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[ SECRET POST #2590 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2590 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Star Trek: The Next Generation]

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[Don't Hug Me I'm Scared]

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[Cloud Atlas]

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[Hannibal]

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[Goonies]

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[Gwilym Lee]

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[Mass Effect]

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[Sherlock]

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[Sleepy Hollow]

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[Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith]

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[Sherlock]

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[Being Human UK]

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[Craig Ferguson]

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[Christina Ricci]

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[High School Musical]

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[Blue Exorcist]

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[Frozen, Tangled]

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[Amanda Palmer, Emilie Autumn]

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Inspired by today's browsing deep waters of the net.
Do you believe in them? What's your favourite? Know any that's just plain weird etc. I just want to know about them and you. (Wow, that came out wrong)

Can't help but believe in superstitions. My mom was really superstitious her whole life. Because I heard so much about it, I dread things like garden tools being brought into the house lest bad things happen.

I do feel a bit uneasy walking under ladders. Other than that, I don't seriously believe in any, but I do think they're fascinating, along with urban legends. I'm sorry I can't think of any interesting ones to share with you right now.

Isn't walking under a ladder legitimately dangerous though?

Could be!

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I really like that black cats are unlucky in the US, but white cats apparently are considered unlucky in England.

That is really good to know!

Huh, I have never heard that about white cats and I'm English. I used to hear black cats=unlucky as a child too. Maybe it's a regional thing?

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My favourite is fan death.

In Korea there's a fairly popular belief that if you leave a fan on in a room over night it will suck out all the air, and you'll die in your sleep.

Fucking incredible.

Fan Death is a fucking riot.

I think my favorite superstitions are all the modern technology-related ones. Don't live under power lines! Cell towers will kill you! Your phone is gonna give you a tumor! XD

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I am not superstitious in the least.

My mom, however, was superstitious to the point of OCD (promise I'm not using that in the slang sense everyone hates). She had to keep a clothespin clipped to her dashboard and another one in her purse so she could always knock on wood if she needed to. She's mellowed a lot over the past 5+ years, but she still does stuff like that.

I don't actually believe it, but I've always crushed egg shells so that fairies don't come in and live in them.

I've also always liked the different variations of certain creatures. Sirens can be mermaids, or selkies, or the hundred different Japanese versions. So many cultures have a version of the Weeping Woman. There are so many different things that can be called a "vampire". If I thought I stood a chance of finding it, I'd go get my "Vampire Legends" book.

I don't actually believe it, but I've always crushed egg shells so that fairies don't come in and live in them.

That's the first time I've heard that and I absolutely love it.

B-but what if you get a changeling in your bed and need to make it laugh?

(see eggshell mentions @ http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/gerchange.html -- this is why as a kid I liked trying to break eggs as cleanly in half as possible, just in case...)

Believe in 'em? Nah. Follow a couple personal ones anyway? Yep.

The two that come to mind at the moment are both driving related: I knock on the roof of the car after going through a yellow light, and I must turn the radio to a song that I like or at least tolerate before shutting the engine off.

I knock on wood but that's about it.

I do the knocking on wood thing. That's about it. I definitely don't believe that black cats are bad luck. I used to have two of them :)

I feel like superstitions can change your mind set in how you approach a situation and inadvertently reinforce themselves. Sort of like the placebo effect for your brain? So I pick up lucky pennies and turn over the bad ones for the next person. Doesn't really hurt anything.

Not to mention just because people don't readily understand the relationship between correlation and causation doesn't mean they can't benefit accidentally after picking up on a pattern. If several people I knew died after smelling a flower and I avoided that flower because I thought it was haunted instead of poisonous I might be wrong but I'd still accidentally be saving myself.

So maybe my lucky underwear aren't really lucky and there's a factor I'm missing but they make me feel luckier.

I refuse to deny believing in faeries.

My family has a bunch of them, including:

Always re-enter the house through the door you left it by.
Don't leave a knife sticking in the bread.
If you say the bride (or baby) is beautiful, pretend-spit at them to ward off bad luck.
Don't leave the knife out on the cutting board. (This may be less a family superstition than my mom's private thing.)
Whatever you do on New Year's Day, you'll be doing for the rest of the year.

And I have a personal superstition: never make excuses--like "I couldn't make it because my car broke down" (or "I had food poisoning" or "my cat was sick and had to go to the vet")--unless they're true, or they'll come true.

I don't have that many superstitions, but putting keys on the table is the one thing I just can't do. It gives me the most uncomfortable feeling. My boyfriend thinks I'm ridiculous.

That is a superstition I have never heard of. Why can't you put keys on the table? And where DO you put them?

I don't particularly believe in them, but I like reading about them! Especially the older ones not much in use.

Myself-wise, I've had two different pets die on the same day years apart, both oldish and with petsitters while I'm out of state. I get very antsy around this day now.

I was raised to believe superstitions were something you should not give time to. Classic stuff like the number 13, black cats, walking under ladders, broken mirrors, knocking on wood, spilled salt... the classics, should be ignored.

In fact 13 is one of my favourite numbers and black cats are cute. Ladders are, as someone else says, a possible logical risk and broken mirrors are a bitch to clean up like any other broken glass and ceramic, and spilled salt just needs to be cleaned up.

I actually really can't decide whether to believe in ghosts or not.
I sometimes do Tarot spreads and they usually are pretty accurate, but that might be because the way to interpret the cards leaves a lot of room for all kinds of interpretations, the way a horoscope is so non-specific you can read anything you want into it.

My own superstitions that are not really rooted in tradition are that crows are lucky and I prefer even numbers over uneven.

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