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Strange BearsWe just finished school holidays here, on the last day I baked a cake with my 6 year old. After adding the eggs, I as usual put the broken egg shells down and smashed them flat. Lara asked my why I did this.....I was almost embarrassed to admit this. As a child her age I read a book where witches and goblins used half egg shells as boats and went outside the harbour to create storms and stop sailors from getting home and/or trying to sink their shops. From that day forward I made Mum smash any egg shells and later I did too. Despite the fact that I am now 47. I checked with Mum today and she still smashed the eggs shells too......though she had forgotten the reason as to why she did.
Does anyone else have hangover superstitions from childhood?
Posts: 3,177NEVER PUT NEW SHOES ON THE TABLE!!!!!
DIRE CONSEQUENCES WILL ENSUE - BE WARNED!
Or at least that's what my Mum and most of my friends told me yaers ago and i have avoided putting new shoes on the table top ever since...................it's OK to put crappy, smelly OLD shoes on the table apparently but probably not very hygenic.
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Penny 
Those are probably with weirdest ones I have heard of. I only have the usual ones like don't walk under ladders and always get out of bed the same side you get in!!!
MerBear OriginalsFunny...I was just thinking about superstitions. I asked my German friend to get me a couple of Wusthof knives. She wouldn't let me pay full-price for them but I still had to give her $5 cause you can't gift knives. It's the same here - if you give something sharpe to someone you should get at least a penny in return. If you give a wallet - make sure it has a dollar in it.
If I visit a good friend of mine I have to make sure I leave by the same door I came in from or else she'll make me go back inside. :crackup:
Marion
WienNo shoes on our tables! Duhe! :doh: ...dirty or new...that is baaaaaaad luck!
And you should never give away a pearl necklace- have the person pay a wee amout at least. Otherwise: a tear for each pearl will drop!!! 
Gaby 
Strange BearsSorry Lisa......I started the superstition when older and single that if there was a good looking guy beside me in bed........I got out of bed his side....just so I could crawl over him........ :crackup: :crackup: :crackup:
Cala Bear DenYES! That's a big one for me too "NO SHOES ON THE TABLE" (slippers, pullons etc....) and no opening an umbrella in the house is another one. I think i've infected my kids with so many... as i got most of mine from my mom. We're German and German's have a superstition for everything.
You can't gift shoes either, that's bad luck.
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Bears by JodiMom always said always leave the house with clean underwear !!
And I was always afraid of the neighbors because she would say "What would the neighbors think !! "
And never open an unbrella in the house... BAD LUCK !!
7 years bad luck to break a mirror.
And Step on a crack and break your mothers back ( when walking on the side walk).
A cat will take a babies breath away.
Ummmmmmmmmm I will keep thinking 
I am sure I have a ton of them !!!
Swan Valley BearsPut on both socks then both shoes; never a sock and shoe same foot, then the other. That would be bad luck. What's with the shoe thing anyway???? Also, my grandmother always made us pay a nickel for a knife. Hmm, I gave my mom a really good knife for Christmas last year. I don't think I collected the nickel. Whoops.
I'm not terribly superstitious, but I still can't bring myself to open an umbrella indoors ... but thinking about it, why would I need to? :crackup:
When we were kids we always held our collar if we saw an ambulance ... I have no idea why!
Bears by JodiI'm not terribly superstitious, but I still can't bring myself to open an umbrella indoors ... but thinking about it, why would I need to? :crackup:
When we were kids we always held our collar if we saw an ambulance ... I have no idea why! :P
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Made ME laugh !!!
MerBear OriginalsMom always said always leave the house with clean underwear !!
That's because if you get in an accident you'd be embarrassed if you had on dirty underwear. When my husband was a boy he'd gone to camp and took ill (appendicitus). They had to rush him to the hospital. He not only had on less than clean underwear but two different coloured socks. His mother was furious with him!
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Marion
Posts: 3,540The only ones I can think of is spilt salt... if I happen to spill salt, I always take a pinch and chuck it over my shoulder. Each time I think this is stupid because then I'll just have to get the broom and dustpan and clean it up, but I feel wrong if I don't.
And I always say 'gezundheit' (even if I can't spell it 
) when someone sneezes...I can't help it, its been pounded into me by my Mum. Even a stranger's cough will elicit the same response.
WienDebbie, yes, the over-the-shoulder-salt-throwing-ritual is mine, too :crackup:
Maybe this comes from a time, when salt was soooooooo expensive and just affordable for the richest....
Gaby
Patsy Lake BearsPaula that was something we did as kids in England and don't you say .Touch my collar, touch my nose I hope I don't go in one of those. Find a penny pick it up and all day you have good luck.
Strange BearsI know about throwing the salt of the shoulder.....the devil stood at that shoulder urging trouble so if you threw salt it went in his eyes and of course he ran away,,,,,,,
Posts: 3,540Hmmm....no, Mom never said anything that detailed about the Devil and the salt...she simply said if you don't do it, its bad luck....so I believed her! :crackup:
Tami Eveslage Original Teddy BearsThese are funny. I'm not really supersticious, but I remember a childhood friend telling me you should hold your breath when you walk or drive past a graveyard. When I asked her why she said, "It's not polite to breathe when others can't!" :crackup:
dusty attic bearsHi , It`s magpies for me.
1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl, 4 for a boy, 5 for silver, 6 for gold, 7 for a story never to be told.
Every time I see 1 magpie I have to salute and say "morning mr maggatie" to stop the sorrow from coming my way.Silly I know , but I`ve done it forever and would feel weird to stop. :crackup:
Swan Valley BearsThere's been a cricket on the stairs in the house the last two days. I haven't been able to bring myself to touch it because I remember something about a cricket being good luck. Even my dogs are ignoring it. Does anyone remember anything about that?
Penny, oh my gosh, what is that on your post??? You find the wierdest stuff. I love it.
Country BearsI know all of these apart from the eggshell one - but funnily enough heard about it on the radio this morning!! My nan's very superstitious, in fact all these you have all mentioned I can hear her saying now..... She has some funny sayings, I think they're fascinating. Have any of you heard 'N'er cast a clout 'til May is out'?? And a broken mirror, seven years bad luck?
Oh and I never kill a money spider....hasn't worked yet but you never know :crackup: :crackup:
We always put money in a purse if giving as a gift for good luck.
Pumpkin & Pickle BearsI still won't walk over 3 drains...it's bad luck apparently. I also won't let James open his umbrella indoors!
Charlotte Des Roches DesignsOK...here is one for all of you...how about..."a stitch in time saves nine" ever heard that one???? Sounds like a good one for all here
Hugs &
Swan Valley BearsHmm, "a stitch in time saves nine". I've heard it a gazillion times, but . . . . what does that really mean? Saves nine what?
Bears by Jodi
