According to all reliable sources, here’s the proof:
1. Superstitions
come in threes.
2. Especially
when you walk under a ladder.
3. Even
worse on Friday the 13th.
4. But,
knock on wood, there is a solution:
5. Eat
an apple; it keeps the doctor away.
6. However,
it’s unclear which type of doctor: my hope is that it refers to plastic
surgeons.
7. Speaking
of distorted faces, go ahead and drop a mirror. Why? Who needs luck for the
better part of a decade? Kidding…the number seven is lucky so mirror-tossing
actually has a reverse effect. Boom.
8. All
four-leaf clovers are stored at the end of the rainbow.
9. When
black cats cross your path don’t look away in fear or you will miss the chickens
on their backs: that’s how they cross the road. Fingers crossed. (Side-note:
sometimes they step on cracks. Sorry Moms.)
10. Itchy
palms mean forthcoming mail related to money, sometimes debits, sometimes
credits, or maybe the phone is going to ring or maybe your ears will ring
because someone mentioned you on social media. (This one’s still confusing to me
because I don’t have Facebook.)
11. Find
a penny, pick it up, all day long, you’ll have a penny. Uh oh…this only works
outside of Canada.
12. Every
sixth Friday at dawn, animals can talk. (A cat told me this.)
13. Problems
are easy to solve if you’re an idiot, am I right?
You might be thinking: what is all this horseshoe? Sorry
for all the silliness. What motivates superstitions? Why do we humans think and do all these irrational things? Psychologists relate this behavior to the “uncertainty
hypothesis.” This is the idea that when people are unsure about the outcome of
a situation, they try to find a way to control it. These control-methods may be
odd. Nevertheless, they sometimes provide the mental boost needed to trick
ourselves into perseverance mode so we can push through fear of the unknown. Or
here’s another way to deal: just think rationally. Um, not so easy for us humans, is it? So friends...keep stepping on spiders and throwing salt if you need to. Either way, something will happen.
5 comments:
I thought it was eat a bowl of bran, keep the proctologist away.
I'm sure you're right; something always happens. I remember being quite diligent about avoiding crack stepping as a kid. I'm sure my mom is grateful.lol
You are hilarious! I wish I was superstition sounds like fun almost like daring the universe. Or maybe being irrational might bring back the child in me.
I think a lot of "bad luck" superstitions came about from adults trying to scare children out of doing things said that might be stupid, dangerous or undesirable. On the other hand, a lot of the "good luck" ones seem engineered to make people look stupid.
I think you're onto something when you say that people lean toward superstitions when they face an unsure situation. Damn, I do that myself.
What, you are not on Facebook? You are amazingly pure and my hat is off to you. Truly.
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