Karma is very real

Fortune Cookies don't count for shit

I never close a knife that was opened by someone else

when i take money and put it into the register i face it all the same way and i always take the first bill ontop no matter what cuz if you skip like you are trying to give them a crisper dollar its bad luck. coins face up are good luck, i never ever pick up change on tails cuz its very bad luck. also salt over the left shoulder if you spill any. cant think of any more right now oh ya and for me i have to count things and even eat the same amount of foods like 2 chips or 4 tomatoes ya know

I don't have any (serious) superstitions, and I'm not about to get into an argument on karma v. dogma right now.. besides, that would belong elsewhere. What superstitions I do hold, are limited to: 1. Don't run with a knife held at throat level, and 2. you can't play Calvinball the same way twice.

its way too early for all of this!

I could "say" I dont believe in superstitions but...

I still wont..
open an umbrella inside
cross knives
mend clothes while Im wearing them
walk under a ladder
pass anyone on a stair case (If I can at all avoid it)
kill ladybugs
kill spiders

and I DO
lift my feet going over rail road tracks in a car
hold my breath passing a graveyard
eat blackeyed peas on new years
have all my christmas decorations down by new years eve
give knives back the way they were handed to me

I think there are some others but I dont recall them at the moment....both my grandmothers were extremely superstitious women and I had those ingrained in me in a very early age

i am a superstitous man it has to do alote with were i live here in Texas i have seen some pritty strange things and the blood moon is a verry old superstition in witch i belive in firmly i have chanced the blood moon on sevral ocasions and nothing good has ever come of it have you ever had that erie felling like something bad is fixing to happen but u cant figure out what it is or that someone is watching you but know one is there it makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up and the skin on your face tighten up that is a verry comin thing here people that live here are all superstitous

The boogie man is definitely for real!

Being Friday the 13th (thank you Templar Knights) I thought that I would give this thread a bump and hopefully learn some more about TFP'ers.

I'm not superstitious about most things, I giggle at black cats, but won't walk under ladders because I'm a klutz and it's faster to go around them. I wonder about broken mirrors but don't stress, I don't think I've ever broken one anyway. Probably the worst that I do is get nervous when my horoscope seemed right that day. How about everybody else?

Hmm, I heard you should never destroy a picture of someone.

I was mad at my brother when I tore his photo up... and he killed himself about one month later...

I wonder, but I think it was coincidental...

the only thing i have heard about the color of the moon that has anything to do with the color red is this "Red sky in the morning, saliors warning. Red sky at night, sailors delight." translated, if the sky is red in the morning, there will be a storm, if the sky (or moon) is red at night, there won't be a storm.....

I’m not a superstitious person I’ve never really had anything happen to make me believe otherwise. Though I do think about it like say if a black cat crosses in front of me I’ll joke with myself about it in my head. Between my circle of friends I’d say most of them believe in some.

I won't give someone a wallet or purse as a gift without giving money in it.
I don't kill spiders.
I make wishes on everything.

I think superstitions are unlucky.

If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all... so broken mirrors don't bother me any... Stepping on cracks doesn't bother me.... Someone pointed out to me that I did this one... which was pretty funny when I explained why i did it...

You must hold your breath while going past a cemetery or you will breathe in the spirit of someone who has recently died.


The ones I do beleive in :
Nothing new should be worn to a funeral, especially new shoes. (I don't know why, I just was always told this

When I bought my bed a few years ago, the person who was setting it up, told me it had to face north, because if it faced south, I'd face nothing but misfortune... (I really need to get a compass and check to see if my bed is facing south)

Some of my favorite mom'isms

Dropping an umbrella on the floor means that there will be a murder in the house. (No umbrellas were allowed in the house, they were all out in the garage)

Dropping silverware causes company. Drop a spoon and the company will be female, drop a fork and the company will be male. Dropping a knife causes a disappointment.

You clink glasses of alcohol to scare the demon out of the alcohol.

If your right ear itches, someone is speaking well of you.

If your left ear itches, someone is speaking ill of you.

Ooooh just remembered one.. I don't remember where this one came from, but it's always been in my head - Supposedly a cricket in the house brings good luck... A few years back, a former aquaintance of mine was having a pretty shitty life...too many kids, no job, blah blah... as part of a joint christmas gift, I included a brass hearth cricket... and not soon after, she got a job, moved to a nicer house, got the car of her dreams... still with her same shitty attitude - I think it was a mighty powerful cricket.

I gave a similar cricket to another friend who also had some good things happen to them...

I have a bit of a fear of jinxing things, sometimes I knock on wood but mostly if there's something good I hope will happen I avoid talking about it. I get a bit nervous when I see shoes on a table too.
Theatre folks are horribly superstitious, which pisses me off sometimes. There was this theatre where the stage hands had special rituals concerning the theatre ghost and told us stories of bad things that had happened when someone had angried the ghost... spotlights falling down on stage during performances and such. When I climbed up in the rafters I saw the reason. The place was a security inspector's nightmare. I've never seen such a mess. No wonder stuff fell down, but they blamed the ghost.

For the record, if you want to see a big tough stagehand turn white with fear, just whistle on stage. :D