Superstitions and Old Wives Tales
Thanks to all who shared these with us!

Don't walk under a ladder, it could bring bad luck OR something could 
fall on you!

Friday the 13th is ALWAYS a bad day!

If you find a penny face up, pick it up for good luck.  If it is face down, turn 
it over and leave it for the next person to find and have good luck!

Bad things always happen when there's a full moon!

If you steal from the dead they come back to haunt you until you return what is
stolen.

Always put on your right shoe first!

Never put shoes on the table, they will never be comfortable again

That there's only one true love for each of us!

Whenever you go to a Church for the very first time make 3 wishes. 

Breaking a mirror will bring you 7 years bad luck.

Your kids will turn your hair gray.

Never kiss a girl with green teeth :)

Knocking on wood

In Venezuela they always wear yellow underwear for New Year's Eve! 

Black cats are lucky.

Throw salt over your left shoulder if you spill it!

It's unlucky to have turkey on the table without cranberry sauce.

All bad things happen in threes.

A dog howling (not barking) in the night foretells the death of someone close to you.

On New Years Eve at midnight a male must come in the door first to bring good luck all year.

It is darkest before the dawn

Making a wish and breaking the wishbone of a turkey.

Don't talk about something bad happening to you, lest it may come true.

Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it.

The groom seeing the bride before the wedding is really bad luck!

Each time you see a bale of hay, make a wish and don't look back at it or your wish won't come true.

A bird hitting the window is bad luck...possibly death in family.

Do not kill a ladybug if it is in the house or lands on you.  If you kill it, then you will have bad luck.

Never ever open umbrellas inside!!!

If you plant a weeping willow tree, someone in your family will pass away soon.

If your ears are ringing, someone is talking about you.

Not to hang up next years calendar until the new year comes in.

 Chain Letters

Pound a nail into an elm tree to stop Dutch Elm Disease

If you work on New Years day you will work all year long

If you see a guy dressed in black walk through a house then someone in your
family will die

4 leaf clovers bring good luck

You should not buy any baby needs within the first trimester of pregnancy.

 rocking chair rocking by itself in a room means a death is about to occur

I've always heard that when you dream of manure (polite way of saying of it) you will come into money....

I believe that there is one person born who is our other half or lifemate and until
we find the other half of ourselves we cannot be truly happy.

The rains stop if you see a double rainbow.....

Every time a bell rings a angle gets his wings

If wooly worms have a thick coat, it is going to be a bad winter.

Bury a dishrag on a full moon night, in a graveyard, to get rid of a wart!

Italian superstition that says it is bad luck to have birds of any kind inside your house. 

Every New Years Day we cook black eyed peas for good luck the rest of the year.

I believe it's unlucky to have peacock feathers in the house. They have the evil eye on them.

Lightening doesn't strike twice in the same place (suuuure it doesn't)

Don't tell anyone your dream/nightmare before eating breakfast in the morning or it will come true! 

Do not change seats on an airplane.

Give a pocket knife back to the person that gave it to you in the same position as it was handed, or the person will loose the knife.

Step on a crack, break your momma's back!

Wishing on a star!

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