Black cats and Voodoo Dolls

I was visiting my grandmother last week and she made Boyfriend and me some breakfast for dinner. My favorite thing ever! I love pancakes at 6:00 in the evening.

Anyways, I had the song, “Can’t always get what you want” in my head and kept humming it while sitting at the table. She finally yelled at me and said, “You cannot sing at the table. It is bad luck.”

It got me thinking. My grandmother thinks that EVERYTHING is bad luck. For instance, you cannot burst a balloon in the house, break a mirror, open an umbrella, walk under a ladder or cross paths with a black cat without catching some bad luck.

The only superstition I have is that you cannot say something like, “I’ve never been in a car accident” without immediately knocking on wood afterwards. But I wondered. What were some other superstitions? I resorted to Google.

Seeing an ambulance is very unlucky unless you pinch your nose or hold your breath until you see a black or a brown dog. {This could be deadly. Carry a black or brown dog with you at all times}

It's bad luck to put a hat on a bed.

If you make a bedspread, or a quilt, be sure to finish it or marriage will never come to you {I never finish what I start. Thank god I can’t sew}

If you say good-bye to a friend on a bridge, you will never see each other again.

Do not lean a broom against a bed. The evil spirits in the broom will cast a spell on the bed. {Hmm, I just thought those were dust bunnies}

To drop a comb while you are combing your hair is a sign of a coming disappointment. {Oh dear, I just did that this morning}

A cricket in the house brings good luck. {But is annoying as Hell}

For good luck throughout the year, wear new clothes on Easter. {Any excuse is a good excuse to shop for new clothes!}

If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck . Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore Bundy and Albert De Salvo all have 13 letters in their names. {I counted. I’m safe with 19}

If you use the same pencil to take a test that you used for studying for the test, the pencil will remember the answers. {Smart pencil, it is.}

If 3 people are photographed together, the one in the middle will die first. {WHAT?!? I have like tons of photos with myself in the middle.}

If you leave a rocking chair rocking when empty, it invites evil spirits to come into your house to sit in the rocking chair.

A spider is a repellent against plague when worn around the neck in a walnut shell. {Bring on the plague, because there is no way in Hell I’m doing that.}

 
 
 
 
 
P.S. Sang that freakin' Ricky Martin song through this whole post.

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