Because someone may be working on it above you, and they could drop something, or, the ladder could fall.
There is a superstition that is it bad luck to walk underneath of a ladder. Unless the ladder falls on you, nothing will happen if you walk under one. However, it is probably best to just walk around the ladder.
you pick it, and walk backward, so you don't walk through the ladder, you will still be lucky!
The ladder could fall on you. The person on the ladder could fall on you. You could knock the person on the ladder off it. The person on the ladder could drop something on you.
In the days before the gallows, criminals were hung from the top rung of a ladder and their spirits were believed to linger underneath. Common folklore has it to be bad luck to walk beneath an open ladder and pass through the triangle of evil ghosts and spirits.
A) Walk under a ladder B) Break a mirror
Yes! If you walk under a rotten termite filled wooden ladder, watch out! It might fall on you!
It is a supersticious belief that it is bad luck to do so
"touch wood""don't walk under a ladder"
Criminals used to be hung from the top rung of a ladder and their spirits were believed to linger underneath. Common folklore has it to be bad luck to walk beneath an open ladder and pass through the triangle of evil ghosts and spirits.
Walk through, walk over or walk under. The opposite will always involve doing the thing that walking around it would avoid."We walked around the lake""We walked through the lake""We walked around the mountain""We walked over the mountain""We walked around the ladder""We walked under the ladder"
Criminals used to be hung from the top rung of a ladder and their spirits were believed to linger underneath. Common folklore has it to be bad luck to walk beneath an open ladder and pass through the triangle of evil ghosts and spirits.
If you walk under a ladder you get bad luck If you crack a mirror you have 7 years bad luck If you open an umbrella inside you have bad luck If you put your shoes on a table you have bad luck