In general down south, eating black-eyed peas at New Year’s usually meant good luck for the coming year.

“Hold your breath when you pass a gravyard and you will live 5 seconds longer”
“kiss tour palm and then the top of the ceiling when you pass under a yellow light and good things will happen to you”
AND
“Pick your feet up when you go overtop of a railroad or you’ll get your feet hurt BADLY”

I used to be VERY superstitious and I’ve heard of all these. I’ve put most of these (and more) behind me except two: Hat on the bed and not walking through a triangle (where the ground and two things create a triangle); basically, I don’t go under a ladder or under a guywire for a power pole.

Here are a few of mine:
1. Whistling in the house brings bad luck
2. Disturbing an ant hill will bring rain
3. Never spend money on a Monday or the first of the month, you will end up spending all week/month respectively
4. For children, never pass under something, you will stop growing. To reverse, you have to walk backwards the same way.
5. Pregnant women should not take (steal) and eat any food without asking, a birthmark will appear on the child’s face. To reverse, you would have to spit out whatever you put in your mouth, pass it behing you back. This action would move the birthmark from face to back (provided you are caught while still chewing on the stolen food)
6. If you can easily light a good fire (as opposed to those stuggling to keep it going) will hopelessly love a gypsy
7. Dont let you mother in law (for women) stir your dinner, she will end up stirring your marriage too
8. During puberty(for girls), if sit on cold surfaces such as pavement, rock, stone bench your fertility will seep into it
9. If you get the cherry highest on the cherry tree, you will have luck for 7 years. The challenge here is getting to it, and getting to it before any bird does while ripe.
10. If it rains on your wedding day, you will be blessed with riches and happiness.

I know some other ones too, but these are my favourite!

never have 3 people doing the same thing. either the youngest or the eldest will die (i never remember wich one, mostly because i’m normaly the one in the midle, so not my problem ;)).

never say 666 three times in a row or the devil will spot you and never let you go (this one scared the bejesus out of me when I was litle).

when you loose something tie a not to the leg of your dinnig table and you will soon find it.

never go under anything if you don’t expect to get back the same way. aparently your life force will be traped under it.

I gess a lot of this was invented by bored kids wanting to make their little circle a special one. others just made sense a loooong time ago.

We used to do this when i was in high school. it was thought to add 10 minutes to your sex life. :)
posted by kat

We did that, too, except we punched the ceiling. You can’t really tell if it works or not, because c’mon, how are you really going to know? But it was fun anyhow.

I know, I’m a freak.

My Mom totally agrees with the no purses on the floor thing, by the way.