Superstitions and Old Wive's Tales

Anyone on here have any that have always stuck in your head and ruled how you do certain things?
i.e. ladders and not walking under them? Cracks in the pavement, never treading on them?
Do you have certain ways of doing things for no apparent logical reason?
Just curious to see what crops up

 

Show us yours & I'll show mine.

 

When I was taught to hand milk cows, the first few squirts from each teat, on each cow went onto the ground " to feed the fairies"

 

Never walk barefoot over a river bridge, the "trolls will smell your feet and follow you home"

 

If a wild bird has got into your house expect news of death, if the bird entered down the chimney expect news of a birth.

 

I never cross my knife and fork......damned if I can remember why, but I know that it is not supposed to bode well if I do.
Never give knives or scissors as gifts for tis bad luck.
Shall think of more over the day.

 

I feel the need to "Touch Wood" on occasion.

 

Probably best that is done in private

 

I never ever touch my Footpeg before I ride my Bike...

 

Iv'e no superstitions i can think of... But i have a friend who says ''never view your own reflection on the side panels or windows of a funeral car''. I guess the reflection gives a ''spooky'' image of the viewer being inside the hearse or the cortege of vehicles, or something?

 

is there one about "two birds and there bush"

 

Never place a mirror where if you are lying in bed you can see yourself...your soul then never sleeps...

 

I always without fail, put on my left boot and glove before the others. God knows why but it works for me.

 

That's mine too! Don't know where it's come from but the left boot goes on before the right and the same with the gloves. This goes for zips etc too. Weird....

 

ive been know to touch cloth on a few occasions

 

When I fill up the bike or car with fuel, the pump display must show a number 7.
It can be the amount spent or the amount of fuel Done it for years as well as carrying a penny within my biking clothes.

 

If you suppress your farts, the ''heavier'' odours will sink downwards to your feet and make them stink.

 

Now that is just plain silly!
Be different if it was allegedly told to you by the gnomes at the bottom of your patio (after one of their brethren slipped on that oil slick!)

 

I heard if you hold them in, they travel upward and that's where the shitty ideas come from.

 

If its an ''evil'' fart, they descend, downstairs. Pure logic