What Superstitions Do You Sheepishly "believe in"

[RobbyMaQ]

I believe in ghosts. From experience. I don't care to explain. Take it for what it's worth, or not.

 

[VUPDblue]

I believe in ghosts. From experience. I don't care to explain. Take it for what it's worth, or not.

Yup. I thought it was all hooey until I lived in a 100 year old house in Terrible Haute. We even named the spirit that lived there...Clarence I think it was. I saw things I can’t explain with logic in that house. Have not seen anything even remotely similar since then.

 

[Trigger Time]

I believe in ghosts. From experience. I don't care to explain. Take it for what it's worth, or not.

Me too

 

[croy]

Knife opening is about it for me

 

[Kutnupe14]

Not necessarily believe... but I observe...

-picking up face up coins, face down stay where they are
-black cats cross my intended path, I find another route
-won't walk under latters
-when I had hair, after cutting it was never thrown/swept outside
-never step over a child
-avoid eating anything with red sauce made by a women I have just started to date
-keeping a low profile during Friday 13th and on full moons

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Not necessarily believe... but I observe...

-picking up face up coins, face down stay where they are
-black cats cross my intended path, I find another route
-won't walk under latters
-when I had hair, after cutting it was never thrown/swept outside
-never step over a child
-avoid eating anything with red sauce made by a women I have just started to date
-keeping a low profile during Friday 13th and on full moons

I step over children. The screaming and crying just got to be too much when I stepped ON them.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

I'm not overly superstitious, but I do avoid setting the volume on my tv or car radio on 13. It's either 12 or 14, but not 13.

 

[churchmouse]

Not necessarily believe... but I observe...

-picking up face up coins, face down stay where they are
-black cats cross my intended path, I find another route
-won't walk under latters
-when I had hair, after cutting it was never thrown/swept outside
-never step over a child
-avoid eating anything with red sauce made by a women I have just started to date
-keeping a low profile during Friday 13th and on full moons

Interesting on the coins. I was a "See a penny pick it up" guy.Face up or down. Might explain dome things....

I see a bit of voodoo in some of this Kut. I know a couple of folks that have these very same beliefs.

 

[Steel and wood]

If I give you my knife opened I want it back open you should not close it and Vice versa. If I find a penny heads up it goes in my right shoe, if not it goes in my left pocket. I carry all change in my right pocket. Any other coins I find just make me that much closer to my custom 1911.

 

[M67]

One of my parents was born on a Friday the 13th, so a lot of the usual superstitions I don't have. One of the few:

Death comes in 3s

Full moons; drivers and people in general get weird....er


Never believed in the knife thing, either opening/closing or the penny. If possible I hand a knife closed more as a courtesy

 

[eldirector]

Never walk under a ladder. More of a safety thing.

I also pick up pennies. And any other money I find.

We push to production on Thursday at noon. Have the rest of the day, and Friday, to clean up the mess before the weekend.

I do knock on wood. Don't really know why.

Truly believe in Murphy's Law and all corollaries. Something invariably goes wrong, and it is comforting to know it was supposed to.

We had a black cat. Some cultures believe it is GOOD luck. I'm running with that one.

Bad luck in groups (comes in three, next shoe drops, etc...). In my world, when something breaks (#1) and gets fixed, it only exposes the next weakest component (numbers 2 and 3).

Mondays. Enough said.

No open umbrellas indoors.

I keep the gas tank above half, never travel more than I care to walk without my tool bag and recovery gear, never leave without my GHB, etc... Related to Murphy's Laws above.

Oh, and for this group: check if loaded, and check again.

The human brain is uniquely suited to find patterns. When we experience something unexpected (good luck or bad), we innately tie the experience to something we did/had at the moment. When it happens again (by chance, or by plan), and we have the thing/behavior again, then WOW it is must bring us luck.

 

[Dead Duck]

One of my parents was born on a Friday the 13th, so a lot of the usual superstitions I don't have. One of the few:

Death comes in 3s

Full moons; drivers and people in general get weird....er


Never believed in the knife thing, either opening/closing or the penny. If possible I hand a knife closed more as a courtesy

Just don't fold up my fixed blade please.

 

[Snapdragon]

Red heads are evil.

 

[Hoosier Carry]

I wash my Packers jersey if they lose........

Run out of soap yet

 

[nipprdog]

Red heads are evil.

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[thunderchicken]

Run out of soap yet

Easy now, MrSmitty isn't alone here. I wash my Packers Jersey whether they win or lose. Lol

 

[KLB]

My wife thinks that putting shoes on the table or counter is bad luck, as well as a slew of other things. All handed down from the Irish side of her family.

 

[PapaScout]

Not superstitious but I always put my left shoe on first. Always.

 

[indiucky]

I believe in ghosts. From experience. I don't care to explain. Take it for what it's worth, or not.

I've seen a haint on more than one occasion...Not in a house...By a campfire, early morning getting ready to run a trapline...My best friend witnessed it as well...Even had a conversation with the haint and an INGOer published the story....

http://wildindiana.com/ghost-stories-two-tales-of-haunted-hoosier-hunting/

 

[Brad69]

A young man just recounted a story from this years deer season about a haint.
He was hunting on Goosetown ridge in a tree stand and heard a wagon and horse team bouncing down a old trail that runs along the top of the ridge.
According to him you could hear the horses snorting, the rattle of the bits, the wheels squeaking? He heard this on two occasions just before day light the old trail hasn’t been in use for over 100 years and has deep ruts from wagons still visible.

I have no superstitious beliefs but stories like Indies and this young man sometimes make me think when in the deep woods!