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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Sept 14, 2019 16:25:55 GMT -5
There was a guy who worked for my dad who was very superstitious. Especially about the number 13. We changed the screensaver on his computer to a bouncing 13 one time and he refused to touch it until we turned it off. Whenever there was a Friday the 13th he would call in sick that day. One year my dad told him on Thursday that if he called in he was fired. So the next day he came to work. The office was at the end of a long service road. This guy always showed up really early. That morning there was so much fog that he missed the office and went off the end of the road into a deep ditch. My dad told him he could just call in from then on. I used to work in conveyance - in the UK at least, there are numerous entire streets that don't have a house numbered 13 because it's considered unlucky. They either have a 12A or jump straight to 15. |
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Post by Kyn on Sept 14, 2019 18:14:59 GMT -5
My grandmother used to insist if you sat too close to a heater, it would cook your liver.
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Post by Malibu Stacy on Sept 14, 2019 19:58:38 GMT -5
My friend's mom believed, in spite of ample evidence to the contrary, that there were no owls in our vicinity. She kept trying to convince us that any owl we thought we saw was really a demon.
One time we had to pay $100 a night extra to upgrade our hotel room cuz my boyfriend refused to stay in the 13th floor room we were originally assigned, citing having a prior bad incident upon previously staying on a 13th floor. He also once pulled over immediately upon exiting our former apt complex to call me and ask to check if the cat he passed on the way out was black or not. Dang cat made a huge show of posing in multiple positions when I went outside to take a look, definitely not black.
For me personally, it has to be the hair thing. I like to do things like tend a garden and feed the birds and stray animals to "gain favor from the fairies". BUT, I can't bring myself to put out hair/dryer lint for the birds to use for nesting material, because my mom was very adamant that "witches will take the hair and use it to cast a spell on you". It becomes extra stupid considering a)my mom and I are Native American and b)I have many close friends who are involved in Paganism/Wiccan... so, WHO exactly are these witches I'm so afraid of???
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Post by Deleted on Sept 14, 2019 22:11:48 GMT -5
Pretty much every superstition when you are watching your favorite sports teams. I have them and everyone I know has them. Unavoidable.
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Post by paulbearer on Sept 14, 2019 22:22:47 GMT -5
Uncomfy with heights (my local bridge is only 30 meters tall but honestly feels much higher to me , not to mention the barely there narrow sidewalks) and even more so after 9/11 (being in tall buildings)
Owen & Brandon Lee : both born 1965 , both died in freak accidents. Considering Owens death its creepy that the ppv was called Over the Edge.
I also think it was a bad omen that Ledgers Joker make up resembled Brandon Lee's....Lee also drove a hearse
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Post by Heartbreaker on Sept 14, 2019 22:52:05 GMT -5
Every culture has weird superstitions. In southern Italy there's the malocchio aka the evil eye. A lot of old Italians who lived near me believed they got "cursed" so they would call my late grandmother who claimed to be able to reverse it. She just used to say some bullshit to convince them they were uncursed because they annoyed the hell out of her.  In Korea they believe that if you have a fan on in a room with closed windows/doors, you'll die. The number 4 is unlucky in Japan and China, as it sounds like "shi" - the word for death. |
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Sept 15, 2019 4:04:46 GMT -5
Pretty much every superstition when you are watching your favorite sports teams. I have them and everyone I know has them. Unavoidable. I have developed this stupid superstition. That my favourite play better if I’m not watching in anyway, or listening it on the radio.. or even following live updates on twitter. I have overcome it somewhat. I still get a little jittery for big matches... but I just accepted if they win they win, if they lose they lose... there is nothing I can do about it. |
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Post by Magnus the Magnificent on Sept 15, 2019 10:05:15 GMT -5
Not numbering buildings or floors as 13 is soo stupid, as it's still the 13th house or floor, even if it isn't named so.
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