If you spill salt, you will get bad luck.

If a futeral car passes, you should hide your thumb.

If you right hand itches, you will earn money.

If swallons are flying low to the ground it will soon rain.

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.”

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.