Superstitions

LonelyLullaby · 01-19-2006, 11:36 AM

Andrea's thread gave me a whole new idea. I was wondering how many of you guys are superstitious and in what way
If the day starts out bad do you believe that everything from then on will go wrong? If a black cat crosses the road do you turn away to find another road to get where you need? If a mirror breaks or salt spills do you expect something bad to happen? I can be a little superstitious. When salt spills I throw it over my shoulder to prevent anything "bad" from happening even though I'm not sure how much I believe this.. and I never take garbage out at night because it's supposed to affect you "badly" financially.. Also people say that when you dream of sick teeth that are falling out that means that something really bad is either happening far away from you or about to happen and my mother believes that.. whenever she had a dream like this someone that we know has died.. the thing is I don't know if we're making the connection because we're expecting something to happen or if it really is a sign because this usually happens within a few months of her dream.. when I dreamed of sick teeth on the night before New Year's on new years something happened that took away from me one of the people that I cared with all of my heart for.. most of all my best friend.. they weren't harmed but they weren't around after that day anymore either. So do you have any stories or beliefs like that for me? How superstitious are you?
:shock:

bluediamond · 01-19-2006, 01:17 PM

Gemma

Good thread.

Im not supersticious at all - in fact those who know me very well will Know my favourite number is 13 and Friday 13th is my favourite day.

However, i make a point of not walking under ladders. But i think thats more to do with your likely to get covered in paint or something worse lol.

:lalala:
dave.

Little Bird · 01-19-2006, 01:29 PM

It really depends. I am superstitious about walking under ladders or crossing a black cat but I do believe in some things.

For example, I am superstitious that in work, you should never say...'It's quiet isn't it?' coz the phone will then ring and ring and ring.

It's more stuff like that then the old urban myths

Eibhlin · 01-19-2006, 02:24 PM

i have never heard of the not taking your garbage out at night thing...hmm, that may explain some things
i dont put alot of stock into many of the supuerstitions, but for a few years i really didnt drive anywhere on Fri. the 13th unless i absolutely had to, but that stems from the fact that i was in a really horrific accident on a Fri. the 13th.
i believe gut feeling/premonitions though, often they are good warning signs! like the day i had my accident, just before i got to the place where it happened there was very distinctly a warning voice that went off in my head telling me to stop at the movie place first--i was on my way to get money to go rent a movie, so i didnt stop because i thought to myself, well that is silly, why would i stop to pick a movie before i have money. as soon as i passed the movie store the same "voice" was telling me to just pull over and stop in the tunr lane, but i didn't, and then bam a Cadillac cuts across 3 lanes and slams into me, and i was in a wheelchair for 2 months...

so, if a voice in your head tries to tell you to pull over for no good reason...do it!

ROBARE · 01-19-2006, 05:29 PM

I was born midnight on Holloween and my mom was born on friday the 13th,Oh well,I fell what ever one thinks well be. The weaker the spirt the more of a ritual needed.Any priest will tell you that the more they pray the more the sychronized the events.Lonelyluby;sorry about your friend,your lost thier gain,we say goodbye they say Hi. :care:

kjm030584 · 01-19-2006, 05:40 PM

My roommate is pretty superstitious. She does the padiddle thing, and after three it means good sex or something like that. But everything she does she relates to sex in some way or another. I don't put much stock into the whole black cat or breaking a mirror or anything... but I agree with Dave about the ladder thing. :rolleyes:

ROBARE · 01-19-2006, 06:53 PM

OOPS,I read Lonelylullabys thread to fast I thought she said past on.sorry :shudder:

kjm030584 · 01-20-2006, 06:26 PM

it's okay.... as long as it's not bad luck to misread something. :rolleyes:

