Superstitions

The superstition concerning the cutting of hair states that cutting your hair (and nails) during a waning (growing smaller) moon will keep the hair (and nails) from growing out as fast or as strong, and will impact your health adversely; cutting the hair (and nails) during a waxing (growing larger) moon will make the hair (and nails) grow out stronger, and faster as well as having a beneficial effect on your health.

There is no proviso on luck in the superstition.

Rainbows are considered extremely lucky because there is gold at the end. A double rainbow is considered double lucky because their is double the gold at the end. Also, unicorns run on top of rainbows like roads. Thus, a double rainbow is like a unicorn superhighway. As everybody knows unicorns are extremely lucky because of the magic held in their horns. So, a unicorn superhighway, a double rainbow, is basically an area condensed with many magical powers of healing and good luck.

Get a shotgun, a lot of ammo, and a boombox so you can listen to The Final Countdown while fighting for your life.

In most instances, blunt force trauma to the head or neck is effective in dispatching the living dead. If you have time, it is suggested that once a zombie is disabled you should hit it once more to make absolutely sure that it will not cause any more trouble. Even a lone zombie is a liability because of their tendency to gravitate toward each other, if you do not deal with the single zombie it is inevitable that more will come.

No, you don't kill zombies, they kill you. You are the prey. You are next in line for infection. You are their dinner.

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I don't know about bad luck for you, but I wouldn't think it would be too great for the bird.

People are scared by Friday the 13th, because some people belive that demons and devils come out of hell to wreak chaos upon us mortals.

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

a good luck charm

Noone will know for sure until 2012.

All superstitions were made up. Some had a basis in fact (walking under a ladder) others happened because of frequent cause & effect (the athlete that doesn't wash his socks when he is on a winning streak).

The clockwise direction has been associated with positive forces in the northern hemisphere because in the northern hemisphere the sun appears to track across the sky in a clockwise direction (see explanation below) and the sun was so important and unexplained to early humans it was given spiritual significance and sometimes worshipped.

The number seven is also associated with positive things in some cultures so this superstition may be a combination of these two beliefs.

Northern hemsiphere clockwise sun movement: When facing towards the position of the midday sun (south in the northern hemisphere): starting from the east, the sun appears to rotate or follow an arc up and north and then south and down across the sky during the day.

There are any number of superstitions, omens and meanings of flowers, many of them are specific to a single culture. Here are a few:

- when giving flower to someone, it is considered lucky if you give an odd number.

- flowers carried by brides were a symbol of good fortune and fuitfulness

- it was once considered unlucky to take flowers that bloomed out of season into the house as it predicted a death in the house.

- bunches of red and white flowers were considered unlucky by British nurses and frowned upon in hospitals.

- if a patient in hospital leaves flowers they were given while ill, in the hospital when they leave it is thought to be an omen they will soon return.

- dead flowers found in the road should under no circumstances be picked put.

- detecting the smell of flowers where there are none is said to predict a death.

Knock on wood means you are hoping that it happens.

No, a Christmas tree falling over does not cause bad luck. This belief is purely superstition.

these are some of the answers but it is easy enough to find more if you just google search it.

· Saying 'God bless you' following a sneeze - people believed that the devil could enter your body when you open your mouth to sneeze - the blessing warded off the devil.

· An eclipse was seen as a omen of evil.

· The seventh son of the seventh son was believed to possess super natural powers.

· Touch wood to guard against bad luck.

It's very difficult to answer that question. Most people believe in something that other people would call superstition, and in general, even though people don't like to admit it, or may not realize it, most people are superstitous in at least some area.

i believe if you accidentally kill an owl with your car it will not bring you bad luck, pray and ask for forgiveness. and really mean it from your heart

Lighting a third GI's cigarette on one "C" ration match, or one flame on a zippo lighter was bad luck. The match had to be put out, and another one was lighted, or for the zippo, the lid shut, then re-opened and lighted again for the third man. If only one match was available, due to a number of circumstance's (rain for example); or the zippo was out of fluid...then the third GI's cigarette was lighted anyway; then we'd all look around to see...wait for a few minutes to see who was gonna get shot or what tank was going to hit a mine, or what new "nasty" orders were coming down the pike, etc. It was considered either poor taste or bad luck to talk "out loud" of who was gonna get it next (killed or wounded). That kind of talk "could" cause a fist fight. You didn't light 3 GI's cigarettes from the same match.

the baby has died

People used to believe that your reflection was really your soul. If you broke a mirror, you broke your soul as well.

Note from PickledOnionGirl: That's why Vampires are believed to be invisible in a mirror. Vampires supposedly don't have souls.

although going under a ladder isn't bad luck, probally someone who was walking under a ladder probally got hurt or killed walking under a ladder when something fell on him from a worker on the ladder

China. The word for 4 sounds just like the word for death.

Superstition is a belief not based on reason. It is sometimes attributed to luck or fate. Some superstitions are: Break a mirror seven years of bad luck. Always hold your breath when passing a cemetery Raise your hands when going under a train overpass and there is a train on the bridge. Step on a crack, break your mothers back. Throw salt over your shoulder when you spill it. Never walk under a ladder. Never have a black cat cross your path. The list goes on and on.

People hang a bag of water from their front door to keep flies from coming into the home. The bag has a small hole in it and the flies get in but then can't get out.

There are many theories on why people believe the number 13 is unlucky, but none of them have been proven likely. Many people also feel that the number 13 is lucky.