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[Malcontent]

My granddaughter informed me earlier today that I am very superstitious.

I am not! (knocks on wood).

Anybody else here accused of being superstitious?

[Love my grandkids]

@Malcontent Nope. Never have been. I think superstitions are just silly.

[Desert Lily]

My grandparents were very superstitious. They threw salt over their shoulder if it spilled, believed a dead bird in the yard meant someone in the family was going to die, would never walk under a ladder, would never open an umbrella in the house, and thought the world was going to end when they were kids.

I think a little of it rubbed off on me. I try to use prime numbers when I can; I get a "feeling" that something will happen, etc. Maybe we call it something else these days: intuition, etc.

[phoenixbrd]

Synchronicity and intuition...yes

Superstitious....no

[SurferWife]

No, not in the least.  Pure silliness.

[Kachina624]

No never.  I'm too practical and down to earth.  I'm the last person who'd be accused of being superstitious.

[CoffeeNut]

My great aunt was.  I remember as a child we were driving down a neighborhood road and she suddenly slammed on the brakes and did a U-turn in the middle of the road.  She saw a black cat crossing the street ahead. I will never ever forget that. 

[alliswell]

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@Malcontent wrote:

My granddaughter informed me earlier today that I am very superstitious.

I am not! (knocks on wood).

Anybody else here accused of being superstitious?

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As Stevie Wonder wrote and sang:  "When you believe in things that you don't understand, Then you suffer,

Superstition ain't the way, No, no, no."

[January121]

I am very superstitious & it doesn't bother me one bit!!!😁🐱🐱

[amyb]

I am! And yet, not too seriously as I really believe in a higher power more than the silly superstitions. But it's just a funny cultural, family tradition to me. Lol...ingrained with old world Italian grandparents who passed them to my mom who passed them to me. The ones that come to mind...

*Don't put new shoes (the new shoe box) on the table!

*Don't walk under a ladder.

*If you drop various silverware utensals it means different things I can never keep straight...such as a spoon meant "company's coming", a fork meant you're going to have a fight with someone.

*Mom would always say~"Make a wish on the hay!".. is one of my favs that I do to this day...when you pass bales or stacks of hay at a farm or on a truck...Make a wish! (I usually follow it with "please God"...so there's that.)

*Don't open an umbrella under a roof!

*Yes I knock wood, or my head when wood's not around. (side note, never more than then do you realize how much things just aren't made like they used to be than when you try to find something that is actual wood near you!)

And I'm sure there's others...but those are the ones I still do or "don't do!" due to mom ingraining them.

Is it silly...of course! Like I said...just old familial traditions and habits I don't mind adhering to, and only take a little seriously...after all....I've broken my share of mirrors and didn't feel I had 7 years bad luck either. 

oh yea...🐈‍⬛ 😉