they interest me you see, and i believe in a lot of them.

Answer by Devil Drummer
god is a superstition
religion that involves the belieif in some higher beeing…

budisum is good… i like them.

Answer by Pixie
Well I don’t know what happens when you don’t do them, cos I always do! At the risk of sounding slightly mental….

- Don’t walk over three drains in a row
- If you’re giving a purse/wallet/handbag as a gift, always put a coin in it
- Don’t put new shoes on the table
- If you spill some salt, throw it over your left shoulder
- No breaking mirrors
- Always signal a magpie “Good Morning/Afternoon Mr Magpie”
- Don’t pick blackberries off the bushes after October
- Don’t cross on the stairs (or if you absolutely have to, cross your fingers)

What can I say, I had a warped childhood lol

Answer by WTFYW?LDG!
Bad luck to:

Sing at a table.
Have a black cat cross your path.
Break a mirror (7 years bad luck)
Yell or Curse loudly on Sun morning (brings curse upon self)
Hang a horse shoe with ends down. (lets all luck out).

That’s all I know.

Has anyone else broken a superstition with regrettable consequences?

Answer by Dharmanator
No doubt you were preoccupied with looking out for bad things happening, instead of thinking about parking in a legal spot, and remembering to put your wallet away.

Answer by Mr Lizard
Yes, I refused to perpetuate a lottery ticket/chain letter scam, and the person that sent it got all whiny about it.

Answer by Hieromedius
The Bible says not to swear. It doesn’t mean cussing, though that can hurt us too. It means taking an oath, or swearing to a person or organzation. Because if we have to break that oath, evil will come back on us. The Power of the Spoken Word, (sound), is a spiritual power. Our Creator spoke, and things came into being.

Answer by Alantis
give more detils!

Answer by Goodyear
Here’s a New York Time’s Article on all the 17th Century Superstitions:

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9500EFDA123EE333A25756C0A9629C94679ED7CF

Answer by Rin731
I believe in knocking on wood when I say something hasn’t happened yet…I believe in many little charms and things. Like a horseshoe for good luck, and iron and salt that will keep faeries away, and bowls of milk to appease them. I’m mostly into Wiccan/faerie charms.

Answer by Kaylee
Knocking on wood and throwing spilled salt over my shoulder are two that I do, mainly out of habit.

My mum is very suspicious, she gets terrified if a broom falls to the floor or a bird gets in the house, once she even stopped my brother from going out the back door, saying “go out the way you came in!”

Answer by stephanie
i dont know about all superstitiions cuz they all have their own origin….but i do know that some started back in the salem witch trials…the “witch” they would be burning would shout out somehting and people who say she was curseing them….i know that one of my relatives who was burned at the stake said she would return for the children of the ones who had her burned…and that she would only come for htem after they had kids so she could continue taking her vengance on the generations to come….and u can see by looking in the bloodlines some of the families never had children or would not allow their child to have children….

Answer by Mr. X
People want something to believe in and superstitions is something they “could” believe in and blame some of their problem on.

Answer by James B
Carl Jung called it synchronicity. Humans are hardwired to see patterns.

Answer by An0nym0us mAn1Ac
It is routine procedure that if the mother’s water hasn’t broken, the doctor will do it. Sometimes the mother might not even realize it.
I’ve never heard of that superstition.

Answer by los
ancient paganism

Answer by kalsflick
i too had the same as you my third son was born in his sack and the midwife told me also that he would be a good swimmer and never drown at sea, and it’s rare (we are talking 23 years ago here) and he turned out to be a very good swimmer and he’s still here! don’t know about the second sight though?

A belief repeatedly recorded from the 16th century to the present day is that when a baby is born with a caul covering the face (also called a ‘mask’, ‘veil’, or ‘sillyhow’), it must be kept for luck; whoever has one will never drown. This is a case of like-cures-like: ‘for as a caul is removed from the head of a newly born child to save it literally from being suffocated by moisture, it became regarded as a charm against drowning by any who carried one beneath their clothing’ (Lovett, 1925: 52). Formerly, cauls were often advertised for sale, for once sold they protected the new owner. In 1799, as much as 30 guineas was being asked, but prices fell steadily during the 19th century, and by the early 20th century had dropped to a few shillings, though rising to three or four pounds during the First World War (Forbes, 1966: 106-7).

Answer by Global Surveyor
lick the carpet 7 times 10 minutes before kick off. Then the backside of your best mate 2 times 1 minute before kickoff, then England will win

Answer by ashar/97
lmao…… are you and “global serveyor” mates or what lmao!!! mind you I did say Id cut my locks off if the ABs dont win the cup! damn it I now have short hair lmao!! lucky I didnt say Id stab myself in the heart!!
your probably not alone however you maybe sitting by yourself on the weekend due to three weeks of sheer sweat that jersey has endured!!!! lmao…….

Answer by Dacicus
I am very superstitious.
That’s why I don’t want to change the pattern: Every time when a team from southern hemisphere played the final in northern hemisphere, they won.

Answer by a.c
yes to have a poo before i go to work.

Answer by Sonderval
It depends on what you think is weird.

Answer by Vlasko
There are these people who believe in a magical being that listens to them and does them favors. Sometimes they gather in these buidings called churches and pray to it.

Answer by Lisa T
they used to put women in the river, if they didn’t drown then they were classed as a witch and then locked away, if they drowned then they were normal ladies. So you could never win.

Answer by samvimes
The ‘superstition’ was a fear that senior clerics instilled in the lower and middle classes as a way to prohibit woman from gaining social knowledge.

A woman of independance was branded a witch and the men were able to hold superiority.

Answer by g8bvl
Superstition 1 – Witches were able to fly ( this explained how witches could move quickly across impossible distances. A broomstick was then added to the superstition as these became common household articles used by women)

Superstition 2 – A witch was often portrayed as an old crone or hag ( with no man to defend her against accusations of witchcraft)

Superstition 3 – Witches are closely associated with living alone ( house in the wood)

Superstition 4 – Witches were known to keep animals like the Cat, Frog, Pig, Raven, Goat, Wolf, Goose, Crow, Bat and Mouse which were believed to be the forms adopted by a Witches Familiar (an evil spirit, in animal form, who was used by the witch to perform evil deeds and cast malevolent spells)

Superstition 5 – Witches brewed magic potions over a cauldron (Wise women had knowledge of herbs such as mandrake, datura, monkshood, cannabis, belladonna, henbane and hemlock).

the best though was if suspected of being a witch they were bound immersed in water, if they drowned they weren’t a witch though if they didn’t they were and consequently were burned at the stake or met some other grim end.

Answer by John S
You are correct

God is a figment of man’s imagination.

….If God is real show me just one shred of evidence that conclusively proves that

Answer by madeinnyest88
God bless you.

Answer by Pooka Bear
God is real. He died for you; none of this is stupid of childish.