On New Year's Eve in Spain, not everyone kisses as the clock strikes twelve. The superstitious eat twelve grapes at midnight for 12 months of good luck.

 

In the 19th century, English men avoided salads if they wanted to start a family. In The Oxford Dictionary of Superstitions (Iona Opie and Moira Tatem, Oxford University ), a book on 'Plant Lore' suggests that lettuce was detrimental to child-bearing because it was a 'sterile' plant, and "as plants exhibited peculiarities in their actions, so were they supposed to operate on man".

 

In spain

* Remember how Latinos believe that both Friday and Tuesday the 13th are unlucky days? In Spain, only Tuesday the 13th is avoided like the plague for events or traveling. There’s even a saying that solidifies this belief: Martes 13: ni te cases, ni te embarques (literally meaning “Tuesday 13: Don’t get married nor embark [a ship],” it actually rhymes in Spanish

In french

Since then they freak out at the thought of having 13 people around the table for fear of the youngest person present to die prematurely. Either you kick one guest out or invite one more, but make sure nobody ends up getting the same treatment as Jesus did a couple of years back.

 

If you decide to give a knife to a friend, partner, or family member as a present, you take the risk to symbolically cut all the links of friendship and love between you and them. So as not to terminate your relationship with this person, they must, in return for the present, give you a small amount of money, making this a transaction rather than a gift-giving situation.

 

               

India : coconut and banyan trees are sacred trees for good luck

Spain : Tuesday 13 is unlucky

Brazil : if the right hand is scratching it means that we will lose money if it's the reverse with the left hand

the new year we must wear whiteto belucky

Portugal : it is bad luck to walk backwards

UK : it brings luck to say " white rabbits , white rabbits , white rabbits " on the first day of the month before saying anything else

in the soccer their also have supperstitons for exemple :

2)Gary Lineker never strikes during a workout before a game for fear of not finding a way to goal in the match.

or another one pretty funny :

 

In Portugal : it is bad luck to walk backwards, because it teaches the devil the way you walk.

In Serbia : if you bite your tongue, it means that your grandmother is planning to make a cake for you.

In Lithuania: a bird which defecates on you will bring you luck.

In Italy:  number 13 is considered lucky, it would bring prosperity and long life and Friday 17th is considered an unlucky day.  KM�M���

In France: to see a spider in the evening is a sign of luck

In UK: it brings luck to say "white rabbits, white rabbits, white rabbits" on the first day of the month before saying anything else.

 

-In Italy, unlike us  number 13 is not an unlucky number but it is said that this number brings luck !But for them, it is the number 17 which brings misfortune.

 

-That superstition is an old superstition, before we said « if you put the bread  the upside down , the devil will come »

 

-Now, we will speak about one superstition in Brazil,( it made  me smile) : It is considered unlucky to leave one's wallet or one's bag touch the ground : it means that we will lose money.

 

-In China and in Japon,  number 4 (which means  « death » in the 2 languages) brings bad luck that’s why in some  elevators there isn’t a fourth floor.

 

-In Turkey,to chew gums after the sun set is a  bad omen because the turks think the chewingum becomes the flesh of the dead.

 

-In Japon, children have to hide their belly during a storm if not Raiden(storm god) will come to steal and eat their belly button. 

In Italy,  Friday 17th brings bad luck like  Friday 13th in France.

In India,  cows bring luck.

 To open an umbrella in a house brings bad luck.

 To touch  wood brings luck.

 To touch one's head brings luck.

 To cross fingers brings luck.

Superstition 

In spain Tuesday 13 th brings bad luck because it is a word derived from March  which  means little devil.

In Egypt  the egyptians are afraid of owls because since  the Antiquity they have brought bad news. 

In France it is a sign of misfortune when you walk on a dog mess withthe right foot

In Bulgaria to receive a  bird mess brings happiness.

In Spain  to enter a room with the left foot brings bad luck