Discover How Many Of These 32 Superstitions You’ve Been Following All Along Without Knowing

My dad taught me the basic ropes of a three /four player card game called "Skat" -pretty popular in the G.D.R. - one day when I was around 12/13. Then we played with him behind me giving some strategic advice. Then my first "all alone" game, I won. I told him I had all 4"Unter"(Boys) of each colour + almost a complete colour straight down from "A*s/Daus" (Ace) to "7"(lowest card) + the rest were Aces from the other colours. He blanched and told me "Oh. This is soooo rare that some players NEVER get dealt that combination that I wanted to explain it to you later, in the finer prints. You could have played even a so called "Grand Hand ouvert" , won it 100%, had earned 264points and would have won each Skat competition."

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They obviously CAN the question is SHOULD they?

‘Touching the cross’, to touch wood is to bring yourself closer to Jesus. So, you guessed it, it’s balderdash.

I thought it was just the groom that wasn't supposed to see it

Well, "I pick it up but not for "luck" reasons " would have been a nice third poll choice, IMHO.

I was born on Good Friday the 13th.

This more about safety.

It's just fun.

Self fulfilled prophecy. You find the three that fit together. Then you mention that there’s been three incidents and stop thinking about it.

From the days of mirrors costing a serious amount of money, 7 years to raise the funds to buy another mirror.

I've never seen one, sadly

I don't know about good luck, but it gets a lot of spit on the cake

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I know, of course that this is not true. Notwithstanding, I like the custom and I wear an evil eye charm as well as have a few around my house because I think it’s a fun bit of my culture.

It's pretty much downgraded to a sign meaning you hope something will or will not happen

The devil is over your left shoulder, throw the salt into his eyes. So once again, balderdash.

That's just something we say to make us feel better about being pooped on

Water is life. Best way to celebrate. Be grateful for water 💧 what if it was limited?

I don't kill spiders because spiders kill the bugs in my house that would actually cause me problems. Like mosquitos.

"This is nonsense-a cat is just a cat"...enraged cats everywhere sharpen their claws on the nearest bit of expensive woodwork

It's still disrespectful.

If you give a coin in return for the knife then you're not being given the knife, you're buying it.

This is a new one to me.

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Sure, if someone walks off with it and you don't notice.

if it were true my ears would burn a lot more than they do🙁

According to QI, the number should actually be 616.

In germany we say "Gesundheit", basically means "Health", so we wish health to someone sneezing. No superstition at all.

Again, it's obviously BS, but I will be sitting at the corner of tables, just to be safe

Ive always thought it means you have to scratch your hand.

I only know the German proverb "Glück und Glas, wie leicht bricht das." (Luck and glass, how easily both break.")

Have heard its bad luck to whistle indoors but I've always thought it's just to make sure people don't annoy you by, well, whistling indoors!!!

Wow, a lot of people must have stepped over me when I was a kid. I really did stop growing for a while, doctor said I'll catch up, but I only made it to 4'10" so maybe there was a residual effect, LOL.

Only ever heard this in relation to getting or losing money. Can't remember which hand is which though.