LonelyLullaby · 01-22-2006, 02:11 PM

Hey guys. I typed up a big whole reply yesterday and the whole thing got deleted..I was so upset that I couldn't touch this board for some time. But in short I was just saying that Kiera-I never say "it can't get worse" because as soon as you say it always does I think even Shakespeare made a point about that through one of his characters and Andrea that I always trust my little intuition voice because I think that I do get a "feeling" when something is about to happen.. I just know it. I think that it's good because it helps me prepare for the "event" and even get over it by the time it comes to that.. I had a bad feeling about the friend (this was a year ago) and not because bad news were expected or something was in question or something bad could happen. It was a completely irrational feeling that ended up preceding the events that happened next and right now I am just scared that if I'll feel something bad coming on again I'll be right too. Also since I started this thread I've entered some kind of black line.. everything goes wrong. Am I being superstitious? :shudder: And ROBARE it's absolutely alright. Better that you read this wrong this time than right

kjm030584 · 01-22-2006, 03:46 PM

uh-oh... I don't know if I read that right or not.... now I'm uneasy.... I think I should stay inside at my computer all day and play on the JKF because something, somewhere, at some time could go wrong. :shock:

ROBARE · 01-22-2006, 07:31 PM

Lonelylullaby; It seems to me that 2006 is going to be a change in your life,(sounds like a horiscope)No realy stop and think of the events that have already happen with the falling out with your friend on New Years .You may like your life with the circle of people in it, but it seems another circle is about start,Your change didn't start with this thread .But a few weeks ago.If you spend time with negative people what do think your life will be like?If you spend it with positive people like JKF :lmao: Any way, if you have a date with fate , you will not be late!

LonelyLullaby · 01-24-2006, 02:01 PM

Heh thanks ROBARE :wub: I guess you have a point there
I just hope that it's a positive change. And Kyle no teasing me :) I really am having a bad week-I really need something to blame that on :devil1: But point taken :k&a:

Veilingmeat · 01-25-2006, 12:00 AM

Hmm, interesting thread this, just read alls comments, and seems a few take most superstitions with a pinch of salt so to speak...but theres always some that you know of and avoid etc, as i do meself, theres tons of those olde Medieval superstitions out there i love like; if you see an owl in the day its bad luck, a bird in the house is a sign of a death, if the person was evil, weeds will grow etc. But walking under ladders i dont do, and if i ever see a black cat...then i see a black cat...and opening umbrellas indoors is bad luck...lol, Maybe so. My superstitions lay in the things i say on a day to day basis, like before i do heavy lifting jobs at work i'v always said "Todays a good day to die" (maybe oneday it wont be) :P and such cant really think of any more but hope you get what i'm ranting on about!?
I think its real strange and interesting the unexplainable superstitios things we do/hear and say, and are brought up with in our life...they've been goin for bleedin years ;)

ShawnShamrock · 01-25-2006, 12:13 AM

I have a black cat I believe it is them white cats that are bad luck

LonelyLullaby · 01-25-2006, 03:19 PM

White cats are gorgeous. I really feel bad for black cats though.. I think people often mistreat them because they're superstitious or won't come up to them and pet them or play with them if they see the cat outside.. they're just too in a hurry to get away :) Before it crosses the road in front of them. I wouldn't want to be a black cat :) But I know what you mean Veilingmeat (by the way I love cats altogether they're my favourite animals and I would never want to treat an animal bad but I can't lie and say that I don't feel uneasy if a black cat did that in front of me.. I'd still cross but not with an easy heart) I've heard this one about the bird and about the umbrella.. I still do those things though.. In all honesty I think "believing makes it so" in many cases but at the same time I don't feel very easy if something happens that a lot of people say will mean trouble in my life :mellow: It's too bad that we believed in things like that for so many years that they still make us uneasy today.. I think we should "grow out of it" as science gives reasons to everything. I do throw salt over my shoulder if I spill it though :) And I do look twice when I cross the road on Fr 13th :doggy:

01-19-2006, 01:17 PM	#2
bluediamond Administrator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: South East England / Russia Posts: 1,692 Rep Power: 10	Gemma Good thread. Im not supersticious at all - in fact those who know me very well will Know my favourite number is 13 and Friday 13th is my favourite day. However, i make a point of not walking under ladders. But i think thats more to do with your likely to get covered in paint or something worse lol. :lalala: dave. __________________ Please clicking a few of these : http://www.HQ13.com http://www.russianradio.info http://www.stabletours.info http://www.personalcleaners.com

