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Traditions, Superstitions
 Good Luck
Lucky to meet a black cat, Lucky to touch wood, Lucky to find a clover plant
with four leaves, A horseshoe over the door brings good luck. But the horse shoe
needs to be the right way up. The luck runs out of the horse shoe if it is
upside down, On the first day of the month it is lucky to say "white rabbits,
white rabbits white rabbits," before uttering your first word of the day,
Catch falling leaves in Autumn and you're have good luck. Every leaf means a
lucky month next year.
 Bad Luck
Unlucky to walk underneath a ladder, Seven years bad luck to break a mirror,
Unlucky to see one magpie, lucky to see two,
Unlucky to spill salt. If you do, you must throw it over your shoulder to
counteract the bad luck,
Unlucky to open an umbrella in doors,
The number 13 is unlucky. Friday the thirteenth is a very unlucky day, Unlucky
to put new shoes on the table,
Unlucky to pass someone on the stairs.
In some parts of
the UK meeting two or three Ravens together is considered really bad. One very
English superstition concerns the tame Ravens at the Tower of London. It is
believed if they leave then the crown of England will be lost.
If a Sparrow enters a house it is an omen of death to one who lives there.
In some areas black Rabbits are thought to host the souls of human beings. A
common lucky charm is a Rabbit's foot, It is thought very unlucky to have the
feathers of a Peacock within the home. |
