The Strangest Superstitions You've Ever Heard

[Black_Bird]

What is the strangest superstition or piece of misinformation you've ever heard?

My mother recently told me that pornography is illegal. No, not just child porn... all of it. http://216.40.201.155/s/cwm/alien/huh.gif
I'm also bothered by people who believe that there is some kind of order to the numbers they pick for the lottery. "I just *knew* that number was going to come," they say. Uh huh. http://www.grillsportverein.de/smilies/cwm/alien/bah.gif

If you look hard enough for proof, you will find it.

 

[Tyrael]

My mom saw that lame movie Hackers one day and now she thinks I'm using my computer to steal credit card numbers and stuff.

The "knock on wood" thing irks me a bit. I don't care if people say it, but when they start actually rapping on a table or a wall ( I saw a woman knock on a tree once ) I have to say "Oro?"

I read a article about a woman terrified of olives.

 

[navarre]

My EX, (a foreign national), believed that if you take out the garbage at night bad luck and financial ruin would befall you.

I suspect someone took the garbage out at night!

 

[Phoenyx]

If you walk over a persons legs they will stop growing.

 

[riff]

There's something bloddy fucking wrong about me.

 

[Black_Bird]

My mom saw that lame movie Hackers one day and now she thinks I'm using my computer to steal credit card numbers and stuff.

Hey - don't give my mom any ideas! http://216.40.201.155/s/cwm/alien/alien2.gif

The "knock on wood" thing irks me a bit. I don't care if people say it, but when they start actually rapping on a table or a wall ( I saw a woman knock on a tree once ) I have to say "Oro?"

Despite of what you might have been told before, trees are made out of wood. http://www.contrabandent.com/cwm/s/cwm/alien/haa.gif

I read a article about a woman terrified of olives.

What so wrong with being terrified of olives? They taste horrible!

 

[Tyrael]

I know trees are made of wood.

About the olives...I don't mean this :

"Gee, I hate olives...they are disgusting!"

but this:

"Is that an o..o..o..oll..olive!?!" * runs screaming into the night*

 

[Black_Bird]

"Gee, I hate olives...they are disgusting!"
but this:
"Is that an o..o..o..oll..olive!?!" * runs screaming into the night*

*Shrugs* Looks like the same thing to me. http://www.duhspot.com/users/smiley/s/cwm/alien/ha.gif

 

[JennyOmanHill]

The Broadway theatre community has a slew of backstage "no-no's": most notably do NOT whistle inside the theatre and do NOT mention the name of that "Scottish play"!

Sports seem to have quite a bit as well. I have heard of certain players getting dressed and undressed in a certain "order", not shaving for important games, and no crossed sticks in the locker room (hockey).

 

[Aphrodisiac]

Cats

I would have to say the one if you see a black cat cross your path & you are in your car. You are suppose to make an X with saliva on the windshield.

 

[Black_Bird]

The Broadway theatre community has a slew of backstage "no-no's": most notably do NOT whistle inside the theatre and do NOT mention the name of that "Scottish play"!

I've got some acting friends... mind sharing with me the name of that play?http://216.40.201.155/s/cwm/alien/ho.gif

 

[android1966]

MAGPIES

Seems pretty stupid, but when I see magpies I still say the rhyme: One for sorrow, two for joy
Three for a girl, four for a boy.
Five for silver, six for gold.
Seven for a secret never to be told.

 

[Azwed]

I've got some acting friends... mind sharing with me the name of that play?http://216.40.201.155/s/cwm/alien/ho.gif

I think she means MacBeth.

 

[lovetoread]

I um...still to this day...dont step on cracks in the sidewalk if I can help it.

I havent seen my mom in years,but I dont want to break her back.

 

[unclej]

when i was growing up it was common for folks to think that eating fish and drinking milk at the same time would make you deathly ill...as late as the late 1800's many people thought that tomatos were poison...my silliliest but at the same time most enjoyable superstition has to do with going fishing..no matter how early you hit the lake you need to open a beer and pour a little into the water as an offering to the fish manitous...'course then you might as well go ahead and drink the rest of it...let's go fishin'

.....................................
makin' ripples

 

[riff]

That I was somebody.

 

[riff]

After james wright

There was this
and there was a
a thing
about
and it became
like it was
and now
like it is

I have wasted my life.

 

[Calamity Jane]

That tickling children will make them stutter. My grandmother used to yell at my mom every time she saw her tickling us kids.

I always clean my house from top to bottom and front to back... and take sweepings directly outside, rather than putting them in the garbage.

 

[erosman]

A few years ago,

while living in the central regions of Africa, a man from the local village relayed to me - in all seriousness - that the rooster teaches the hens how to lay eggs. He supported this idea with the fact that there are smaller eggs that are found when a hen/pullet begins to lay eggs. It was very consistent with their overall chauvinistic attitudes. There was no convincing him otherwise either.

 

[Wiggles]

A few that come to mind....

Peeling an apple skin into a long curly and throwing it behind you will reveal the name of the person that loves you. (Whatever shape it falls in).

While bending off your pop tab, say the alphabet. The letter it snaps off on is the name of your next lover.

Stepping on a crack will break your mothers back. Sometimes I find myself actually trying not to step on the cracks!

If you have an unburnt candle wick in your house it will give you bad luck. (I actually do this)

 

[carrie-on]

My mother always said that if your nose itched you were going to get company.
my mother-in-law said that if your nose itched,you were going to kiss a blue-eyed fool. (I tend to think it was because my father-in-law had blue eyes.)

 

[Desdemona]

I know someone who actually thinks that yellow is an unlucky color. He refuses to have anything yellow in his house if he can avoid it.

 

[bored1]

The most ridiculas thing I have heard is that in South Africa some of the men believe that if you have sex with a virgin it will make you safe from HIV........... So all these young girls are being raped.........A serious case of misinformation.................

 

[JennyOmanHill]

We're NOT in a theatre, so...

I've got some acting friends... mind sharing with me the name of that play?http://216.40.201.155/s/cwm/alien/ho.gif

http://www.fivestarsupport.com/thebard/macbeth.gif

Seems there was a riot caused one season when two productions of this were playing simultaneously on Broadway, one starring an American actor, the other a British actor. No other production of this has been very successful either!

Another theatre superstition is to always leave a "ghost light" lit on stage when the rest of the theatre is dark so that a stage will never go "empty".

http://www.lucinda.net/redstuff/graphics/ghost_light2.jpg

 

[Spinaroonie]

My mom saw that lame movie Hackers one day and now she thinks I'm using my computer to steal credit card numbers and stuff.

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