I hope all you Palm Addicts out there have a Happy Friday the 13th!!!! And I hope you all have a very Lucky day!!!!! Got your four leaf clovers and your rabbit foot with ya? Don't come across any black cats crossing the roadways! Don't walk under a ladder, and whatever you do, don't break a mirror!!!!!!
Nah, I never believed any of that stuff! I've walked under too many ladders to count!
Get a load of some of these ridiculous "bad luck" superstitions I found on the internet:
Seeing an ambulance is very unlucky unless you pinch your nose or hold your breath until you see a black or a brown dog.
It's bad luck to put a hat on a bed.
It is bad luck to light three cigarettes with the same match.
"Gee, ya think? Anybody who would light three cigarettes with the same match would be a chain smoker who was puffing away faster than a locomotive and who probably has lungs that look like a wrinkled up black trash bag! Sheesh!" "But, of course it probably means not to light 3 different people's cigarettes with the same match."
It's bad luck to leave a house through a different door than the one used to come into it.
"I have a friend who actually believes this and she will NOT leave her house through any other door than the one she came in through!"
It's bad luck to say the word "pig" while fishing at sea.
It is bad luck to close a pocket knife unless you were the one who opened it.
"Many people I know and family members believe this one, including my husband Barry. He was astonished when I handed him a pocket knife of his that I'd opened. He said that I had to close it or it was bad luck. I laughed and handed it to him anyway. He was serious and wouldn't close it! I couldn't believe it! So I finally closed it. I had never even heard of that before!!!"
It is unlucky to see your face in a mirror by candlelight.
It is bad luck to see an owl in the sunlight.
"Well, it sure was for my little brother Joey and his wife Diane because an owl flew right into their new car's windshield and broke it! They had to drive home like 10 miles per hour because the windshield was cracked from top to bottom and pieces were starting to fall on them. The bad luck was for the poor owl who never knew what hit him."
Black Cats - In ancient Egypt, the Goddess Bast was a black, female cat. Christians, wanting to rid society of all traces of other religions, convinced the ignorant that black cats were demons in disguise and should thus be destroyed. In the process, they also destroyed the kindly ladies who cared for the cats, believing them to be witches. Being demons, a black cat crossing your path would create a barrier of evil, cutting you off from God and blocking the entrance to heaven.
Spilling Salt - Salt used to be an expensive commodity used mainly for medicinal purposes. For this reason, spillage was to be avoided at all costs. The idea that it is unlucky to do so probably stems from the belief that Judas spilt salt during the last supper. Throwing spilt salt over the left shoulder is linked to its medicinal use. If it could not be administered, the next best thing was to throw it into the eye of the evil spirits that brought sickness upon us. These spirits were thought to lurk behind your shoulder, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
Singing before breakfast is bad luck.
Violets blooming out of season is thought to be bad luck.
"My Grandma Martin believed this. I was with her in her back yard one day when she picked a flower and frowned and threw it over the hedges. I asked her why she did that and she said that it was bad luck for it to be growing that time of year."
It's bad luck to give a pair of gloves to a friend unless you receive something in exchange.
It is considered bad luck for a bride to meet a pig or pass a funeral on the way to her wedding ceremony.
Don't cut your nails on Sunday or you'll see your blood the next day.
You must never put a hat on a bed. Also you must get out of bed the same side you got in otherwise you bring bad luck upon yourself!
You must wear new clothes at Easter or you will have bad luck.
Never cut your finger-nails on a Friday or a Sunday as this is unlucky.
"Oh well, that's a shame because I'm fixing to cut mine in a few minutes! Not only is it Friday, it's Friday the 13th!"
FRIDAY THE 13TH - how is fear of the number thirteen demonstarted?
More than 80 percent of high-rises lack a 13th floor.
Many airports skip the 13th gate.
Airplanes have no 13th aisle.
Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.
Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.
On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half.
Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue
In France, socialites known as the quatorziens (fourteeners) once made themselves available as 14th guests to keep a dinner party from an unlucky fate.
Many triskaidekaphobes, as those who fear the unlucky integer are known, point to the ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13.
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.
Some of those bad luck superstitions reminded me of some old timey remedies my Aunt Helen put in the back of a cookbook that she wrote. People actually used to believe some of these "old remedies"! Get a load of some of these:
Colic: Close the windows and doors of the baby's room and have the father keep smoking a pipe or cigar.
Ant Bites: Take a dip of snuff and rub the fresh dipped snuff on the bite.
Earache: Have someone blow tobacco smoke into your ear five times while saying, "Hurt, hurt, go away; go into a bale of hay."
Risings(don't even know what that is!): Put some hog lard on the rising and let a dog lick it off.
Cuts and Wounds: Take a large army ant and apply him to the cut, so that he takes hold of each side of the wound with his pincers. Cut his head off from his body, leaving his head to hold the cut together.
Stuttering: Hit the person stuttering in the mouth with a chicken gizzard.
The first time I read that out loud, I laughed until I cried! Where on earth did someone come up with some of this stupid crap?????
Crick in the Neck: Go down to the hog pen and find where a hog has rubbed his neck against the fence, then rub your neck in the same spot and your crick will be gone.
"My brother and I both had tears rolling down our cheeks after laughing so hard when we read that!"
Warts: Rub the wart with a rock. Put the rock in a tobacco sack and throw it over your left shoulder. Or rub the wart with a piece of bacon that has been stolen from a neighbor. Then hide the rock under the back porch. Or catch a frog and rub him on the wart.
"Or.... oh I don't know, tap on your PDA screen 3 times while eating an olive dipped in hamburger grease, while standing on your toilet seat with the comode plunger pointing due North and chant Wart, wart, go away. How stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid!"
Lockjaw: To cure lockjaw, place a board on the victim's head and hit it with a hammer.
Okay, that's enough of that! At least now you all know exactly what to do the next time those particular ailments are bothering you! And you know what not to do to bring bad luck upon yourselves!
- Jennifer Chappell, Technology Editor, (NC, US)
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