S UPERSTITIONS !

W HAT IS IT ? A superstition is a belief that a particular thing, event or circumstance holds some kind of significance that something going to happen (bad or good) even though it’s not based on knowledge or reason. This belief can be based on fear, ignorance, trust in magic, coincidence, or a prior experience with a similar situation.

W HICH ONES DO YOU KNOW ? 1. It is good luck to spit on a new baseball before you use it.

2. It is bad luck if a black cat crosses your path.

3. It’s good luck if you find one with four leaves.

4. It’s good luck to find a penny, heads up.

5. It’s good luck if a dolphin follows your ship.

6. It’s good luck to hang a horseshoe above your door.

7. It’s bad luck to walk under a ladder.

8. It’s good luck if a butterfly lands on you.

9. It’s bad luck if you say “Bloody Mary” 3 times in a mirror

BUT….if you’re NOT superstitious…..……

10. A rabbit’s foot is considered to be lucky.

11. It is good luck to throw salt over your right shoulder.

12. It’s bad luck to open an umbrella inside.

13. Make a wish when you see this in the sky.

14. If you Knock on Wood, you won’t have bad luck.

15. Make a wish when your eyelash falls out.

16. This is the luckiest number.

17. This is the most unlucky number.

18. Every time a bell rings, and angel gets it’s wings.

18. If you sneeze, say, “God Bless You,” or your soul will be lost for eternity.

20. If your ears are burning, someone is talking about you.

21. It’s good luck to cross your index and middle finger.

22. If a girl is getting married you have to have something: old, new, borrowed, and blue.

23. If your right palm itches then you’ll lose money or something of value, left palm itches, you’ll gain money…both palms itch? I’d go see a doctor.

23. If you break a mirror, you will have 7 years of bad luck.

24. If you eat an apple a day… it keeps the doctor away.

25. There is gold at the end of a rainbow…

26. If you don’t hold your breath while going past a cemetery, the dead will take your soul.

27. K ISS UNDER THE MISTLETOE..

28. D ON ’ T MOVE AN OLD BROOM TO A NEW HOUSE – IT SWEPT UP ALL THE BAD LUCK IN THE OLD.

29. B AD NEWS / DEATHS ALWAYS COMES IN GROUPS OF THREE.

30. B REAKING THE BREAST BONE ( WISH BONE ) OF A TURKEY WILL BRING YOU GOOD LUCK.

H OW DOES THIS RELATE TO CAESAR ? What superstition does Caesar deal with?

I T A LL S TARTED S OMEWHERE ! Now when we say “Beware the Ides of March” it means to beware of danger!