According to writer Raymond Lamont Brown: “Superstition is a belief, or system of beliefs, by which almost religious veneration is attached to things mostly secular; a parody of religious faith in which there is belief in an occult or magic connection.”
It’s Friday the 13th today so I thought I’d see how many of you out there are superstitious. I definitely believe a full moon effects people. (I can usually tell when it’s a full moon when I’m at work even without looking at the moon.) Some things I don’t pay attention to. Like the 7 years of bad luck if you break a mirror, that doesn’t worry me. But I do admit to always throwing spilled salt over my shoulder. I personally think a black cat crossing my path is Good Luck. I believe it’s all in the power of out minds to make things lucky or unlucky.
What about you? Do any of you always throw spilled salt over your shoulder? Freak out when you break a mirror? Do you have a lucky number or a lucky charm?
😀 The only time a black cat crossing your path is bad luck is when you trip on them…I think there are 3 in the barn right now, they have lovely shiney coats. I have a cousin who answer 911 in Grande Prairie and she says calls are up on full mooons. My daughter that is a mat nurse says delivery is also up on a full moon, that has something to do with the pull of the tides :D.
I don’t have a lucky number but favorites are 15 and 69 :hehe:, dont do the salt thing and again breaking mirrors are only bad luck if you cut yourself on them.
Dianna is that cousin in Texas??? 😛
No not really superstitious except like for Mercury Retrograde :blush:
Well, hey I’m not superstitious as such, but I have a healthy respect for something infinitely more powerful than us (no, not the IRS) and I *do* throw salt over my shoulder when I cook, and I have this thing about mirrors. Last time we disposed of one, I had to carefully take it out of the house to our rubbish bin, and *very* carefully lowered it inside – it didn’t crack, so I was spared the bad luck – if the garbage collectors broke it in transit, that was *their* problem 🙂
Both my father and my first love were born on Friday the 13th. My parents got married on Friday the 13th, too. I consider it a lucky day 🙂
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Born on Fiday the 13 th huh? Married on it? Exellent! The stuff stories are made of!:D
Coffeetalk, Friday, August 13th, 2004.
Well, lookee here what day it is. Friday, the 13th. I think I’ll re-hash a commentary I did on the subject a few years ago.
Superstitions associating both Fridays and the number 13 go back to ancient times with some sources pinpointing the two to a specific historical event. For example, the rounding up of the Knights Templar for torture and execution by King Philip the 4th of France happened on Friday, October 13th, 1307
Fear of the number 13 hangs on in the back of our minds even today. May buildings don’t have a floor numbered 13. For years, many sports teams didn’t have a jersey numbered 13, although you do see a few around today.
The answer to what’s with the number 13 may be Biblical. 13 gathered for the last Supper where Jesus announced he would be betrayed. Since then there has been a myth that if 13 people sit down for supper, the first person to get up from the table will die within a year ( note for home…never have dinner party for 13…everybody will still be sitting in their chairs at the table when the morning sun comes up).
Ever wondered why we stop at the 12 times table in school? There is no reason why we do that except for inherited instinct. Apparently the mind of primitive humans couldn’t comprehend anything beyond 12 ( heck…we modern-day amateur golfers can’t comprehend any number beyond 9!). Anyway, 13 stood for something unknown. Unknown meaning possibly dangerous, potentially fateful, a number full of vague and unimagined possibilities and therefore to be avoided.
And, Friday itself has a bad rep. It was on a Friday, supposedly, that Eve tempted Adam with the forbidden fruit, after which, as we know, they were tossed out of Paradise. Tradition holds the great Flood began on a Friday. The Temple of Solomon was destroyed on a Friday. Christ was crucified on a Friday. In ancient Rome, Friday was execution day, later it was Hangman’s day in Britain. In many pagan cultures, Friday was a day of worship so the early Christian church went to great lengths to say it must therefore be the opposite for Christians and in the middle ages Friday became known as the witches Sabbath.
Down through the ages comes the notion that one should not start a new project on a Friday. Maybe that’s why so many people either take the day off or at least leave work early.
That’s Coffeetalk. I’m Vic Dubois.
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