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I will never put shoes on the table or put an umbrella up in the house. Another thing, never pick up a glove you have dropped, let someone else do it and don't say thank you. Don't know why, but my granny said so!
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if you tell a lie youll go too the bad fire break amirror 7years bad luck dont walk under a ladder if your jumper was on inside out or outside in to change it back you had to turn around whilst doing it
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My nana use to tell me never give anyone salt over the doorstep as it was bad luck. she also thought elephants were bad luck to have in the house aswell as peacock feathers.
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My mum is very superstitious. She never buys any clothes in green as she considers it an unlucky colour to wear. Crossed knives, a fight, crossed teaspoons, a christening. Never open an umbrella in the house, or put shoes on the table, even if they are still in the box, these are considered unlucky. If you spill salt/sugar, bad luck, throw some over your shoulder.
It seems a lot of our mums had the same superstitions.
I couldn't care less about any of them, as I am not superstitious.
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Another one of my nana's was never sleep in your bed with your feet pointing to the door as that's the way they carry you out when you snuff it. Knife on the floor means man at the door (meaning the polis) if you drop a knife on the floor stand on it first before you pick it up.
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If you give someone a purse or wallet, you put a coin in it
Find a penny, pick it up. All day long you'll have good luck
Never buy pearls for yourself, it's bad luck
First footing should be tall and dark haired, with a piece of coal and cake
This goes back to the Vikings, when a blond-haired stranger arriving in the middle of the night at Scottish door was not usually lucky, the coal was to keep you warm and the cake to fill your belly.
My Gran would read the tea leafs for us but told us all the same thing we would meet a tall dark and handsome man, well a got the dark and handsome but not the tall
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My nana always said if you drop a knife on the floor a handsome man was coming to call, no mention of the police.
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My Mum moved my bedroom furniture one day and the bed end was facing the door , my Dad shifted it back again as he wouldnt have your feet facing the door as it was the way they would carry you out.Later in life when I was training to be a nurse I was always told not to take a patient in bed out the door feet first, always take the head first so thay would come back.It was okay to bring them back to the ward feet first though and for the unfortunate ones , the feet end always did go out the door first.
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