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Do you always avoid walking under ladders? Do you avoid cracks in the pavement? Do you not put an umbrella in the house, just in case it does attract bad luck?
Or do you think breaking mirror results in just a broken mirror?
What do you do to avoid bad luck and bring good luck?
Mine's a little more subtle and deals mostly with Murphy (as in Murphy's Law) and the Baseball Gods. If a no-hitter is going on, you avoid directly talking about it. Even when you think your team is sure to win or sure to make the play-offs, you don't say it. You especially don't as the team itself publicly prepare ahead of time for playoffs.
You don't make statements that invite Murphy. I would never say a Ship was Unsinkable unless it really was due to the materials used in construction. I would say improbable. Extremely unlikely or the like. Etc.
I hold by breath driving by graveyards, if possible. I also flip a lucky cigarette in a fresh pack and smoke that one last, and kiss my knuckle and tap it against the roof of the car when going through a yellow light.
I don't wear skirts while working at the Nook counter at B&N.
It's half superstition, half poorly justified etiquette rule, but I take the rule that you must never celebrate birthdays in advance very seriously. There are no exceptions. This includes congratulations. You may give and receive wrapped gifts, but you must not open them early.
I'm not terribly superstitious, mainly because I'm too lazy to keep with any sort of ritual like that. I do try to make it a point to not part ways with a loved one with last words being something like "be sure to pick up something for cleaning cat vomit." Just in case something happens, I want our last words to one another to be good.
Lighting candles in church, ha ha.
I tend to not be terribly superstitious outside of the realm of religion, and we aren't supposed to consider that superstition, of course. ;)
I don't know if this qualifies as a superstition, exactly, but I'm always nervous when things are going too well in my life, because I think I'm getting set up for a cosmic smack-down.
Yeah, I've had that one, too. I blame it on too many years babysitting, because if they got too worked up and excited it'd inevitably lead to crankiness or injury. So when things are going great, I just cringe and wait for it to go bad.
I do that, too. But, I know way too many people who have mood swings worse than I ever thought about having.
The only one besides the standard bless you, gesundeit or salud after someone sneezes is saying, even if it's just under my breath, poor schmuck when I pass a disabled vehicle on my side of the road. It's kind of an apeasement to the great car god so that I'm not the one in that position.
There's a sort of comfort in doing something--even if it's totally useless--to acknowledge things beyond our control. I sometimes wonder if uncertainty and worries would be less of a burden if we really did believe in things like car gods. Sure, it wouldn't change anything, but at least there's something there to toss that worry onto.
I don't really have superstitions. But I have little , i dunno, tics. Frex, there's a stairwell I walk by every day and I always pat it twice with my hand when I pass by. There's no reason for it other than if I don't I feel weird until I do.
No superstition whatsoever.
They are not logical, captain!