is there a superstition about walking under ladders?
To be fair, it’s one of the more reasonable superstitions considering the potential of being hit by a heavy falling object.
People won’t listen to “if you walk under a ladder you might get hit by a paint bucket” but they will listen to “if you walk under a ladder some nondescript aethereal force will give you bad luck”. What is wrong with our brains.
absolutely, yeah. there’s still a lot of construction folks/builders that refuse to do it. usually the same folks that have superstitions about tools (like never hand someone an unfolded pocket knife, no matter how safely you do it)
There’s a really weird thing in the Southeastern US where people will hand you pocketknives with the blade out always and you can’t hand it back closed. I don’t understand it.
Is that to do with showing the condition it was in, and that you didn’t break it?
One explanation ties this to a belief that closing a knife someone else opened can bring bad luck, or is considered bad manners. There’s also the practical side: if someone hands you an open blade, they’re entrusting you with a dangerous tool, and closing it before handing it back could suggest you don’t trust them to handle it properly.
Breaking mirrors, in this economy??
Until I zoomed in it looked like the 23th.
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