Ingrained superstitions.

[Tilly2]

I consider myself to be a logical and reasonably sane person but I can't get away from some daft superstitious behaviour that has been ingrained in me since I was a child.

For example, if i put something on back to front, I have to take it off and turn a full circle before I put it on again. Also, I won't cut my nails on Friday or Sunday because it's bad luck to do so.

And............I always throw some salt over my shoulder if I spill some.
Do any of you have the same or similar 'problem' with illogical behaviour?

[ummmm]

No..none.

[boxtops]

I do the salt one, to throw it in the eyes of the devil, over the left shoulder
If I put something on inside out, it's OK if I take it off straight away and change it
Always greet magpies

[Duncer]

I always try not to come home sober on a night out.

[evedawn]

Superstitions ... Not as such but I DO have some borderlIne OCD (ie things I Have to physically check (by touch not just site) before I leave the house. It's nOt always v bad but worst when I am stressed! Today it took me forever to get out the front door!

[nungate]

I do the nails thing and throw the salt over my shoulder.
I don't walk under ladders not because of superstition but common sense, someone could be working up there and drop something on you or you could walk into the ladder and knock them down

[evedawn]

Duncer that is funny!!! Lol

[mrsmaveric]

i always salute a magpie...thats about it really....

[Maydup]

Only magpies for me. "Hello Mr Magpie how's the missus?"

Oh ......... and ladders, I avoid walking under them, but who wouldn't really?

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I also salute a magpie, and I don't like to split a post when walking with a friend or loved one.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

You'd better not visit me then 2shortplanks or you'd be climbing out of the window.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

Oops. I read you NEVER leave a house etc.

[RATTER15]

No I dont and to be honest I do find it very confusing as to why people believe in such absolute nonsense!

[seadogg]

I always chuck a missile at any magpie that enters the garden. What misfortune will befall us?

[Kiki-frog]

The only one that stuck with me is saying, 'Good morning, Mr Magpie, how's your lady wife?' Which I think is about invoking two magpies (for joy) as opposed to one (for sorrow). But that's force of habit rather than a superstition. (I think.)

I used to go out with a guy who wouldn't cut his nails on a Sunday. That was because his granny had told him that the devil would put them in people's shepherds pies on Monday.

[gness]

Salt, shoes on table and saluting a magpie. All with tongue in cheek.

But I will never,never allow peacock feathers into the house.

[boxtops]

I'd forgotten about the stairs one (but again, that's common sense too). And shoes on the table.

Peacock feathers - we'd never heard that one until after our peacock-themed wedding - our house is full of the things.

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

I do not get the peacock feathers thing at all. In most cultures an eye wards off the evilnessness.