that if I don't do it then something crap'll happen.
However if i see two of them then I'm in fairly bouyant spirits as I feel like like I have a good day ahead.

I'll also pick up a penny if I see one, I'm not sure if this is an atempt to gain more good luck or general miserlyness.

I'm not superstitious, it's just a remenant of a less scientific age when people believed anything you told them.

For some reason i can't have my car stereo volume on 13, it annoys me

:partyhat: Happy Birthday Bondy :clap:

Like Swan_Vesta I too salute magpies, I have no real reason for doing that, but it's a reflex thing with me. I see a magpie and instintively say out loud, "Good Morning Mr Magpie", silly I know, it could be a Mrs Magpie :blush:

I don't avoid walking under ladders and the black cat crossing your path scenario, I'm never wary of that :lol:

Friday the 13th, does conjure up an image of bad luck, but I don't actually know why?

Weird, I don't consider myself supersticious, but ...

- I don't walk under ladders or them large road signs.
- I do believe people with ginger hear are evil and practice witchcraft (héhéhé only half joking).
- I don't like black cats.

I found a website about superstitions: Old Superstitions (http://www.oldsuperstitions.com/)

I mainly only have that thing about walking underladders...

No, I don't subscribe to any of that rubbish associated with Friday the 13th. However, I do have my preferences on certain things that make me feel at ease. For instance, when I was boxing I always wanted to be in the red corner and for some reason always felt uneasy in the blue corner.

i am not superstitious as i believe its bad luck to be superstitious:loopy: :heyhey:

I don't think its a remnant of a bygone age Nick2. I reckon people are as superstitious as ever, even if they have no religious or folk beliefs to hang their superstitions on. Lots of people have lucky numbers, lucky clothing (I had a friend once who owned a 'pulling waistcoat') and conversely unlucky numbers or days of the week.
We like to think our lives are in control and superstition offers us a semblance of that. Even if we 'know' its daft, we may have an item of clothing we wore once to an exam we did well in, and so wear it again "for luck." And if that gives people confidence they might otherwise not have had, then good for them.
However, if superstition starts dictating peoples' lives then that's not quite such a good thing.

Well, I said I'd mention how I got on today and our system went live with few (so far) problems although we have a little tidying to do on Monday morning.

I think this was due more to the skills of my development team than any luck or otherwise, though!

But, I did touch wood.... :)

Joe

Ooer Matron :heyhey:
You'll go blind :cool: !

I'm not superstitious but don't walk under ladders. You don't know what the bloke up the ladder is going to drop.

will anyone not walk under ladders,avoid cracked paving slabs,get upset if a black cat crosses your path,etc etc.

just curious.

john.

I don't open umbrellas in the house or put new shoes on a table....:suspect:

I dont believe in any sort of supertition whatsover personally.

I'm not, it's bad luck.

I'll never be so dumb as to be superstitious... Touch wood.

I never belive in any superstition at all.
But my siss has something about blackbirds and crows. If she see's more then two together she ask who with her to look at the birds too then she and the other person wont have back luck for the rest of the day :loopy:

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds". - Edmund Burke

Guess i'm feeble minded then as i'm the most superstitious person i know!!

I feel really uncomfortable for the rest of the day if i walk across an odd number of drains, walk under a ladder etc...

I also have a thing about royal mail vans that my great grandma passed on to me...

All my friends are so used to me whinging at them to touch red, cross themselves, turn anti clockwise, they just do it automatically now to save them the earache!

ooo ooo pick me pick me im feeble minded! :hihi: hehe

not really. If there is a ladder there I will atempt to walk around it (why take chances eh?)

...........although.....i do walk underneath scaffoldings.....

Originally posted by FilthFan
...........although.....i do walk underneath scaffoldings.....

so do I . more to do with things falling off said scaffolding than anything else:D

pah to all that! i'll go out my way to do those things just to prove its a load of tosh.

same with ghosts and god.... if they exsist....then come haunt me or hit me with a lightning bolt.....




....

im still here

point proved :) haha

Where do all the superstitions stem from?

I know people that watch every step they take as it considered bad luck to walk on the crack between the paving :confused:

http://www.spellsandmagic.com/omens.html

theres so more nonsense for you

Originally posted by robbie
not really. If there is a ladder there I will atempt to walk around it (why take chances eh?)
I do that, but ony for the reason that if there's someone up the ladder and they accidentally drop something, you might get hit. That is probably where the superstition came from anyway.

i once walked under a ladder,looked up at the bloke,tripped on a cracked paving slab,and squashed a black cat:heyhey:










only kidding:clap:

john:D .

Well my mum and nan used to ram superstition down my throat, and I suppose I started to believe it.
I am older and wiser now its just old wife's tales.

Do you believe in superstition?

http://www.globalpsychics.com/lp/superstition/menu.htm

dont belive in any......its pap and i'd happily take on any test to disprove any :)

line up the ladders i'll walk under them, while stepping on cracks while dropping mirrors along the way.

