Saturday question #40: Superstition
Yesterday was Friday, the 13th. Just like in February, just like in March. Since there can't be a Saturday question on a Friday, this one is about Friday the 13th, black cats, walking under ladders and all the other little silly things that might be important to some while they're ridiculous for others.
Are you superstitious? About what? Are there any things you avoid because of superstition?
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I don’t try to avoid any things like those mentioned but i have noticed that every time the day, month and year are in the line (like for example this years 9th of september: 09.09.09) something extremely good or bad happens to me, usually bad. This year I broke my leg and lost my job the same day…
It’s pretty hard and stupid trying to avoid a spesific date but there’s only 12 of these days every 100 year:D
As an atheist, rationalist and realist person, I tend to avoid superstition. But I was born in a tuesday the 13th, which is Spanish equivalent to Friday the 13th, and I consider myself an extremely unlucky person, likely to fail, mostly because of things completely out of my control. I’m unfairly unlucky, and born in the unfairly unlucky day… correlation doesn’t imply causation but it’s the most rational explanation.
I didn’t understand any of that.
short version:
I am not superstitious
tuesday 13th (spain) = friday 13th (other countries)
I am a spaniard and was born on tuesday 13th
I am heavily unlucky => makes me doubt about truth about superstitions.
no, I’m not
I try to be as much rational as I can. I’m a catholic, by the way…
i fly a a ladder around
I keep an evil eye hung up anywhere I live. My grandmother was Greek, so it comes from that culture. Seriously we couldn’t sell our old house once we moved into this one, and then when we remembered to put up the evil eye, we did, and it sold the next week.
I try to keep a dollar or two in every purse or wallet I have, and if you give a purse or wallet as a gift you can’t give it without at least a little bit of money in it.
I also try to keep a $2 bill in my wallet. We only had $2 for a very short time, they are kind of rare. I don’t know how widespread this is amongst all Latinos/Latinas here in the US but the ones here in Florida have this tradition. One of my Puerto Rican friends told me “if you always keep a $2 bill in your wallet it will never be the only thing in there”
And a southern US superstition…you eat collard greens and black eyed peas on new years day or you’ll have bad luck the whole following year and money troubles (people say the green in the collard greens represents money…) I personally think collard greens and black eyed peas are DELICIOUS, by the way.
I am supersitious about the Philadelphia airport (which I have flown into like…4 times? Once to actually stay in Philly and the others as a connection to other cities…once I actually MISSED my connection due to delays…I have had bad luck and will try not to fly into that airport again) My parents don’t like the Boston airport, my mom got sick when they went to Boston starting in the landing of their plane. I have visited Boston, like once when I flew to Maine to visit a friend living in Maine, and my friend drove us down to Boston for a weekend. I love the city but I think I would never fly into that airport.
No, I'm not superstitious.