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Posted: 29-07-2004 12:05 Post subject:

In my deepest self, I know it has no effect ( there are so many damn magpies around here that I'm lucky I have no superstitions regarding them) , but there's that little niggling, ' what if ' that flashes on at some moments. Having had the unverse fequently drop piles of ill fortune on my head, I ' know ' that sticking a finger up at the whole thing would result in something walloping me over the head. Smile

Posted: 29-07-2004 12:16 Post subject:

My personal superstition about angels being associated with death springs from religious teaching in my childhood that people who die are chosen and sent to become angels. This idea fills me with deep horror even now and gave me nightmares as a child.

I don't think it's even a real superstition, except that I hated to hear people call my children angels when they were small.
'Angel' is a common compliment here up north for well-behaved or pretty children.
Seemed like tempting fate, as if 'someone' might hear that they had suitably angelic qualities and whisk them away. Eek Eek

Posted: 29-07-2004 12:22 Post subject:

Fair enough.

I must admit to the though occuring when I see pairs of magpies, that were I superstitious, that would be lucky, but that's as far as I go.

I was just wondering whether people actually took them seriously. I do think however that in certian cases, extreme superstition is actually OC disorder begining to manifest itself outwardly.

LD

Posted: 29-07-2004 12:25 Post subject:

Posted: 29-07-2004 12:48 Post subject:

I only hail a magpie if it is on its own. There's a rhyme I learnt when I was young that expalins the significance of magpies:

One for sorrow,
Two for joy,
Three for a girl,
Four for a boy.

Five for siver,
Six for gold,
And seven for a secret,
Never to be told.

Posted: 29-07-2004 12:55 Post subject:

Posted: 29-07-2004 13:36 Post subject:

Hey I dont make the rules up!

Its true though, I think next time I will just salute........"Major"

Posted: 29-07-2004 13:52 Post subject:

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Posted: 09-10-2005 19:36 Post subject:

And the car...

Posted: 09-10-2005 19:51 Post subject:

I've got a morbid fear of sharks, so I always carry a towel, as someone once told me that sharks only ever attack wet people. Don't know how true that is. Sounds a bit silly to me, but so far, so good!

Posted: 09-10-2005 22:03 Post subject:

It is also said that a lost item will only be found in the last place you look for it.

Why this belief came about, I cannot say.

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Posted: 12-10-2005 22:05 Post subject:

I've noticed in folk songs, often unlucky events happen "in the month of may".

What about the researches that were in the papers a few years back proving that superstitious people were less intelligent? I felt somewhat affronted by that :p

Posted: 13-10-2005 14:38 Post subject:

Im not that superstitious, but I still wont walk under a ladder.
My mum is very superstitious though, she wont pick up a comb or brush if she drops it, she does the salt thing, and she also wont allow certain flowers into the house at certain times of the year. I really dont have a clue as to why though Confused