Good luck superstitions and bad luck superstitions
June 21, 2008 – 1:19 amDo you believe in superstitions?
Thousands of people believe in superstitions although a lot off people think of them as nonsense and not based on reason. Where does the word “superstition” come from? The word superstition comes from two Latin words: “Super’’ and “Stare”. Super means above and stare means to stand.
We know that the source of the superstitions is ignorance. Do you know anyone who does not have a superstition? Most of the people, more or less, believe in them. Even though they deny superstitions, they can not help believing in them. They are superstitious. Unfortunately, we have hundreds of superstitions. Superstitions are all around the world. They change from culture to culture and they have a big influence in our lives.
There are two types of superstition. Good luck superstitions and bad luck superstitions.
Some common superstitions around the world:
Good luck superstitions
- If your right hand itches, you will earn money.
- If you find a four-leaf clover, you will have good luck.
- If you see a horseshoe which was lost, you will have good luck.
- If you throw rice on a new bride and groom, they will have so many children.
- If you dream about a white cat, you will have good luck.
- If you see a black cat which walks towards you, it brings you good luck.
- If your right ear itches, someone is speaking well of you.
- You can hang up garlic in your house for good luck.
- If you put a mirror just across the door, you will have good luck.
- If you put the sugar into the cup first, before the tea, you will have good luck.
- If you step on your shadow, it brings you good luck.
- If you catch a falling leaf on the first day of autumn, you will have good luck all winter.
- If you blow out all the candles on your birthday cake in one blow, you will get whatever you want.
- If the first butterfly you see in the year is white, it brings you good luck all year.
- If a girl drinks salty water then goes to sleep, she will see her future husband in her dream.
Bad luck superstitions
- If you open an umbrella indoors, it brings you bad luck.
- If you sleep with your feet towards the door, a nightwalker will steal your soul.
- If you whistle at night, a nightwalker will come to your home.
- When a cat sneezes three times indoors, it will rain in 24 hours.
- If you dream about a dog, you will have a lot of enemies.
- If you break a mirror, it will bring you seven years of bad luck.
- If an owl hoots in your garden, it brings you bad luck.
- If you walk under a ladder, you will have bad luck.
- If you kill an albatross, it brings you bad luck.
- If you sleep on a table, you will have bad luck.
- If a dog howls at night, death is near.
- If you see a bird that comes towards you, you will have bad luck.
- If you drop a dishcloth, you will have bad luck.
- If you eat from the pot, it will rain at your wedding ceremony.
- If you start a trip on Friday, you will meet misfortune.
- If your left hand itches, you will lose money.
Do you know some good or bad luck superstations, which weren’t listed above? Please write them as a comment.
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40 Responses to “Good luck superstitions and bad luck superstitions”
If a black cat crosses the road in front of you, you will have bad luck
By Bad luck superstition on Jun 23, 2008
If you dream you fall off a donkey and hit the ground, you will die
By bad luck on Aug 3, 2008
Friday the 13th brings you bad luck
By friday 13th on Aug 11, 2008
Full moon is bringing some people bad and some people good luck… But I guess it is mostly bad luck warning
By full moon on Aug 11, 2008
If you in the river themes n your on a ship, if the tower of london come and you wave at it and someone waves back at you, you will get 5 years of good luck!!!
By tayyaba on Nov 11, 2008
If you have a owl in your garden is this good or bad luck?
By mv on Nov 18, 2008
1.if you have you have a booger sticking out on your left nostril then you will have good luck.
2.if your right nostril whistles then you will have bad luck
By jackiechan444` on Nov 27, 2008
If you sleep in midnoon you will grow taller
By JmH on Dec 7, 2008
If you dream about Sweden’s lying in your backyard, you’ll find money on the street
If you see a bunny going into his hollow, you will have good luck for 3 hours.
If you believe what’s standing above this, you’ll have bad luck, because I considered it.
By 비밀 on Jan 8, 2009
if you see a black cat it will either give U HORIBLE luck or bad luck.
By Mia on Jan 10, 2009
If U find a penny head side up it will give U good luck.
By Elena on Jan 10, 2009
if you hear 3 farts in one hour, bad luck will come to you.
if you kill a roach with a mirror, the roach will see itself as it dies and eat out your soul.
if you eat a pumpkin seed, you will be given money from a distant relative.
if three friends are fighting, death with come on swift wings for your canary.
