Friday 13

[crazyheart]

if you eat black toast, your hair will turn curly - so my dad said. lol

 

[Mendalla]

Then there's the various ones used to enforce certain taboos.

E.g. If you "self-indulge" you'll get hairy palms or go blind.

 

[crazyheart]

@ Mendalla Isn't the going blind true?

 

[Mendalla]

@ Mendalla Isn't the going blind true?

My myopia is hereditary. That's my story and I am sticking to it.

 

[paradox3]

Carrots are good for your eyesight.

 

[paradox3]

If the kutia sticks to the ceiling it means good luck or a bountiful harvest for the upcoming year. Not that we ever tried it - I can't imagine my Grandma allowing her ceiling to be messed up like that!

In our tradition spaghetti sticking to the wall means it is done.

 

[paradox3]

If a bird poops on you it is good luck.

 

[Seeler]

Carrots ARE good for eyesight.

Always put money in a purse you are giving as a gift. It can get expensive. We gave Granddaughter a purse for Christmas. I put $20 in it. ThenI noticed the little matching change purse. Put a toonie in it.

 

[paradox3]

It is lucky to find a four-leafed clover.

 

[Luce NDs]

It is lucky to find a four-leafed clover.

Most are Trinitarian believing the forth is the fire tender Dan ... he stokes the fires ... beneath the visible horizon ...

 

[Hilary]

I heard you shouldn't choose your own fortune cookie.

 

[Luce NDs]

Fortunes are doled out as crumbs to the subtle hosts as ugly hoards to the elite ...

 

[paradox3]

I heard you shouldn't choose your own fortune cookie.

Never heard that one.

 

[Pinga]

oh, you should break your fortune cookie open with one hand.

 

[BetteTheRed]

And I've never heard that one...

 

[paradox3]

It will rain if you kill a spider.

 

[BetteTheRed]

You'll have seven years bad luck if you break a mirror.

 

[Hilary]

"Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue and a silver sixpence in her shoe."
Dad forgot my sixpence in the hotel room. Luckily I'm not superstitious; I was just doing it for a bit of fun.

 

[crazyheart]

Find a pin and pick it up and all the day you'll have good luck.

 

[ChemGal]

Find a pin and pick it up and all the day you'll have good luck.

I always knew that one as penny, not pin.