01-19-2006, 01:29 PM	#3
Little Bird Administrator Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Wicklow, Ireland Posts: 6,178 Rep Power: 10	It really depends. I am superstitious about walking under ladders or crossing a black cat but I do believe in some things. For example, I am superstitious that in work, you should never say...'It's quiet isn't it?' coz the phone will then ring and ring and ring. It's more stuff like that then the old urban myths __________________ In the end...only kindness matters MysteriousWisdom

01-19-2006, 02:24 PM	#4
Eibhlin Oscillating Fan Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: North Cackalacky Posts: 2,044 Rep Power: 254	i have never heard of the not taking your garbage out at night thing...hmm, that may explain some things i dont put alot of stock into many of the supuerstitions, but for a few years i really didnt drive anywhere on Fri. the 13th unless i absolutely had to, but that stems from the fact that i was in a really horrific accident on a Fri. the 13th. i believe gut feeling/premonitions though, often they are good warning signs! like the day i had my accident, just before i got to the place where it happened there was very distinctly a warning voice that went off in my head telling me to stop at the movie place first--i was on my way to get money to go rent a movie, so i didnt stop because i thought to myself, well that is silly, why would i stop to pick a movie before i have money. as soon as i passed the movie store the same "voice" was telling me to just pull over and stop in the tunr lane, but i didn't, and then bam a Cadillac cuts across 3 lanes and slams into me, and i was in a wheelchair for 2 months... so, if a voice in your head tries to tell you to pull over for no good reason...do it! __________________ I'd like to call you my wild horse and feed you silver sage Andrea an eye for an eye makes the world blind

01-19-2006, 05:40 PM	#6
kjm030584 Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 1,843 Rep Power: 253	My roommate is pretty superstitious. She does the padiddle thing, and after three it means good sex or something like that. But everything she does she relates to sex in some way or another. I don't put much stock into the whole black cat or breaking a mirror or anything... but I agree with Dave about the ladder thing. :rolleyes: __________________

01-20-2006, 06:26 PM	#8
kjm030584 Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 1,843 Rep Power: 253	it's okay.... as long as it's not bad luck to misread something. :rolleyes: __________________

01-19-2006, 11:36 AM	#1
LonelyLullaby Members Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 302 Rep Power: 0	Andrea's thread gave me a whole new idea. I was wondering how many of you guys are superstitious and in what way If the day starts out bad do you believe that everything from then on will go wrong? If a black cat crosses the road do you turn away to find another road to get where you need? If a mirror breaks or salt spills do you expect something bad to happen? I can be a little superstitious. When salt spills I throw it over my shoulder to prevent anything "bad" from happening even though I'm not sure how much I believe this.. and I never take garbage out at night because it's supposed to affect you "badly" financially.. Also people say that when you dream of sick teeth that are falling out that means that something really bad is either happening far away from you or about to happen and my mother believes that.. whenever she had a dream like this someone that we know has died.. the thing is I don't know if we're making the connection because we're expecting something to happen or if it really is a sign because this usually happens within a few months of her dream.. when I dreamed of sick teeth on the night before New Year's on new years something happened that took away from me one of the people that I cared with all of my heart for.. most of all my best friend.. they weren't harmed but they weren't around after that day anymore either. So do you have any stories or beliefs like that for me? How superstitious are you? :shock:

01-19-2006, 05:29 PM	#5
ROBARE JKF Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: lake FL Posts: 226 Rep Power: 227	I was born midnight on Holloween and my mom was born on friday the 13th,Oh well,I fell what ever one thinks well be. The weaker the spirt the more of a ritual needed.Any priest will tell you that the more they pray the more the sychronized the events.Lonelyluby;sorry about your friend,your lost thier gain,we say goodbye they say Hi. :care:

01-19-2006, 06:53 PM	#7
ROBARE JKF Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: lake FL Posts: 226 Rep Power: 227	OOPS,I read Lonelylullabys thread to fast I thought she said past on.sorry :shudder:

