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Do any superstitions of "childhood folklore" still linger with you as an adult?
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Asked 2 years ago
by SpangeNW  United Kingdom |
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When I was very little, I was in thrall to the older kid who lived next door and believed their pronouncements almost without question. These ranged from health issues: "If you swallow bubble gum it will wrap around your heart and you'll die" to the environment: "We have to feed that tree with mud every day or it will fall onto our houses and kill us" to the merely odd: "Four is an evil number, never do anything four times or something terrible will happen". Note the lethality aspect was very important.
One thing they told me was that magpies are very evil creatures and that to avoid their wrath, on seeing a magpie you should count to ten to show your respect. This had to be done for every magpie in sight. To this day, despite my efforts to the contrary, I almost completely unthinkingly count to ten when I see the monochrome terrors - utterly irrational I know.
Don't feel bad...I still throw salt over my shoulder whenever I spill the shaker. Completely rational on everything else, but not that!
I "Karma Cap" things, but that only started a couple years ago.
And I know quite a few people that always hold their breath whenever driving by a cemetery so the dead people "can't tell there's a living soul nearby." Never quite saw the point in that. I love cemeteries ... they're always so peaceful, even in big cities. Always a good place to take a walk.
How did I get on to cemeteries? My goodness!
Darnit,...I forgot about the cemetery thing...
Karma Cap? I hadn't heard about that before?
Karma Cap is like knocking on wood. You do it whenever you say something and then think, "Oh darn, now it's going to happen to me."
But instead of knocking on wood, you make your hands into a peak over your head, rather like the "A" when doing the YMCA dance thing, which is the gayest dance EVER. Just for the record. Of course, when I need to Karma Cap, one hand is usually full of stuff, so the one-handed Karma Cap is called a Karma Hood. Then you just float your free hand over your head like a hood.
This is what color guard does to you. Makes you crazy.
Man O Man! What kind of neighborhood did you live in? Did they do Voodoo there too?
Heh, no Voodoo, but we ritually sacrificed younger brothers and sisters to the Gods of BMX. If they wanted them, we wouldn't make it when we jumped our bikes over them =D
I still believe in Santa Clause.
Not me. I want to see if the Tooth Fairy looks like the one I once saw in a cartoon.
They're just fun to 'still believe' in! Heaven knows as adults we've learned there are very few things we really CAN believe in, so it's fun to continue belief when it makes no real difference.
Religion explained in two sentences!