• Wear a wig.
• Find a piece of cotton on another actor and wind it around your finger
• Perform Cinderella.
• Have a hunchback in the company.
• Have visitors enter dressing rooms with their right feet first.
• Drink champagne on opening night.

It is bad luck to:

• Quote Macbeth.
• Sing or hum Three Blind Mice or I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls (the tune from The Bohemian Girl).
• Whistle.
• Wear peacock feathers.
• Have a play open on a Friday.
• Perform Macbeth, Robin Hood, and Babes in the Wood.
• Have visitors enter dressingrooms with their left feet first.
• Open a play on the thirteenth of the month.
• Have anything yellow, green or blue.

• Have telegrams on the dressing room walls.
• Have dolls and other mascots in the dressing room.
• Dance on accidentally dropped powder.
• Accidentally smear lipstick on your teeth when putting makeup on for a play.
• Keep a lucky rabbit’s foot in the makeup box.
• Kick off a pair of shoes and have them land on their soles.
• Leave a dressing room with the left foot first.

It is bad luck to:

• Carry a makeup box.
• Upset a makeup box.
• Use a new set of greasepaint on opening night.
• Clean a makeup box.
• Have an actor look over your shoulder while you are making up.
• Leave a piece of soap behind that you have been using on tour.
• Have pictures in the dressing room.
• Kick off your shoes and have them fall over rather than land on their soles.
• Put shoes on a chair in the dressing room.
• Leave a dressing room with the right foot first.

• If your apron string becomes loosened, your true love is thinking of you.  New York.
• If your apron drops off, you’ll lose your beau. The same is true if you lose your garter.  Stevens Point, Wis.
• If a girl wet her apron in washing, it is a sign that she will have a drunken husband.  Labrador, Scilly Cove, N.F., and New England.

• Bringing an ax into the home brings death.
• It’s bad luck to dream about an axe.
• Having cattle step over an axe when taken out of the pasture for the first time in spring protects them against evil magic.

• Talking to a woman before a race
• Getting into the car on the side of the exhaust pipe.
• Walking in front of the car more than once before the start of the race.
• Signing autographs
• Having pictures taken.
• Eating peanuts before a race.
• Having a woman in the garage area.

• Transferring “lucky” items from an old car to a new car.
• Buying the car of a wealthy person increases your chances of becoming wealthy too.

Bad luck:

• Buying a car on the thirteenth of a month.
• Buying a car with 13 in the license plate.
• Changing a car that has been trouble free for a new one.
• Cleaning your car brings rain.
• Green cars.
• Talking about an accident just before starting a journey by car.

• Seeing the aurora borealis means there will be war.
• Spirits cavorting in the heavens.

In the home:

• Scattering ashes over the roof of a house protects it against thunder and lightning.
• Sweeping out ashes on Christmas is bad luck.
• Sweeping out ashes on a Friday is bad luck.
• Sweeping out ashes after four in the afternoon is bad luck.

Crops:

• Spreading ashes on crops at Midsummer brings a good harvest.
• Scattering human ashes to the wind helps crops.

Livestock:

• Mixing ashes into the food of livestock makes animals strong and healthy.

Divination

Smooth out the ashes of the hearth on New Year’s Eve and in the morning look for shapes found there.

• Image: Footprints leading toward the door = death in the family
• Image: Footprints leading away from the door = a birth
• Image: A ring = a wedding
• Image: A coffin = a death

• Working on Ascension Day is bad luck and brings about accidents.

Weather Omens:

Eggs:

• Eggs laid on Ascension Day will never go bad.
• Eggs laid on Ascension Day and placed on the roof will bring good luck for the whole year.

Gifts:

• If you make a gift to the blind or poor you will be blessed with great wealth during the year.

Cures:

• Biting into the bark of a peach tree at midnight on Ascension Day cures goiter.
• Rain collected on Ascension Day cures eye problems.