[happygolucky]

Hi, I have one main superstition, have no idea why...I will not wash clothing on New Year's Day.....it supposed to wash some ones out your life, die etc........my husband always wants me to put some washing in but I will not, it's ok to tumble dry stuff......silly really and no idea why I still do it but it got me thinking do other people know of it or what superstitions do the keep, another is shoes on the table and it was a pigeon in the roof but that is stupid as hey are always on roofs........all about death....

[Ina]

Well, seeing that yesterday was the one dry day in amongst a lot of wet, everybody around here was doing their washing... Can't say I have any superstitions like that.

[plumseverywhere]

We never wash blankets in the month of May as it means you are going to wash someone out of your life, bad luck to do washing New years day, ash wednesday or Good Friday.
Mums elephants (ornaments!) have to have trunks facing the door or it brings bad luck.
We won't let the girls have peacock feathers in their rooms in case they never marry as a result.

We've broken an age old gypsy superstition by allowing cats to live in the house with us! But as most travellers believe that mice turn into R-A-Ts (a word that can only ever be spelled, not said) then I think we are doing ourselves a favour 
When talking about people who are no longer with us, its normal to follow their name with 'God rest his soul' or another saying similar in order to keep them resting in peace.
Oh and hands must never be washed in the kitchen sink, only the bathroom but I have NO idea why!! 

(I hadn't realised just how superstitious my family were till listing this lot - I'll stop there lol before I make myself look even more bonkers than you already think I am     )

[Alistair]

Bl**dy magpies...

Might as well count traffic lights

[happygolucky]

Plumbs, most of them I am aware of, not the cats one though, think my mum and gran were more superstitious due to grand family being irish,


We never blasphemed in our house as a child,....I Di now but still try to stop myself.....


I wonder if there are ant modern ones, maybe. Do not switch your mobile phone off in front of a policeman as you may get pulled in

[size=78%]a lot if people I know salute to magpies when they see one, I still hate to just see 1 so search for Magpie no. 2[/size]

[size=78%]here's another silly one, do not put milk in after the tea, always before![/size]

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[plumseverywhere]

I think the Irish have lots of superstitions! Dads side much less so but my Mum and Nan were very nervous about all of the above    We also believe that robins and dragon flies are passed over friends and relatives checking on us 

[Fowgill Farm]

We have loads in our family, my nan was uber superstitious, i do the magpie search for two, no walking under ladders, black cats lucky, no red & white,  , , touching    etc.
Drives OH mad.
Mandy

[happygolucky]

Arh yes, that no red and white....I still do not do that in flower arrangements, it supposed to signify blood my mum used o say...she was a nurse and the never put those colours on wards.......


I suppose some are health and safety, I hated anyone washing hands in the kitchen and that's a health risk but now I often do it although only with washing up liquid.


I wonder if my daughters keep any........the black cat bringing good luck I think we all wish is/ was true.

[Ina]

I suppose some are health and safety, I hated anyone washing hands in the kitchen and that's a health risk but now I often do it although only with washing up liquid.

Since the kitchen is often the first place you get to coming in from outside I think it's a lot unhealthier not to wash your hands there - touching all sorts of doorknobs with filthy hands on the way to the bathroom, dripping mud all over the place must be a health hazard!

These superstitions are really rather strange...

[plumseverywhere]

I'd forgotten the red and white flowers from my nursing days! Hate lilies with a passion as we used to cringe when relatives brought them onto the ward!
Whenever somebody died, we used to open the window to release their spirit. Just did it out of habit as qualified nurses. 

[Beeducked]

here's another silly one, do not put milk in after the tea, always before!

I remember being told that one but not as a superstition but because with fine china if you put the milk in first the hot tea was less likely to crack the glaze. No idea if it's true.

[Sylvia]

I would never let anyone take a puppy away on a Saturday 'nor would anyone get discharged from hospital on a Saturday in Ireland "Saturday flit- never long sit"
I do acknowledge a single magpie but will happily walk under a ladder. The old saying was "Wash blankets in May wash one of the family away" I don't take the chance.

[Brucklay]

I'm quite superstitious and yet I know it doesn't really make sense, no walking under ladders (although some of the places I stick mine it's probably more dangerous not too!!, touch wood plenty of times, black cats lucky, lucky horse shoes correct way or luck falls out, always hunt out Magpie No2 and probably more 

[Bionic]

Sorry but this all baffles me. I can't think of any superstitions that I stick to. Although saying that I do post the    emoticon for peopls sometimes. Does that count?

[Fleecewife]

I'm not superstitious either - it doesn't sit well with a scientist  .  I walk under ladders if it's safe and laugh at folk who would rather step into the road without looking to avoid a ladder.  I don't like to see a single magpie but only because I don't like them, and two is even worse.  I cut my toenails on a Sunday, I do my washing whatever day suits, I discharged patients when they were ready to go, I blaspheme in the house  , my cat lives in the house, I stand on cracks in the pavement (haven't been eaten by a lion yet  ) and I probably do thousands of other things which are forbidden to those of a superstitious nature, but because I don't know what they are I don't know I'm throwing caution to the wind.  I didn't put red and white flowers in the same vase in hospital, not because I believed it caused a death but because it distressed so many of the patients who dreaded that someone would then die. Oh and I don't believe in the biggest superstition of them all.........
 
There are enough true dangers in the world to worry about without inventing more.