By millicent ules on Jan 19, 2009
if you sneeze 3 times in a row , someone is talking bad things about you
By christina on Feb 15, 2009
if u were born at friday d 13, u are a lucky person
i did
By jinx on Feb 22, 2009
if you dream about someone dying someone is getting married if you dream about someone getting married someone is and or dying
By heather on Mar 14, 2009
this mess is fake
By shermaine on Mar 18, 2009
is giving your boyfriend a watch for his bday badluck… if so how do you get rid of it??
By Rioghnach on Apr 6, 2009
the 8th, 13th, and 18th are the worst days in any month. you will have bad luck in most of things you do.
By don't know on Apr 13, 2009
If someone is walking in front of you and you hit their leg that means you will get in a fight that person. To avoid this, shake their hand.
By Alice on Apr 23, 2009
Wha is the meaning of having a falcon touch your left ear flying from behind, and then stop in front of you and watched directly into your eyes
By Patrick Roggiero on Jun 5, 2009
beying in rain can get rid of bad luck but it takes a little time
also if you go to the church and you get blessing water and you puts crosses all over you somtimes it can get rid of bad luck.
.if you draw a unbrela somtimes it can give you bad luck
.if you open am unbrela with out stumping on rain it can give you bad luck.
.also when a porsen opens a unbrela infront of you you can get bad luck
.when creepy things happen that can be bad luck.
By toMMy\toMMito(sMith) on Aug 3, 2009
If you spill salt, you will get bad luck
By Hazel on Aug 15, 2009
why is friday 13th lucky or unluckyfor some people?
By niloofar on Sep 6, 2009
If you touch glass while going over railroad tracks..you’ll have good luck.
If you step on a sewer drain..you’ll have bad luck.
By Tiarah on Sep 18, 2009
If you eat BEFORE taking a shower you will have bad luck.
If you spill salt (you might know this)it is bad luck,but you can get rid of it by throwing pepper over your shoulder.
By Adrian on Oct 2, 2009
evil can’t harm you when you stand ina circle
break a bad spell by turning 7 times in a clockwise circle
By :'') on Oct 12, 2009
if u read the above messages on superstions u will fail in ur life
By neenu on Oct 28, 2009
put a horseshoe over ur doorknob like a n it will bring u good luck
By erick on Nov 3, 2009
Friday the 13th is unlucky for someone because of the Night’s Templar stories.
First, I’ll just say that every culture has a different belief. Some countries don’t care about Friday the thirteenth, or even the NUMBER 13 for that matter. They maay have a completely different number–or for all we know, an unliucky letter.
Anyway, like I was saying, Friday the 13th is “unlucky” b/c the Night’s Templar went back on what they had a deal on with a king and killed many people. —below is from the link–http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_the_13th
“Witches’ Sabbath.”[12]
Another theory about the origin of the superstition traces the event to the arrest of the legendary Knights Templar. According to one expert:
The Knights Templar were a monastic military order founded in Jerusalem in 1118 C.E., whose mission was to protect Christian pilgrims during the Crusades. Over the next two centuries, the Knights Templar became extraordinarily powerful and wealthy. Threatened by that power and eager to acquire their wealth, King Philip secretly ordered the mass arrest of all the Knights Templar in France on Friday, October 13, 1307 – Friday the 13th.[5]
The connection between the superstition and the Knights Templar was popularized in the 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code. However, some experts think that it is relatively recent and is a modern-day invention.[10][4][9] For example, the superstition is rarely found before the 20th century, when it became extremely common. One author, noting that references are all but nonexistent before 1907 but frequently seen thereafter, has argued that its popularity derives from the publication that year of Thomas W. Lawson’s popular novel Friday, the Thirteenth,[13] in which an unscrupulous broker takes advantage of the superstition to create a Wall Street panic on a Friday the 13th.[5]
A further theory goes back to a combination of Paganism, Christianity, and the Battle of Hastings. For many, the number 13 was considered a lucky number (such as 13 lunar cycles each year), but with the efforts of Christianity attempting to degrade all things Pagan, they promoted 13 as an unlucky number, with Friday thus also being considered a bad day of the week. However, on Friday the 13th of October 1066, the decision was made by King Harold II to go to battle on Saturday the 14th of October, rather than allow his troops a day of rest (despite his army having made a long and arduous march from a battle near York just 3 weeks earlier). This decision in going to battle before the English troops were rested (the English lost and King Harold was killed), further established Friday the 13th as an unlucky day.
In some other countries, instead of Friday, it is considered bad luck Tuesday the 13th. (Spain [1], Greece, Latin America). For example, the Fall of Constantinople, when the city fell to the Ottomans (a fact which marked the end of the Byzantine Empire), happened Tuesday, May 29, 1453, and is why Greeks consider Tuesday to be an unlucky day. In Italy it is on Friday the 17th.
