Superstitions that would create misfortune
•Folding the used napkin, or keeping a napkin in your napkin holder at the end of a meal will break friendship.
• Verbally mention or formulate anything undesirable or unfortunate (see curse).
• To counteract misfortune, wood must be touched immediately.
• Breaking a mirror, doing it you have 7 years of bad luck.
• Passing under a ladder leaning against a wall, the ladder with the floor surfaces and the wall form a triangle, representing the Trinity. Therefore, crossing it was an attempt against said dogma, or it also represents a gateway to the spirit world.
• Cross a black cat.
• Spill salt: the salt, in the Antiquity, represented wealth. Apparently, this myth has its origin in the fact that, once Rome conquered and razed the city of Carthage, the Roman soldiers poured salt on the remains of the city, so that no plant would grow again in it; or that in Antiquity it was common to pay with salt, (hence the salary arises) which, when spilling this product was considered a contempt for money and therefore supposed the future lack of it.
• Spill oil.
• Put the inverted bread on the table.
• Cleaning the table with paper, and not with a cloth cloth, brings economic losses, because it represents a contempt for paper money.
• Hearing the name of a person who transmits "bad luck" (person who is "salty", jettatore, a mufa, hedgehog, jinx, ash)
• To counter the curse, the person is marginalized and referred to as "the unmentionable."
• In Argentina, men touch the left testicle, and women the left breast.
• Being the victim of a "job" of voodoo or black magic.
• Pray with your legs crossed.
• First step on your left foot when getting out of bed (See left-handed article).
• Get married or embark on a Tuesday 13: in Anglophone countries they refer to Friday 13.
• Baptize a ship with the same name as another ship.
• Sit down to eat 13 people at the table, for the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples
* Superstitions against evil or against bad luck *
• Certain actions are traditionally considered as spells or acts against evil, evil spirits, witches and bad luck, and are performed to protect, deflect, avoid or reject them: Possess amulets or objects that protect from bad luck or witches , such as always carrying a chestnut collected on Saint John's Day or Night, or
• In Aragon, put earrings made with juniper twigs to the sheep.
• Pour salt behind the shoulder, to appease the evil spirits behind the person.
• Touching a wooden object when hearing something that is considered inauspicious, as some cultures believe that they have magical properties or you can make a wish.
• When rats leave a ship it is because it is going to sink.
• When animals leave a place it is because a disaster is coming.
• Have an altar with stamps of saints and virgins at home.
• Light a candle to a saint, in a Catholic church or at home.
• Do a "cleanup" using white magic with a witch or healer.
• "Pull the little crow" is a type of shamanic massage related to the skin of the waist or abdomen.
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