Superstitions

This probably would have been a good thread for Friday the 13th, but I didn't think of it till now. I searched and didn't see one already started, so here it is.

Today my nose is extremely itchy. Way more itchy than ever. I remember someone (my mom?) telling me that if my nose was itchy it meant I was going to get into a fight. I don't remember it ever coming true before and I surely hope it does not come true now. I am sure there is a logical explanation to my itchy nose, like allergies or something. But it makes me wonder and be a little bit more aware of things around me.

Do you believe in any superstitions? Have any superstitions that you thought couldn't possibly be true ever come true?

 

No. I am not superstitious.

In fact, I believe that If I allow myself to think that a rabbit's foot, or a 'special hat' etc will make me 'win' at specific activities, then if I lose or mislay it, the trauma will put me off my game and make me do badly.

Therefore I avoid making such totemistic attachments.
I know that things will go wrong if I make such totemistic attachments.

I just remembered: Things will also Go Wrong if I fail to wash last night's plates and get the teabag and sugar in my mug before the water's boiled.

OK. I am superstitious.

 

Interesting, CoffeeBee as my mom, who I'd categorize as moderately superstitious told me an itchy nose meant you were coming into money!
I have one superstition. Unfortunately, it encompasses about every situation imaginable.
It's the 'knock wood' superstition.
An example was last night, whilst walking the dogs with spouse we were remarking upon how the snow has yet again melted nearly completely; on top of that we have had relatively little snow at all. Not normal for the Chicago area. I mused that this winter seems like its not only heading for the designation of having above normal temperatures but below normal precipitation. I immediately regretted saying that, believing that now we will get our collective asses kicked with winter weather.

There's no logic here beyond the fact that majority of times when I make pronouncements on matters things turn out the exact opposite way. It goes beyond that: if someone asks for example, how (my eldest son) is doing and I say really well, inevitably nearly immediately that status turns around 180 degrees.

Yep, I'm superstitious.

 

I always heard itchy nose meant you were going to get company and itchy hands meant money. I don't believe any of it, but I've heard most of them, coming from superstitious people.

 

I've also heard itchy nose=company. And itchy or burning ears mean someone's talking about you (or maybe you aren't very good at using a curling iron.)

I'm superstitious to a point. There are things I do for superstitious reasons, but I don't REALLY think anything will happen if I don't do them...mostly The list includes throwing salt over my shoulder when I spill it; never lighting three things off one match (cigs specifically, but it follows through to incense and candles); kissing the ceiling when I drive through a yellow light; and knocking on wood.

 

I'm superstitious to a point.... I don't step on cracks for some odd reason and I've done that for a very long time... and now its become more habit than superstition. When I play hockey, I usually only wear white socks over my shin pads.... but apart from all that its all just the mental game for me.

 

I'm not superstitious ... but why take chances?

 

I'm not even slightly superstitious.

 

I would like to be not even slightly superstitious.
However the best I can do is be a bit so in re: what I say.
I will walk under ladders, I do no salt-throwing over my shoulder, don't avoid black cats, I put up the new year's calendar a day before (bad luck) and I'll open an umbrella inside the house. Also, I never gave a thought to putting money in the 2 wallets I recently gifted (it's good luck to do so) and I don't fish the air bubbles out of my tea with a spoon (bad luck to let them dissipate on their own).
Growing up, I got admonished for doing such things and many more and not in a jokey way. I got yelled at. So. I try.

 

I was told as a youngster, that if I ate the crust on the bread my hair would get curly. Well, I have corkscrew curls!

Now baseball players are a different story. They do some really weird things to win a game or not win a game. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseball_superstition

 

Not walking under ladders is actually more of a good idea from a safety perspective than some kind of magical thing. I've accidentally dropped lots of stuff from the tops of ladders that would have hurt if someone had been walking under at the time.

 

I would have much preferred company or money yesterday, instead of what I got. By the end of the day, I was having a fight with a coworker (yes, THAT coworker. We all know he is an ass). Coincidence? Would it have happened even if my nose was not itchy? Probably. This will not change my mind though, I am still not superstitious. It was just freaky.

 

I'm not superstitious but the wife is. I could fill a book with all the things she has come up with over the years. Sometimes I think she makes them up as she goes.

 

I'm not superstitious, I'm a Boy Scout.

 

Im not really superstitious. The only thing I really come close to is I keep my buck eye in my tool box and ever since its been there pretty much everything has worked.

 

i feel the same way... i used to race atv's and would alwaysgo through the same routine prior to each race. even got tweaked if somebody broke my pattern. i think it had to do more with wanting things to go a certian way so that i wasnt frustrated when i got to the starting line, which makes little sense. it really just gave me more stuff to get frustrated about. but once u get your head tilted a certian way, its hard to bring it back...
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Thats not superstitious... its mildly OCD, which i am too, that's how i can spot it!

 

I don't believe I am superstitious at all. Some things I have kept out of fun/habit/sentiment but not because of any true belief in them. For example, the golden fish hook in my tackle box that is supposedly lucky. I don't believe in any luck associated with it but that my dad put it in there is a fond memory of my first tackle box and learning how to fish. Another would be a lucky penny that I kept. I never believed it was lucky but I had really fond memories that particular day and for whatever reason I taped that particular penny on a card as a kid and kept it. I recall once wishing on a star loud enough for the parents to hear (shortly before my birthday) my faith was in my parents hearing not in the star itself. I read the fortune in my cookie for good humor, I have broke a my share of wishbones in fun but again I never had any faith in the luck that was supposed to follow.

Unfortunately, among my peers are several with very deeply rooted superstitious beliefs. It is very frustrating at times.