luckySeveral items or happenings are considered lucky or unlucky
Lucky
- Finding a penny on heads
- Horseshoes
- Four-leaf clovers
- Rabbit's feet, (unlucky to say 'rabbit' on the Isle of Portland)
- Ladybugs
- Elephant with the trunk pointing up
- The number seven.
- knocking on wood
- Crossing your fingers.
- tea stalk standing upward on the bottom of a cup
Unlucky
- Friday the 13th.
- The number 13 (Many buildings skipped 13 when numbering their floors for this reason
- Black cat crossing your path
- Stepping on a crack (it breaks the back of the stepper's mother)
- Breaking a mirror (seven years bad luck)
- Spilling over salt (When salt was more precious than gold, if you spilt some it meant that a demon was trying to steal your salt, but by appeasing it with a little salt over your left shoulder the demon would leave).
- Putting a hat on a bed
- Opening an umbrella indoors
- Killing a ladybug/ladybird
- Killing a spider in your home.
- Walking underneath a ladder (when being hanged, the condemned man would often be made to pass underneath a ladder before climbing it and onto the gallows)
- saying "good luck"
- replying "thank you" to someone wishing you good luck
- picking up a penny face-down (can be avoided by giving the penny away).
- putting shoes on a table. In the UK, this is considered to bring extremely bad luck, traditionally the death of a person in the house. This is sometimes specified to only be unlucky when new shoes are put on a table (probably causing a few less deaths!)
- In the British Navy it was traditionally considered unlucky to have a woman on board ship.
- Among sailors it is considered unlucky to kill an albatross or a porpoise.
- Among sailors it is considered bad luck to have anything blue aboard.
- Saying "good luck" to an actor going onstage (preferred: "Break a leg")
- In theaters, "Macbeth" must not be uttered by anyone unless it is necessary to the show (i.e. the company is performing Shakespeare's Macbeth); instead, one says "the Scottish Play" and refers to the characters as "Mackers" and "Lady Mackers"
- sinistrality - being left-handed.
- Seeing one magpie
- When a bird Flys into your window, that means a person in your family will die today or has died last night.
luck is a form of superstition which is interpreted differently by different individuals. i didn't do what i had written above. but i strike 4D!! this time 2 numbers in a row. wahaha. it lucky that i buy ibet. the lucky number is 0894 which is the last 4 digits of my (identity card)IC and 1385 which i dun know how it came from. small win is better than nothing. ^_^
to be continue~
