Superstitions.

Something Dandysmom said made me wonder about superstitions, People in every Country in the World have different superstitions, and probably every State, Provence, and County. I really only have one...The number thirteen, I would never live in a house numbered thirteen, or back a Horse of the same number. A lot of Horse betting People are very superstitious, I knew a chap in the Bookies and when he wrote out his bet he would painstakingly draw a little four leaf clover on the bottom right corner of the betting slip, don't know if it worked or not, he was a very secretive Fellow.
Have you any particular superstition?.

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I don't believe in them personally and I don't give a monkeys for all that tosh, but a good friend of mine believed in just about every one that you could think of, and most of the time was a nervous wreck through it!
I don't think he ever got through a day without fear, it was either the wrong date, he'd seen the wrong colour cat, ladders, ambulances, you name it, and the most worrying part was that he was a professional pilot... (but I never flew with him)

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Ha!, I love it Barry, "This is your Pilot speaking, we can't land , there's a black cat on the runway".

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I read this years ago and cannot vouch if it is true.

In the British Navy the unlucky day was Friday( no ship should sail on a Friday) the unlucky number was 13(no ship should set sail on the 13), the Lords at the admiralty wanted to stop this superstition.

So the built a ship called Friday they launched it on a Friday.

The ship set of on its maidan voyage on Friday the 13 Captained by a man called Friday.


The Ship and its crew where never seen again

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I would be inclined to believe that Galty, wasn't there also something about being third on a match when lighting a fag?, I remember my Dad saying it was something to do with the soldiers in the trench's in the first World war. His Dad was killed in that war.

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Don't have any superstitions myself....have never believed in them.....

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That is true.

It was said that a sniper would see the match ignite and if a third person lighted his fag the sniper killed him... all within 2 seconds

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My Dad told me that too, jemflux;said it was because the time it took to light 3 cigarettes in the darkness in a trench a sniper could draw a bead on you and fire. Sounds logical ... and though we were never plagued with snipers I never would do three on a match ... yes, silly, I know

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I also won't walk under a ladder, I throw spilled salt over my left shoulder, and am wary on Friday the 13th. But me superstitious ...good heavens no!!

Good thread!!

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Never really bother with them, they are a bit like the Horoscopes.

The business about Friday 13th being unlucky, well over here it's Tuesday 13th that supposed to be unlucky. So one has to be wrong.................

We have a friend who believes that the only true fact in a newspaper are the horoscopes. She spends €50 a time consulting her clairvoyant for advice on what to do. Her successful business is currently up for sale, as this is what this charlatan has told her to do.