Some others..
If you come across a pig in Germany, I think it’s good luck. I would name him bacon- though that might give you bad luck…
Stepping on cracks in the sidewalk– is quite debatable
If you dream about a green monkey, it brings bad luck as it means you;ll soon get sick
If you believe you will have good luck, you will have good luck.
if the groom sees a bride’s dress befor the wedding begins, it’s bad luck upon their marriage.
Astronauts play a game of cards before they go on the space shuttle as good luck (so everything goes well).
They also shake hands with everyone on staff as good luck so that everything goes well.
By Sky on Nov 9, 2009
why is stepping on a sewer drain bad luck? I heard if you rub your knee after stepping on 3, it’ll make the bad luck go away…
By Sky on Nov 9, 2009
why you guys believe this? this is all lies i try ed all the bad luck nothing happened in fact i tryed them in exams but nothing happened i tryed good luck nothing happened too its all lies theres no such thing as luck good or bad theres no such thing i dont believe in luck my naster never believedin luck hes one of the greastest masters ever if you want good stuff to happen then you have to work on it! hard! nothing comes to you you go to it to get it by your work not good lucks work hope its helped
By moe on Nov 18, 2009
If you join the European Union, your country will experience a major economic upturn.
By Boaz on Dec 22, 2009
HAHAHA…. Boaz, good one
Very common superstition aboud European Union 
By Chris on Dec 22, 2009
some are true and some are not true..
if you drive over a dead black cat, it bad luck
if you dream of someone dying,he/ she will live longer..
if your lower eye twitch u wil cry
the upper one, you will see something good
By samira on Dec 28, 2009
if u wake up with your left foot that brings u bad luck
By bad luck on Dec 30, 2009
If you Borrow salt it is very bad luck unless you cross the lenders hand with a silver coin.
The Borrower of the salt will be poor that year if they don’t return the salt or pay with a silver coin.
the Lender will be prosperous if they receive a silver coin from the borrower if no silver coin is received they too will be poor for that year.
By Addy on Jan 3, 2010
“Friday 13th is unlucky for some. The risk of hospital
admission as a result of a transport accident may be
increased by as much as 52 percent. Staying at home
is recommended.”
LEGEND HAS IT: If 13 people sit down to dinner together,
one will die within the year. The Turks so disliked the
number 13 that it was practically expunged from their
vocabulary (Brewer, 1894). Many cities do not have a
13th Street or a 13th Avenue. Many buildings don’t have a
13th floor. If you have 13 letters in your name, you will
have the devil’s luck (Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson,
Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all
have 13 letters in their names). There are 13 witches
in a coven.
LEGEND HAS IT: Never change your bed on Friday; it will
bring bad dreams. Don’t start a trip on Friday or you
will have misfortune. If you cut your nails on Friday,
you cut them for sorrow. Ships that set sail on a Friday
will have bad luck – as in the tale of H.M.S. Friday …
One hundred years ago, the British government sought to
quell once and for all the widespread superstition
among seamen that setting sail on Fridays was unlucky.
A special ship was commissioned, named “H.M.S. Friday.”
They laid her keel on a Friday, launched her on a Friday,
selected her crew on a Friday and hired a man named Jim
Friday to be her captain. To top it off, H.M.S. Friday
embarked on her maiden voyage on a Friday, and was never
seen or heard from again.
On October 13, 1307, a day so infamous that Friday the
13th would become a synonym for ill fortune, officers
of King Philip IV of France carried out mass arrests
in a well-coordinated dawn raid that left several thousand
Templars — knights, sergeants, priests, and serving
brethren — in chains, charged with heresy, blasphemy,
various obscenities, and homosexual practices. None
of these charges was ever proven, even in France — and
the Order was found innocent elsewhere — but in the seven
years following the arrests, hundreds of Templars suffered
excruciating tortures intended to force “confessions,”
and more than a hundred died under torture or were executed
by burning at the stake.
UNLUCKY FRIDAY + UNLUCKY 13 = UNLUCKIER FRIDAY
triskaidekaphobia- the fear of the number 13
Because it was the day of our Lord’s crucifixion; it is
accordingly a fast-day in the Roman Catholic Church.
Soames says, “Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit on
a Friday, and died on a Friday.”
By ashoo on Jan 4, 2010
If you believe in superstitions, you will have bad luck.
By kaph on Jan 12, 2010
If you cut baby`s hair before their first year of age they will not talk…
(Stupid!!!)
By Kevin on Jan 23, 2010
if you wash your clothes on friday it reduce your many and salary
By sandra on Feb 8, 2010