Odd Rituals

[Enki]

Does anyone else have any odd rituals which you still observe despite knowing them to be utterly ludicrous? To illustrate what I mean, I always break the bottom of an eggshell, after eating a boiled egg, to stop witches using them as boats! My youngest son, who is now 47 does the same thing, presumably because I told him the same thing when he was young.

[floo]

I have a couple which are really stupid, but ingrained in me since childhood. I won't say what they are as they will only add to my status as the forum's most senile old bat!

[ad_orientem]

I used to have a lucky pair of pants I'd wear when playing in a pool competition.

[Rhiannon]

I bow to single magpies.

[Harrowby Hall]

I have a couple which are really stupid, but ingrained in me since childhood. I won't say what they are as they will only add to my status as the forum's most senile old bat!

Don't tell me ... err ... you sleep hanging upside-down from the ceiling ... and ... err ... you use echo-location instead of a SATNAV.

Well, you did say you are a bat 

[floo]

Don't tell me ... err ... you sleep hanging upside-down from the ceiling ... and ... err ... you use echo-location instead of a SATNAV.

Well, you did say you are a bat 

WOW, however did you guess?

[Robbie]

Floo  .

Does anyone else have any odd rituals which you still observe despite knowing them to be utterly ludicrous? To illustrate what I mean, I always break the bottom of an eggshell, after eating a boiled egg, to stop witches using them as boats! My youngest son, who is now 47 does the same thing, presumably because I told him the same thing when he was young.

Enki,never in my life heard of that one!

I don't have any superstitious rituals that I can thinkof.

[floo]

My favourite grandmother, who was usually a very down to earth Lancashire lass, who called a spade a spade, would amuse us if she happened to break a mirror. She would throw some salt over her shoulder to ward off seven years bad luck!

[Owlswing]

I bow to single magpies.

Snap!

[Owlswing]

My favourite grandmother, who was usually a very down to earth Lancashire lass, who called a spade a spade, would amuse us if she happened to break a mirror. She would throw some salt over her shoulder to ward off seven years bad luck!

Throwing salt, over the left shoulder with the right hand, was because spilling salt was supposedly a bringer of bad luck (can't remember why) and the salt was supposed to go into the Devil's eyes so you could escape before he could so something nasty to you!