The strangest superstitions - what's bad luck and what's lucky

 A belief is born into a conviction, and although most people consider superstition to be mere superstition, they secretly wonder if there is any spark of truth in it. Fear of various forces, for which it is difficult to find a rational explanation, created beliefs that protected against evil and that produced good. This magical thinking created religion on the one hand and superstition on the other.


While religions have survived, superstition and superstition have been 'invaded' by rational thinking. Meanwhile, paradoxically, many superstitions have a logical justification and even several explanations. As in the case of the unlucky thirteenth, feared by Poles. It was on Friday the thirteenth that the Master of the Templar Order was murdered for money. The last supper was eaten by the twelve apostles and the thirteenth was Judas.
The mysterious nature of the cat has led to supernatural qualities being attributed to it. The cat crossing the road frightens Italians and Poles.  The English, Irish and Japanese conversely, there a black kitten is good luck. And observing the behaviour of this animal, heralds a certain weather. In America, the cat must be white when you meet it in the evening, bad luck. However, when you dream of it, fly straight away to play the money lottery. In Germany, a black cat should run from left to right; when it's the other way around, the German does a U-turn and makes up the road. When in France and coincidentally with a cat under your arm, avoid rivers. Crossing, even over a bridge, is certain death. When the cat suddenly disappears from the house, everyone is about to get sick, even though he had something else on his mind.

Many superstitions are related to numbers; in China, eight is good luck, prosperity, but four is not.
The English count crows; one - mourning, two - good luck, three - life without financial obligations, four - wealth, five - illness, and six - certain death. Meanwhile, in Russia, forty days a distant family must wait to meet a new family member. This is how long it takes for him or her to receive a soul. Only the parents and the midwife have access.

In Japan, four - shi, pronounced to mean death, is in vain on the fourth floor, for example, of any building. For similar reasons, seventeen in Italy, which in the Roman notation, means - I lived, if it appears on a Friday - total disaster, Seventeen in Swedish is a terrible vulgar bluster. But four in Italian is fine, indeed in Polish too - a four-leaf clover. Seven in many countries is a friendly number, only not knowing why it is said - like seven misfortunes.

Many superstitions "apply" in many countries together: watch out for doorsteps, spilled salt, people knock on wood, but Italians, for a change, iron. Beliefs can be inexplicable. In Turkey, if you don't spit out your chewing gum before dusk, it turns into a corpse. A Japanese man captured in a photograph, in the middle, between two people, can expect the worst. There, a samurai doused accidentally by a geisha, with water after washing his hands, will not live to see three years; indeed, few samurai survive even without this.
Russians are careful with gifts, flowers only in odd numbers and not yellow (infidelity). And gifted knives are enemies, scarves - tears alone, clocks - certain divorces. Don't sit on the corner of the table or try to whistle in the house - poverty as nothing.

Europeans don't walk under ladders, don't break mirrors, use church bells to ward off evil spirits, to this day. Evil spirits lurk everywhere, if you leave your wet pants in China overnight, outside, inevitably in the morning the evil spirits are already there. To get rid of them, the Italians escort the deceased to the cemetery by one route and return by another, in order to confuse the ghost cleverly, as there is no going home. The Japanese hide their thumbs in a flash at the sight of a cemetery procession, as their parents may soon depart this world. Evil spirits in Greece have no chance of entering a house unless there is a cactus in front of the entrance. You are in a Polish hospital, if the flowers you receive are white and red and you see them in the same vase, you are dead. Anyway, it's not recommended to take flowers out of the hospital because you might not come back from it next time.  And what's a poor Chinese man who is eating noodles supposed to say. He might choke because if he tries to cut it short, he will cut his life short. English people are not allowed to go bald, because baldness brings home loss, death of a child and total financial collapse. This is probably why toupees (wigs) are so popular.

We could go on forever with these examples. If one were to collect them, it would make a book bigger than the Bible.
Sometimes it is easier to grab a button at the sight of a chimney sweep than to think rationally. The success of these superstitions and superstitions, lies in the power of faith. For further on man, encounters problems he cannot, cannot, does not want to understand. Witchcraft works, it allows the status quo to be preserved as such in the struggle against bad luck. Superstition is innocent as long as it does not affect the lives of others; this is not always the case. Superstition's big sister, religion, still divides people, causes tension and unrest.