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We have all heard the Old Wives Tales, "they say" things and the superstitions.
List at least 3, you can list more if you want, of things you have heard.
"Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck." I didn't understand when I was younger why this was good luck; now I do, as it's a rather dated/old expression, from when a penny was good luck and not a pocketweight. This one reaches me; I tend to pick up found pennies even if I have no earthly use for a penny. (It doesn't say that you can't put it back down, though, and I figure dropping it into the charity jars at the grocery store is a tiny beginning of good luck for someone else, too.)
"Step on a crack, break your mother's back." A child's superstition. I believed it wholeheartedly about half the time when I was young; I'd carefully dodge cracks. On the other hand, the rest of the time I didn't even think about it. I understood, at some level, that I was humoring it, I think, when it bugged me.
"If a black cat crosses your path, it's bad luck." Especially if it's the ever-pushy Basta...but anyway....
And a fourth one for free: "Breaking a mirror means seven years of bad luck." Unless you replace the carpet the shards landed in, it very well might. :P
List at least 3, you can list more if you want, of things you have heard.
"Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck." I didn't understand when I was younger why this was good luck; now I do, as it's a rather dated/old expression, from when a penny was good luck and not a pocketweight. This one reaches me; I tend to pick up found pennies even if I have no earthly use for a penny. (It doesn't say that you can't put it back down, though, and I figure dropping it into the charity jars at the grocery store is a tiny beginning of good luck for someone else, too.)
"Step on a crack, break your mother's back." A child's superstition. I believed it wholeheartedly about half the time when I was young; I'd carefully dodge cracks. On the other hand, the rest of the time I didn't even think about it. I understood, at some level, that I was humoring it, I think, when it bugged me.
"If a black cat crosses your path, it's bad luck." Especially if it's the ever-pushy Basta...but anyway....
And a fourth one for free: "Breaking a mirror means seven years of bad luck." Unless you replace the carpet the shards landed in, it very well might. :P
