The X spot: ridiculous superstitions
Myles Peterman
Yesterday, Phil the Groundhog saw his shadow. That means six more weeks of winter, if you’re superstitious.
I on the other hand, am not superstitious, and in light of this shadow seeing groundhog, I have decided that today’s X Spot be all about superstitions that are weird, and in some cases make absolutely no sense.
Without further ado, I present to you:
Top 10 Ridiculous (or true) Superstitions
10. It’s bad luck to walk under a ladder. I wouldn’t call this bad luck as much as being unwise. If you’re planning on walking under a ladder, you are taking a big risk of having something dropped on your head. Don’t blame anyone if you decide to walk under a ladder to “test fate” and you end up wearing paint.
9. Don’t spill the salt. If you spill the salt you are supposed to throw some salt over your shoulder to deter your bad luck. If you spill salt, is it the wisest thing to do to waste more salt by throwing it over your shoulder into some poor unknowing child’s eyes? I’m going to go with no.
8. Black cats. Black cats are not evil. I am allergic to cats therefore all cats are evil. ‘Nuff said.
7. Breaking mirrors. A broken mirror is supposed to curse you with 7 years of bad luck. I don’t know who chose 7 years of bad luck, but obviously it was someone who was mad at their kid for breaking a large, very expensive, reflective device.
6. Crossing your fingers. Crossing your fingers is both positive and negative. If you’re wishing for luck you “have your fingers crossed”. If you’re breaking a promise, you cross your fingers. I guess this is why people with finger splints are so truthful and don’t win the lottery.
5. Step on a crack; break your mother’s back. I don’t know how this superstition came to be, but I feel sorry for the poor kid out there who actually stepped on a crack, and by some coincidence his mother actually broke her back. The kids who purposefully step on the cracks, they are what worries me.
4. Opening an umbrella indoors brings bad luck. The only way that opening an umbrella indoors brings you bad luck, is if it is one of The Penguins machine-gun umbrellas from Batman Returns, or if you are in the cockpit of a plane and blind the pilot.
3. Knock on wood. You’re having good luck, you mention it to someone, and then decide to knock on a piece of wood. If you’re in a padded cell, you’re already having enough bad luck, so if you do have some good luck, don’t mention it.
2. Birthday candles. You’re supposed to make a wish and then blow out all of your birthday candles. If you blow out all of your candles your wish will come true. So if you have a small lung capacity, prepare to have a few upsetting birthdays.
1. Rabbits foot. This brings no luck to the three-legged rabbit you just created. Other than that, it will do nothing for you, aside from clank along with your keys as a severed bunny appendage.
Have any superstitions that you find ridiculous? Strike back below!
All of the free luck in the world to you YF-ers!
Extra Tidbit: The number 13 is bad luck, but only to parents whose children just recently turned 13. It’s all downhill for a few years.
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