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Superstitions
Topic Started: Feb 12 2008, 06:34:47 PM (158 Views)
Anne
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Alex and I have just pulled a wishbone and neither one of us ended up with the long bit. The knobbly bit on top snapped from both sides and just dropped to the floor :o What does this mean, I wonder :dunno:
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12th February, 2008 - 08:34am
Alex and I have just pulled a wishbone and neither one of us ended up with the long bit.  The knobbly bit on top snapped from both sides and just dropped to the floor :o  What does this mean, I wonder :dunno:

the bone was broken in two places already? :dunno:

i had a friend who used to salute a single magpie ... whenever i see magpies i think of her - she was as mad as a bag of frogs :lol:

still is probably, im using past tense cos i havent heard from her in years ... :lol: ... not cos shes dead :lol:
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Gill's granfer used to tilt his hat and say "G'day m'lord" to a single magpie.
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:confused:
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ohippy
12th February, 2008 - 09:53pm


I'm not at all supersticious, touch wood.
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:lol:

my eldest has been told by a 'friend' that if you breathe when you pass a cemetary you can swallow the soul of a dead person :crazy:

Now my kids hold their breath every time we pass one. Tomorrow I'm planning on parking outside our local one after I've picked them up from school :whistle: :hide:
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ohippy
12th February, 2008 - 10:43pm
:lol:

my eldest has been told by a 'friend' that if you breathe when you pass a cemetary you can swallow the soul of a dead person :crazy:

Now my kids hold their breath every time we pass one. Tomorrow I'm planning on parking outside our local one after I've picked them up from school :whistle: :hide:


And when they try to hold their breath for that long spell tell them they are doing the ironing when you get home.
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I wasn't planning on taking them home :whistle:
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ohippy
12th February, 2008 - 11:45pm
I wasn't planning on taking them home :whistle:

:o :hide: :P
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12th February, 2008 - 12:43pm
:lol:

my eldest has been told by a 'friend' that if you breathe when you pass a cemetary you can swallow the soul of a dead person :crazy:

Now my kids hold their breath every time we pass one. Tomorrow I'm planning on parking outside our local one after I've picked them up from school :whistle: :hide:

PMSL!!!!!!!!!

excellent!! :thumbsup:
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ohippy
12th February, 2008 - 10:43pm
:lol:

my eldest has been told by a 'friend' that if you breathe when you pass a cemetary you can swallow the soul of a dead person :crazy:

Now my kids hold their breath every time we pass one. Tomorrow I'm planning on parking outside our local one after I've picked them up from school :whistle: :hide:

I can remember as a kid we wouldn't walk on drains as it was bad luck (I suppose too many people had fallen down them at some point!!), I used as a kid salute a magpie and say "Hello Captain" and then try and find another one otherwise it was bad luck.................and no I haven't got a clue why :wacko:
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To see one magpie is bad luck, 2 for a boy and 3 for a girl - that's all I remember.

I don't walk under ladders.

Touching wood for luck is a pagan tradition.
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Haver stopped the magpie one since moving here ,as the magpies just seem to be black & white crows :crazy: :hide:
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magpies mate for life so you always see them in pairs, it's considered bad luck if you only see one as it would imply that it's mate is dead.

All a load of codswallop if you ask me :whistle:
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12th February, 2008 - 10:43pm
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Now my kids hold their breath every time we pass one. Tomorrow I'm planning on parking outside our local one after I've picked them up from school :whistle: :hide:

:lol:
That made me spit my tea! :thumbsup: :lol:
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I've become more superstitiuous as the last two years have gone on! (funny that) no walking on cracks, under ladders, VERY careful with mirrors (don't look in them for a start!) I try not to run over black cats (but thats a strong urg :lol: :hide: ) always touching wood (well laminex, but hey!)
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16th February, 2008 - 09:19am
I try not to run over black cats (but thats a strong urg :lol: :hide: )

:o
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Fitz is getting VERY good at recognising my car :thumbsup: :lol:
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You can run over my daughter but leave my cat. :whistle:
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13th February, 2008 - 05:47pm
To see one magpie is bad luck, 2 for a boy and 3 for a girl - that's all I remember.

I don't walk under ladders.

Touching wood for luck is a pagan tradition.

I remember always saying this as a kid as loads of magpies in Ireland

One for sorrow
Two for joy
Three for a girl and
Four for a boy.

I understand the first two but whats the girl and boy thing about :wacko:

I am not really superstitious at all now, in fact I have gone totally against it. When I was a child my mother always said it was bad luck to leave your shoes on the table or a teaspoon in your cup while drinking tea.

The ones that really annoy me are the chain mail letters and emails saying that if you dont reply to at least ten people in 24 hours the chain will be broken and something terrible will happen :scared: I delete or bin them straigth away :thumbsup:
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Five for silver
Six for gold
Seven for a secret never to be told
Eight's a wish
Nine's a kiss
Ten is a bird you should not miss


maaaaaagpieeeeeeee :whistle:
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Thanks Catgirl

I had forgotten the rest :thumbsup:

My grandmother used to throw a pinch of salt over her left shoulder, but I cant remember what superstition she did that for. Apparently the salt thing broke the spell. I guess its the same as the touching wood thing :crazy:

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I used to watch that programme and sing along too :whistle:

Shoes on the table I can understand as the germs are horrendous and if you drink tea with a teaspoon in your cup it's possible to get it stuck in your eye :crazy:
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19th February, 2008 - 07:40am
Thanks Catgirl

I had forgotten the rest :thumbsup:

My grandmother used to throw a pinch of salt over her left shoulder, but I cant remember what superstition she did that for. Apparently the salt thing broke the spell. I guess its the same as the touching wood thing :crazy:

my mum always threw salt over her shoulder if she spilt some, a chef I used to work with was always doing it (clumsy so and so), so I checked it out and found:

" Salt used to be an expensive commodity used mainly for medicinal purposes. For this reason, spillage was to be avoided at all costs. The idea that it is unlucky to do so probably stems from the belief that Judas spilt salt during the last supper. Throwing spilt salt over the left shoulder is linked to its medicinal use. If it could not be administered, the next best thing was to throw it into the eye of the evil spirits that brought sickness upon us. These spirits were thought to lurk behind your shoulder, waiting for an opportunity to strike. "

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I used to throw salt over my left shoulder as that was where the devil sat or so I was told but your explanation makes sense CG.

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20th February, 2008 - 06:38am
I used to throw salt over my left shoulder as that was where the devil sat or so I was told but your explanation makes sense CG.

I think I was told that too. Like a lot of tales/superstitions i guess they can change depending on where you live and the region/county
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