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Superstitions - Some Interesting Ones, Possible Origins and Some Immediate Consequences

Most people deny passionately about being superstitious at all but when behaviors are scrutinized it seems that a great deal of people are indeed very cautious where situations associated with superstitions are concerned.

The best known one to all must be the Friday, the thirteenth, bad luck situation where many, if not most people will postpone signing a contract to the next Monday, try not to travel long distances and try not to make high expense purchases. Others though, especially those born on day thirteen, believe it is their lucky day where all goes well for them.

Another well known superstition is that something bad will happen to someone who passes through underneath a ladder. Immediate consequences here seems that, when somebody is standing on the ladder, working, the passer-by underneath might find a hammer or a can of paint bouncing off his head, dropped by accident. Looking at it from this angle this seems like a safety measure rather than a superstition. Falling objects may have been the origin of this one.

A black cat crossing the road in front of a traveler is a warning of evil, but, if the black cat, having passed the road, does not stop and look directly back at the traveler, the warning is not for him, they say.

If someone, walking in a field, finds a horse shoe, it has one of two meanings; if the finder approaches from the open end of the horse shoe, good luck awaits him. Approaching from the round side means bad luck for the finder. One possible meaning of this superstition may be that something happened to the horse's hoof to loosen his shoe on the way back and the same may happen to the finder if he continues in that direction. Going the same way as the horse may mean the bad situation is behind and it can only go better further on the way.

Something bad will happen if a match is struck and the used match put back into the matchbox. The immediate bad consequence here may be that if the used match is put back into the box, still hot with a glowing coal at the end, the rest of the matches in the box may be ignited by the used one when the coal comes into contact with the sulfur mixture on the other match heads.

Accidents happen in sequences of three; if an accident happens to someone, two more will follow. Believers of this one, with two accidents behind them, and some high risk venture awaits them like racing for instance, they break a piece of crockery as a substitute for accident number three.

These must surely only be the tip of the iceberg on superstitions and thus readers are invited to comment and elaborate on the ones mentioned and/or bring up new ones.

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