Are you superstitious? If you are how superstitious are you? Good? Bad? Indifferent?

[WinniBug]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

Many superstitions actually are common sense - you don't want to walk under a ladder because you may knock it over, or something can fall (a can of paint, etc.) on your head. They are very rational - and even ones that don't seem to make much sense (sports players who have "lucky" underwear, shoes, etc.) actually are rational in the sense that they see a causal relationship (trying to recreate all the elements of a successful game.) When they become divorced from their origins they then appear irrational.

Not walking under a ladder stemmed from a Christian superstition....it was believed that if you walked under a ladder, you were splitting the Holy Trinity and therefore no better than the devil.



I kiss my hand and hit the ceiling of my car when I drive under a yellow light, I make wishes at 11:11, I knock on wood (or wood paneling) so I don't jinx good luck, I don't pick up pennies that are tail-up, if I spill salt I pick some up and toss it over my shoulder, I make a wish on the first star I see at night, if someone's taking an important test I tell them to "break a pencil lead" for good luck instead of "break a leg", before I got married I would take a piece of groom's cake home from weddings and put it under my pillow, I've never bought a Claddagh ring for myself, If your ear's ringing someone's talking about you, and if you nose itches someone's thinking about you, if my necklace clasp comes around to the front I kiss it and make a wish, I make wishes on my eyelashes, I didn't let Joel see me the day of our wedding until I was walking down to aisle towards him, I say "God Bless You" when people sneeze....

Wow, I didn't think I was superstitious at all until I started making my list.

[SWTXBelle]

Originally Posted by WinniBug

Not walking under a ladder stemmed from a Christian superstition....it was believed that if you walked under a ladder, you were splitting the Holy Trinity and therefore no better than the devil.

I'm trying to figure out how a ladder - with two parts, or four if you count each leg - represents the Holy TRINITY . . . hmmmmm . . . do you know from which country this came from? I'm interested.

[WinniBug]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I'm trying to figure out how a ladder - with two parts, or four if you count each leg - represents the Holy TRINITY . . . hmmmmm . . . do you know from which country this came from? I'm interested.

[SWTXBelle]

A-ha!