Halloween Day 3

[sweetpickles]

Spilling Salt: The roots of this superstition can be traced to the Last Supper. Some believe that Judas, the betrayer of Jesus had spilt salt during the supper. If spilling salt is believed to bring bad luck, throwing some over your left shoulders to ward the bad luck away is advised as a remedy.

[Icefairy2]

seeing an chimney sweeper or touching them brings luck, especially during new year. This superstition es verry old and it is belived that, as the chimney sweeper pretends fire in the house, he brings luck.

[jadeidris]

saying bless you after someone sneezes. even if they do so 3 times in a row. you are supposed to say bless you every time. the superstition is that the devil is sitting at the sneezing person's feet and tickling them to make them sneeze. if you don't say bless you all 3 times then they can take you soul.

[1Shaluv1]

Beginner's Luck = because novice players aren't stressed by the game because they are still learning the rules.

[Esethielle]

in France, we say that to go under a ladder brings bad luck ...
the origin is simple, if there is a ladder against a wall, it is that someone works at height, and therefore it is dangerous to pass under, if a tool was to escape from the hands of the worker, it could hurt the person who goes underneath ..

[Mel]

On New Year's Eve and New Year you should not hang laundry on a leash.

The superstition says: The evil spirits of the old year, who are to be chased away on New Year's Eve night, put themselves in the laundry and they continue to have them around.

[mistybleu]

If you accidentally spills salt, you must immediately throw salt over his left shoulder. origin is because the devil is likely to attack from the rear, and will also attack for the left, or sinister side.

[Titou]

In France
bread upside down on the table : it's the bread of the executioner

[keelyjo]

Opening an umbrella inside is bad luck.
According to superstition, bad luck will rain on you if you open an umbrella indoors. One explanation comes from the days when umbrellas were used as protection from the sun; opening one inside was an insult to the sun god.

[Je9]

"Knock on wood"
one story is that a person will knock their knuckles on a piece of wood to ward off bad luck or a change of luck from good to bad.