Your Superstitions and Strange Beliefs - or how to ward off bad luck, wicked juju, and the evil eye

[fishercat]

I hold my breath whenever I drive past a cemetery. It's 10% superstition and 90% a game to see how long I can hold it.

 

[xXEddie.DurellXx]

I like keeping an internal positive energy while keeping external negative energy keeps the spooks away

 

[NoReturn]

I hold my breath whenever I drive past a cemetery. It's 10% superstition and 90% a game to see how long I can hold it.

If you do it in a tunnel you can make a wish at the end.

 

[Manu7]

My autistic belief is a combination of that I'm living in a simulation or/and I have a purpose in life that I haven't fullfilled yet and "destiny" is doing it's own thing.

Main reason why I believe this, is because how fucking insane the amount of close-death or fucked up situations I've been and yet never been harmed on any way, from the top of my head:

-While in a dentist routine when I was around 6(?) the dentist noticed something in my right jaw, turned out a potential cancerous tumor that was removed shortly after.

-Almost killed myself when i was 4 because in a Chinese CCTV fashion I decided to climb the balcony in the third floor of the mall but a standby noticed me and pulled me down

-When I was in middleschool while riding a public bus, a 70ish pedophile man sits next to me and asks me questions about my household (trying to get information out of me) and the lady behind me notices what's happening and intervenes

-I'll say a solid +15 times I was 1 step away of getting of getting run over by a speeding car crossing red lights, while most of those I've just look before crossing even If i have a green light, there was one where even after getting green light and looking both sides, a car decided to accelerate just after I started crossing and by pure fucking luck I heard the engine going off because there was a small pause in a 12min song that i was listening on my headphones.

-Despite living in a third world country for the massive majority of my life, never been assaulted, robbed, mugged, etc.

 

[No. 7 cat]

If go back in upon setting on your journey, you must sit and bless yourself.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

My autistic belief is a combination of that I'm living in a simulation or/and I have a purpose in life that I haven't fullfilled yet and "destiny" is doing it's own thing.

Main reason why I believe this, is because how fucking insane the amount of close-death or fucked up situations I've been and yet never been harmed on any way, from the top of my head:

-While in a dentist routine when I was around 6(?) the dentist noticed something in my right jaw, turned out a potential cancerous tumor that was removed shortly after.

-Almost killed myself when i was 4 because in a Chinese CCTV fashion I decided to climb the balcony in the third floor of the mall but a standby noticed me and pulled me down

-When I was in middleschool while riding a public bus, a 70ish pedophile man sits next to me and asks me questions about my household (trying to get information out of me) and the lady behind me notices what's happening and intervenes

-I'll say a solid +15 times I was 1 step away of getting of getting run over by a speeding car crossing red lights, while most of those I've just look before crossing even If i have a green light, there was one where even after getting green light and looking both sides, a car decided to accelerate just after I started crossing and by pure fucking luck I heard the engine going off because there was a small pause in a 12min song that i was listening on my headphones.

-Despite living in a third world country for the massive majority of my life, never been assaulted, robbed, mugged, etc.

There's a fairly obscure theory that states that we all perceive the best possible outcome of the choices we've made and the people around us are largely shadows of the result. It's possible that you're really meant to be dead by this point but your luck on this timeline has such resonance that it affects others perception of it. Don't make your death useful if you can help it.

 

[WENDY DENG 2020]

I don't know if this counts but I am all about hoodoo.

 

[Aiōn]

Main reason why I believe this, is because how fucking insane the amount of close-death or fucked up situations I've been and yet never been harmed on any way

I believe that while most people are destined for death to be part of their life, some are more so than others. You can usually see it in a person’s astrology chart if you know what to look for.

Without power leveling too much, I was in a relationship with a man who had BPD and I stayed with him through a lot out of a sense of duty. There was an alternative timeline where I could have chosen to leave and dated my friend’s new boyfriend’s best friend who ended up murdering someone so I guess that period of my life was always destined to be bad, getting caught up in all that.

I have had two brushes with death myself, each uniquely painful from the other. I’ve also witnessed a few miracles. I assume as reassurance that God loves me too.

 

[fishercat]

If you do it in a tunnel you can make a wish at the end.

I also do it when I'm crossing a long bridge because my grandpa told me that if you don't hold your breath the bridge will collapse and it just turned into a habit. Also it's fun to test if I can make it all the way across the Mississippi River without breathing.

