What are you superstitious about?

[Kaysea]

and lift my feet going over railroad crossings.

OMG!!  My daughter and her friend do that and squeal at the same time.  I'm sure the squeal is because one of them is always driving at the same time, and its a bit of a tempting fate kind of thing....

[PastMember]

* Don't whistle at night or you will call out the snakes.

Eimi there is a simialr superstition on ships... no whistling because it will bring on a storm ("whistling up the wind")!

[Vix]

Actually, I'm not a very superstitious person. I've always had black cats, so that's not an issue. I've stepped on cracks and my mother never had a broken back. Friday the 13th doesn't really weird me out (and there will be one of those in less than 2 weeks!). I occasionally knock on wood, but that's it.

On the other hand, I don't feel that all of that makes me a very logical person. I just don't worry about such things -- there are much more concrete situations for me to worry about.

[Rochelle]

I'm not sure how superstitious I am, but I do believe that good and bad things happen in threes, so when things go from bad to worse I'm always waiting for the last hit. Murphy's law is also a ruling factor of my universe!

I also talk to, encourage, and threaten my electronics as if they were people, carry a lucky stone in my purse (this is actually done by my whole family though, even my brother has one in his wallet), and have my doors, windows, and mirrors blessed to prevent bad feelings from entering or being multiplied through reflection (again, a family thing, although I've read about it elsewhere). If I feel nervous suddenly for no reason in a room, I tend to check a mirror to see if there is something there that I can't see otherwise.

Other that than, I don't think I'm really superstitious. I watch where I step, but it's not a crisis if I step on a crack, step on a bug, break a mirror, go under a ladder, or have a black cat cross my path (actually, I own one so this would be a bad thing to be afraid of!). Although I know a lot of people who knock on wood, I tend to avoid saying things that might cause people to do so, although I have been known to knock if someone else reminds me. I think that crossing your fingers is a cowards way out of taking responsibility for their words, and salt over the shoulder seems like a waste of my favorite french fry topping.  :alien:

[Rochelle]

I take the comment back about not being very superstitious. My father just called and asked me to check which direction the potted tree was growing.

My parents had a small tree on either side of the altar when they married, and the belief is that whenever we're about to move again (which is frequently), the tree starts growing in the direction we're moving.

The sad part is that this is often considered the only reliable indication of where we're moving, as the military has changed our orders so often that it makes as much sense as anything else.

Actually, there is another one related to the tree -as long as it flourishes so will my parent's marriage. This dates from the time it was at my grandfathers, and it grew so tall that he took a chainsaw to it before it hit the ceiling. The day after my parents started having marriage troubles, which lasted until it started growing again...

[PastMember]

I almost forgot about the eyelash thing! If I find that one of my eyelashes has fallen out I always make a wish on it then blow it away... I think that one goes back to high school. I'm not even certain if it is a popular tradition... I just know that another girl taught it to me.

[PastMember]

Oh! I just remembered another one... Full Moons are always _weird_ times. Totally random, odd things seem to happen.

[Patrick]

I just remembered a big one with me.  You know the old sailor saying: "Red sky at night sailors delight, red sky in morning sailors take warning." Right?  Well that one has proved true to me every time.  It may not have been a natural storm, but something big has always happened when the morning sky is a rosy hue.

[Paula]

I just remembered a big one with me.  You know the old sailor saying: "Red sky at night sailors delight, red sky in morning sailors take warning." Right?  Well that one has proved true to me every time.  It may not have been a natural storm, but something big has always happened when the morning sky is a rosy hue.

That's weather prediction, not superstition. We have a saying here in Finland that translates roughly to: Morning dawn wets the shirt, evening dawn rises the wind. (meaning the rosy red dawn, not the usual ones.)

[Kaysea]

I almost forgot about the eyelash thing! If I find that one of my eyelashes has fallen out I always make a wish on it then blow it away... I think that one goes back to high school. I'm not even certain if it is a popular tradition... I just know that another girl taught it to me.

I've heard of this one, but never practised it.

[Kaysea]

I just remembered a big one with me.  You know the old sailor saying: "Red sky at night sailors delight, red sky in morning sailors take warning." Right?  Well that one has proved true to me every time.  It may not have been a natural storm, but something big has always happened when the morning sky is a rosy hue.

Almost the same, but I always said shepherds delight and shepherds take warning.

[Kaysea]

Oh! I just remembered another one... Full Moons are always _weird_ times. Totally random, odd things seem to happen.

I love full moons. There's one outside tonight.  And last night when we were saying goodbye to Mel, Cailee was looking up over the top of the house and saying "Hello Mr Moon."  It was so funny.  She loves the stars and the moon.

[Yvonne]

Oh! I just remembered another one... Full Moons are always _weird_ times. Totally random, odd things seem to happen.

I don't know what it is... I work in retail sometimes (I have many talents) and I swear that there are Moon People. The weirdos who only come out near a full moon. They tend to either talk your ear off about bizzare things or get really, really angry over nothing and completely over-react, or simply set off your weirdo detector.