1. Spain Sport & Languages 7R, 8O, 9C Superstitions and Customs

2. Superstitions Spanish

3. Tuesday, not Friday, the 13th is unlucky "Martes 13: ni te cases, ni te embarques” Tues 13th: Don´t get married, nor board (a ship or plane)"

4. When offering a toast, look every person in the group in the eye, it's bad luck not to do so!

5. It is considered bad luck to pass the salt to someone – you have to put it back down on the table first!

6. If, while sweeping, the broom hits the feet of a single person, that person will never marry.

7. customs Spanish

8. Siesta If you are a person who firmly believes in 'why stand when you can sit?' and 'why sit when you can lie down?' then the siesta will, quite possibly, be your favourite Spanish custom. The word siesta derives from the Latin sexta, as in hora sexta or 'sixth hour'. A siesta is a short afternoon nap generally taken after 2pm and following lunch, the main meal of the day for most Spaniards. The period of siesta itself is usually about two hours long and most people will take a short nap of about 30 minutes during this time.

9. Weddings Before the wedding and making their vows the groom will present his bride with 13 gold coins representing Christ and his 12 apostles. The bride will then carry these in a little bag to the wedding ceremony. It was traditional in Spain for the bride to wear a black silk dress with a lace veil. Nowadays, though, the bride tends to go for the popular white bridal gown. During the ceremony, you might see El Lazo, the lasso. This is a beautiful crucifix that is wrapped around the wrists of the couple. The couple will wear this throughout the ceremony. It represents their love and how it binds the couple together. After the wedding, the bride keeps El Lazo as a memento of the day.

10. Spanish tradition has it that the Three Kings, los Reyes Magos, are the ones who on the morning of 6 January, el Día de Reyes, bear presents for all the children, repeating the ritual they performed after baby Jesus was born. So Spanish children get their presents on 6 January and not 25 December.