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Superstitions

The document discusses various superstitions about luck, including unlucky and lucky omens related to walking under ladders, breaking mirrors, magpies, spilling salt, opening umbrellas indoors, the number 13, putting new shoes on tables, passing people on stairs, meeting black cats, touching wood, horseshoes, catching falling leaves, haircuts and the moon, money in new clothes, wedding traditions, dropped cutlery predicting visitors, crossed cutlery foretelling arguments, and leaving tablecloths overnight.

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Superstitions

The document discusses various superstitions about luck, including unlucky and lucky omens related to walking under ladders, breaking mirrors, magpies, spilling salt, opening umbrellas indoors, the number 13, putting new shoes on tables, passing people on stairs, meeting black cats, touching wood, horseshoes, catching falling leaves, haircuts and the moon, money in new clothes, wedding traditions, dropped cutlery predicting visitors, crossed cutlery foretelling arguments, and leaving tablecloths overnight.

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Bad Luck

Unlucky to walk underneath a ladder.

Seven years bad luck to break a mirror.

Unlucky to see one magpie, lucky to see two, etc..

Unlucky to spill salt. If you do, you must throw it over your
shoulder to prevent bad luck.

Unlucky to open an umbrella in doors.

The number thirteen is unlucky. Friday the thirteenth is a very


unlucky day.

Unlucky to put new shoes on the table.

Unlucky to pass someone on the stairs.

Good Luck
Lucky to meet a black cat. Black Cats are featured on many good
luck greetings cards and birthday cards in England.

Lucky to touch wood. We touch; knock on wood, to make


something come true.

A horseshoe over the door brings good luck. But the


horseshoe needs to be the right way up. The luck
runs out of the horseshoe if it is upside down.

Catch falling leaves in Autumn and you're have good luck.


Every leaf means a lucky month next year.

Cut your hair when the moon is between a new and full moon
and you'll have good luck.

Putting money in the pocket of new clothes and


handbags/purses/wallets brings good luck.

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Wedding Superstitions
Bride and groom must not meet on the day of the wedding except
at the altar.

The bride should never wear her complete wedding clothes before
the day.

For good luck the bride should wear “something borrowed,


something blue, something old and something new”.

The husband should carry his new wife over the threshold of their
home.

Table Superstitions
If you drop a table knife expect a male visitor, if you drop a fork a
female visitor.

Crossed cutlery on your plate - expect an arguement.

Leave a white tablecloth on a table overnight and expect a death.

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