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Fish and Fishing
Good luck omens: Putting a coin on a float. Throw back the first fish you catch then you’ll be lucky the whole day fishing. A fish should always be eaten from the head toward the tail. Bad luck omens: Changing rods during fishing. A woman stepping over your fishing rod. Changing a previously lucky float. Casting bait without spitting on it. Asking a fisherman how many bites he has had. Baiting a hook using your left hand. Placing a net in the water before a catch … Read entire article »
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Actors: general good and bad luck omens
It is good luck to: 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 … Read entire article »
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Actors: luck in the dressing room
It is good luck to: 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 … Read entire article »
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Bugs: Flies
Hang a plastic bag filled with water at each door and window to keep flies from coming into the house. … Read entire article »
Coins
See a penny pick it up, all day long you’ll have good luck. See a penny let it lie, all day long you’ll have to cry. You’ll have good luck if you pick up a coin and it’s heads side up. Bad luck if it’s tails. Early American thin silver coins were bent twice to ward off witches, while a single bend attested to a loved one. A silver dime in the churn would ensure a plentiful amount of butter … Read entire article »
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Sports: Baseball
Spitting into your hand before picking up the bat is said to bring good luck. A wad of gum stuck on a player’s hat brings good luck. It is bad luck if a dog walks across the diamond before the first pitch. Some players believe it is good luck to step on one of the bases before running off the field at the end of an inning. It is bad luck to touch the baselines while running off and … Read entire article »
Owls
To see a white owl during the day is a good omen, it means you are being watched over and guided by someone wise in the spirit world. A typical myth is that if a white owl sits on your roof, someone within your household will be very ill, or signifies a death. Petting an owl is absorbing mystical wisdom. To be bitten by an owl means your children will be dumb. (Reader Submitted by Pandora) … Read entire article »
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Buckeye Nuts
In the eastern & southern United States Buckeyes were traditionally thought to be a sure preventive of rheumatism, arthritis, or headache. Identical beliefs were recorded in Germany and the Netherlands during the early 19th century, but there the preventive power was attributed to the buckeye’s European relative, the horse-chestnut. It is probable that European immigrants transferred the horse-chestnut’s magical ability to the buckeye when they settled in America. Missouri, lore holds that a buckeye increases … Read entire article »
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Four-leafed clover
If you own a four-leafed clover you will have good luck in racing, and witchcraft will have no power over you. However the rules are that you must always have it with you, you cannot pass it on to another owner and under no circumstances should you show it to anyone. … Read entire article »
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Saint Patrick’s Day
St. Patrick’s Day is March 17th. It is an Irish Holiday, and is widely celebrated in America, regardless of one’s ancestry. To the Irish, it is a day to commemorate the Patron Saint of Ireland, St. Patrick. All children should wear green on St. Patrick’s Day for good luck. If you don’t wear green, beware! You might get pinched by someone else as a kind of playful punishment for not wearing … Read entire article »
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