01-22-2006, 02:11 PM	#9
LonelyLullaby Members Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 302 Rep Power: 0	Hey guys. I typed up a big whole reply yesterday and the whole thing got deleted..I was so upset that I couldn't touch this board for some time. But in short I was just saying that Kiera-I never say "it can't get worse" because as soon as you say it always does I think even Shakespeare made a point about that through one of his characters and Andrea that I always trust my little intuition voice because I think that I do get a "feeling" when something is about to happen.. I just know it. I think that it's good because it helps me prepare for the "event" and even get over it by the time it comes to that.. I had a bad feeling about the friend (this was a year ago) and not because bad news were expected or something was in question or something bad could happen. It was a completely irrational feeling that ended up preceding the events that happened next and right now I am just scared that if I'll feel something bad coming on again I'll be right too. Also since I started this thread I've entered some kind of black line.. everything goes wrong. Am I being superstitious? :shudder: And ROBARE it's absolutely alright. Better that you read this wrong this time than right

01-22-2006, 03:46 PM	#10
kjm030584 Moderator Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Pennsylvania, USA Posts: 1,843 Rep Power: 253	uh-oh... I don't know if I read that right or not.... now I'm uneasy.... I think I should stay inside at my computer all day and play on the JKF because something, somewhere, at some time could go wrong. :shock: __________________

01-22-2006, 07:31 PM	#11
ROBARE JKF Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: lake FL Posts: 226 Rep Power: 227	Lonelylullaby; It seems to me that 2006 is going to be a change in your life,(sounds like a horiscope)No realy stop and think of the events that have already happen with the falling out with your friend on New Years .You may like your life with the circle of people in it, but it seems another circle is about start,Your change didn't start with this thread .But a few weeks ago.If you spend time with negative people what do think your life will be like?If you spend it with positive people like JKF :lmao: Any way, if you have a date with fate , you will not be late!

01-24-2006, 02:01 PM	#12
LonelyLullaby Members Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 302 Rep Power: 0	Heh thanks ROBARE :wub: I guess you have a point there I just hope that it's a positive change. And Kyle no teasing me :) I really am having a bad week-I really need something to blame that on :devil1: But point taken :k&a:

01-25-2006, 12:00 AM	#13
Veilingmeat Veiling yet very Meaty Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Dismal Euphonic Ol' Blighty! Posts: 885 Rep Power: 0	Hmm, interesting thread this, just read alls comments, and seems a few take most superstitions with a pinch of salt so to speak...but theres always some that you know of and avoid etc, as i do meself, theres tons of those olde Medieval superstitions out there i love like; if you see an owl in the day its bad luck, a bird in the house is a sign of a death, if the person was evil, weeds will grow etc. But walking under ladders i dont do, and if i ever see a black cat...then i see a black cat...and opening umbrellas indoors is bad luck...lol, Maybe so. My superstitions lay in the things i say on a day to day basis, like before i do heavy lifting jobs at work i'v always said "Todays a good day to die" (maybe oneday it wont be) :P and such cant really think of any more but hope you get what i'm ranting on about!? I think its real strange and interesting the unexplainable superstitios things we do/hear and say, and are brought up with in our life...they've been goin for bleedin years ;) __________________ Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all! -Marquis De Sade-

01-25-2006, 12:13 AM	#14
ShawnShamrock Members Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 921 Rep Power: 0	I have a black cat I believe it is them white cats that are bad luck

01-25-2006, 03:19 PM	#15
LonelyLullaby Members Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Canada Posts: 302 Rep Power: 0	White cats are gorgeous. I really feel bad for black cats though.. I think people often mistreat them because they're superstitious or won't come up to them and pet them or play with them if they see the cat outside.. they're just too in a hurry to get away :) Before it crosses the road in front of them. I wouldn't want to be a black cat :) But I know what you mean Veilingmeat (by the way I love cats altogether they're my favourite animals and I would never want to treat an animal bad but I can't lie and say that I don't feel uneasy if a black cat did that in front of me.. I'd still cross but not with an easy heart) I've heard this one about the bird and about the umbrella.. I still do those things though.. In all honesty I think "believing makes it so" in many cases but at the same time I don't feel very easy if something happens that a lot of people say will mean trouble in my life :mellow: It's too bad that we believed in things like that for so many years that they still make us uneasy today.. I think we should "grow out of it" as science gives reasons to everything. I do throw salt over my shoulder if I spill it though :) And I do look twice when I cross the road on Fr 13th :doggy: