Superstitions

    Random Superstitions

    There are 26 Superstitions!

    An acorn should be carried to bring luck and ensure a long life.
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    It's bad luck to leave a house through a different door than the one used to come into it.
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    Before traveling a person should, apparently, sit on their luggage. (Russian)
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    Two people breaking a wishbone is said to lead to good luck for the person with the larger piece.
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    If you catch a falling leaf on the first day of autumn you will not catch a cold all winter.
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    According to an age old custom, carrying a dead shrew in your pocket wards off rheumatism!
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    A single magpie is considered a sign of bad luck. A Guide to the Scientific Knowledge of Things Familiar recites an old proverb concerning the incidence of bad weather when magpies forage alone and a possible scientific explanation for this.
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    Opening an umbrella indoors is said to result in 21 days of bad luck. Some traditions hold that it is only bad luck if the umbrella is placed over the head of someone while indoors.
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