I don't believe in superstitions. Although I have been known to use the phrase 'touch wood', it's more out of habit. I don't actually believe that something unfortunate will happen to me if I don't touch a piece of wood at the appropriate time.

Yep, its a load of crap. I dont believe in ANY superstitions, as Mtheo, I would hppily walk under a line of ladders and step on cracks etc.

Yep, its a load of crap.....
That's just the sort of open-minded attitude we need on the forum...:rolleyes: ;)

Superstitions, probably not

Old wives tales, hmmm different kettle of fish, so possibly.

Good article if you want to base your beliefs on something solid though:

http://www.sacredspiral.com/books/knowlson.pdf

That's just the sort of open-minded attitude we need on the forum...:rolleyes: ;)
open mind = brains fall out :hihi:

Superstitions, probably not

Old wives tales, hmmm different kettle of fish, so possibly.

Good article if you want to base your beliefs on something solid though:

http://www.sacredspiral.com/books/knowlson.pdf
That's an interesting document, although a did a double-take when I read this in the section about sneezing:
Among peoples who have not emerged from savagery, or whose intellectual equipment, in spite of contact with superior races...
before I realised it was written in 1910.

This (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0141006730/ref=pd_sim_b_dp_3/203-0926285-2267906)is a good book on the subject too, and it has a pretty cat on the cover.

I don't believe in superstitions. Although I have been known to use the phrase 'touch wood', it's more out of habit. I don't actually believe that something unfortunate will happen to me if I don't touch a piece of wood at the appropriate time.

Yes I know what you mean about touching wood, I do it myself even though I know it's not going to stop bad things happening.

Am I superstitious? No, it's bad luck.

When ever I see a black cat I have bad luck. my daughter salute,s magpie,s if I did that every time I saw one I would crash

I believe in superstitions, but there are lots of the out there, I touch wood to prevent a bad thing spoken coming true. and i always salute any single magpie and say "good morning Mister Jack Robinson" to prevent bad luck, Even on the bus. I would never dream of walking under a ladder and i'll go out of my way to make sure a black cat walk's infront of me rather than behind.

I always saluted magpie's until one day when i was 16. I'd had a bad day and saw a magpie and thought things couldn't get any worse, so i swore at it instead. When i got in i recieved a call from my first love saying he was ending our year and a half relationship. So from then on and now 21 i continued to salute and say good morning!!

Superstitions are only real because you make them real. If you belive that walking under a ladder will bring you bad luck, then you will seek out that bad luck (subconciously if not consciously) when you do walk under it. Even if it is 2 weeks before a bad thing happens, you will say "Ah, it is because I walked under that ladder two weeks ago!"

Friday 13th is a terrible superstition! I'm sure quite a few people worry about all the bad things that will happen then, and indeed on 13th in general. Here's a couple of terrible things that happened to me....

Friday 13th September 1996 - met a girl
5 years later to the very day, on 13th September - married her!!!
Still going strong, with 1 wonderful son and another child on way.

Man...life is terrible! Oh...hold on....erm...must be some bad there....nope!

In addition the number 13 has won me more money on the lottery than any of my other numbers (I choose it due to anniversary and it has been part of each 4 number win I have had)

No doubt if I had thought Friday 13th unlucky, the relationship wouldn't have lasted long as I would be seeking reasons for it to fail.

no not really but everytime i post on the forum i touch my toes first (:) lol)

One of my best friends is OBSESSIVELY superstitious.

I socialise with like-minded people in general, people with a similar level of intellect - Although his superstitious nature makes me doubt that!

He complains when I say things like " We should go up this season" (about Sheff Utd)... His argument is:
If we don't go up this season, it will be because you jinxed us.

Absolutely anything. If I say something positive about ANYTHING, he says I am tempting fate.

I wish i could curse. It's annoying me even thinking about it.

Superstition? What a pile of proverbial poo. :loopy:


Edit - PPN, before you say anything, I'm not narrow minded about anything, in general. Superstition is the exception. ;)

Only a very small piece of the brain is used ,with great untapped power so if one believes it can happen,it can happen,one only as to read the many deaths or cures atributed to superstious ideas. i know every football star rubs is lucky emblem on his head while doing the dance on one foot,without which he wouldn't play worth a darn.

...
Edit - PPN, before you say anything, I'm not narrow minded about anything, in general. Superstition is the exception. ;)
Eh? Twas a joke, based on me saying much the same thing as Spyro but about horoscopes and being accused of the same thing :) .

I believe that in some parts of the country it is considered to be very unlucky if a man marries his widow's sister.

come on what are you supersticious about,got any unusual ones.

im not supersticious at all

i believe if you believe in supersticians then thats where the trouble lies, you make things go wrong by believing they will

when you have had your hair cut dont throw it outside cause the birds will use it in their nests.this is supposed to be a bad omen.maybe cause birds are supposed to be unlucky.

My nan is shocking - she won't cut her nails on Friday / Monday, won;t have pictures of birds or elephants in the house etc etc

Do you have any superstitions?

Old Tony Milch comes to mind.