 

[Not a bee]

Oh boy I have a lot of these.

Don't kill/step on a spider or an ant. Stepping on them isn't only a dick move but it will bring you bad luck. Just rehouse the spider somewhere. Kill the ants in a humane way if you have to get rid of them.
Don't open weird suitcases you find abandoned somewhere, even if they look expensive. Don't bring home foreign objects, especially old ones. You don't know what kind of stuff is attached to them.
Say "rabbit, rabbit, rabbit" when you wake up on the start of a month, or "black rabbit" before you go to bed, or, "tibbar, tibbar" which is rabbit backwards. Brings good luck to you for the rest of the month.
Certain animals are associated with certain omens. Rabbits are luck, foxes are cunning, crows represent death and messages from the other side. Owls represent wisdom, death, black magick, but I love owls and animals in general so I overlook the negativity associated with them and look at the positives. Death isn't always a bad thing either, death could be like, an end to a bad relationship or a end to something bad you're going through.
A gypsy one is if you find a cool looking rock, keep it for good luck for a day. Return it or if you think you found a special rock, keep it with you. Thank the rock for the blessings associated with it. Thank the nature. Don't take a rock that is near a tree though, or it looks like it was placed there by a person.
If you see offerings left to some deity in nature, leave it. Don't mess with it!
Lilacs are beautiful but don't bring them in the house they're associated with death and bringing them home can bring bad luck.

 

[Mothra1988]

You guys are too afraid of the ouija board. Unless, you are a complete retard or use it all the time, it's relatively harmless. I guess people here tend to have trouble with impulse control, but there's pretty much zero risk if you just do it once in a while and are polite to what you're talking to. Most spirits are just bored and want to communicate a little and will leave when it's over. The movies where you'll be cursed just for using it are fiction. But yeah if you use it too much, you'll end up with problems. In moderation only. And don't let your asshole friends who will swear at what you're talking to or challenge it in on the session. You have to be respectful if you want good results.

 

[PandaChai]

whenever a big dandelion puff (or whatever they are) blows into the window, I always catch it and make a wish

When I lose an eyelash I make a wish before I blow it away

If you do it [hold your breath] in a tunnel you can make a wish at the end.

What other times do superstitious farmers make wishes?
Obviously when blowing out birthday candles!
Do Americans really break wishbones at Thanksgiving like the do in the movies?

 

[Not a bee]

What other times do superstitious farmers make wishes?
Obviously when blowing out birthday candles!
Do Americans really break wishbones at Thanksgiving like the do in the movies?

I did when I was younger!

 

[Aiōn]

What other times do superstitious farmers make wishes?
Obviously when blowing out birthday candles!
Do Americans really break wishbones at Thanksgiving like the do in the movies?

When I was a child, if I saw a really bright star I would sometimes try to wish on it. I think I got that from watching Pinocchio.

You should be careful which star you wish upon though, many of the fixed stars are believed to be malefic according to medieval astrologers.

 

[SwanSwanson]

DO NOT FUCK WITH OUIJA BOARDS.

My mom once talked about how she and her friends were messing with a ouija board and some guy who had some connections with spirituality told her to stop even though hey had no way of knowing what she did.

 

[Chongqing]

I would never do anything disrespectful in a graveyard. I can't really articulate why. It just seems like a paranormal gamble.

My mom once talked about how she and her friends were messing with a ouija board and some guy who had some connections with spirituality told her to stop even though hey had no way of knowing what she did.

Was it like a random guy on the street out of the blue, or someone they knew?

 

[SwanSwanson]

Was it like a random guy on the street out of the blue, or someone they knew?

I'm fairly certain it's someone she knew.

 

[Shitted Scaredless]

I have the spiritual beliefs of a mentally ill teenager.

 

[NoReturn]

Do Americans really break wishbones at Thanksgiving like the do in the movies?

Sometimes chicken wishbones, too.

When I was a child, if I saw a really bright star I would sometimes try to wish on it. I think I got that from watching Pinocchio.

You should be careful which star you wish upon though, many of the fixed stars are believed to be malefic according to medieval astrologers.

The closest star to earth is 4 lightyears away, so assuming wishes travel at the speed of light, you might get your wish in 8 years at the earliest.
Apply that more broadly, maybe you start getting some wishes granted as an adult when you made them as a kid.

 

[Shidoen]

After you take out the trash or put it in the dumpster you spit on the ground.