AIRPLANES

Lucky

Before flying...Touching wood ensures against misfortune...You must touch a living tree.
Carrying a lucky charm ensures against danger.
Neatly cross the seatbelts of vacant seats...This keeps malevolent spirits happy.

Unlucky

Having live flowers on board.

AMBULANCE...Unlucky...

ANGLING (fisherman)

Lucky
Putting a coin on a float.
Throwing back the first fish of the catch.

Unlucky

Changing rods during fishing.
A female stepping over your fishing rod.
Baiting a hook using your left hand.
Sitting on an upturned bucket.
Casting without spittin on the bait.

AUTOMOBILE

Lucky

Transferring "lucky" items from an old car to a new one.
Buying a car from a rich person may increase your own finances.

Unlucky

Buying a car on the thirteenth of any month.
Changing a trouble-free car for a new one.
Green cars. They blend into natures background.

AXE

Unlucky

Bringing an axe into the home presages death of a family member or close friend.

BATS

Lucky

A bat falling on you or hitting you.

Unlucky

Having a bat in the house is a sign of death in the family.
Seeing a bat in the daytime.
Killing a bat shortens your life.
Bats flying around a wedding ceremony.

BEE

Lucky

If a bee flys into your house.

Unlucky

Killing a bee.
A bee dying in your house.

BIRDS

Lucky

Birds flying striaght towards you.

Unlucky

Bird flying into the house through an open window...Death Omen...
Bird flying down the chimney...Death Omen...
Bird tapping on the window...Death omen.
Bird constantly flying around a house or hovering above...Death Omen...
"Crow" Like the raven is considered to be a bird that's a bad omen.

BIRTHDAYS

Monday's child is fair of face
Tuesday's child is full of grace
Wednesday's child is full of woe
Thursday's child has far to go
Friday's child is loving and giving
Saturday's child works hard for a living
But the child born on the Sabbath, is lucky, bonny, wise and gay.

Lucky

If a baby is born with a caul over his or her face, he or she will be lucky and rich.
If a child is born feet first, they will have magical or healing powers.
If a baby's first tooth appears on the lower jaw, they will have a long live.

Unlucky

Good Friday births, they will have sadness all their lives.
Babies born in May...Usually sickly and never do really well.
Babies should not see themselves in a mirror before they are six months old.

BREAD

Unlucky

Singing while making bread
Setting a loaf of bread upside down on the table.
Leaving a piece of bread uneaten on your plate.
Cutting a loaf on both ends.

BROOM

Lucky

Bringing a new broom into a new house when you move.

Unlucky

borrowing a broom
lending a broom.
Having a broom fall over near you.
Leaving a broom standing on it's bristles.

BUBBLES

Lucky

Having and drinking bubbles that are floating on the top of your coffee, tea, or milk.

CALENDAR

Unlucky

Hanging a new calendar up before the new year.
Turning a calendar ahead before the new month or day.

CATS

Lucky

Owning a black cat.
Touch a black cat.
Having a black cat enter your home or greet you at someone else's door.
Seeing three black cats in succession.

Unlucky

Meet or see a black early in the morning.
Have a black cat turn it's back on you.
Chase away a black cat.
Hearing cat cries before setting off on a journey.
A sick person sees two cats fighting...Death Omen...
A black cat leaves the house of a sick person and refuses to go back...Death Omen...
A sick person dreaming of cats...Death Omen...

COINS

Lucky

Carrying a coin with a hole in it.
Carrying a bent coin.
Throwing a coin into a fountain.
Finding a coin in the rain.
Carrying a coin with your date of birth on it.
Picking up a coin from the ground that is heads up.
keeping a jar of pennies in the kitchen.
Turning over a silver coin in your pocket when you see a full moon. Make a wish.

Unlucky

Picking a coin up from the ground that is not heads up.
Putting coins in more than one pocket.
Giving someone a purse or wallet, unless you put a coin in it.
Keeping coins in more than one pocket.

CLOTHES

Lucky

If you accidentally put you clothes on inside out. Do not change them or you will change your luck.
Make a wish when you put on new clothes for the first time.
Put a coin in the pocket, if you have one.

Unlucky

Doing up your buttons up on you clothes.
Putting clothes on with your left arm first.

COLORS

Lucky

Colors that are considered lucky if worn on certain days.

See My List for today's Lucky color.

CORPSE

Lucky

To touch a corpse

Unlucky

To carry a corpse out the back door.
To carry out the corpse head first...His ghost may return...

CRYING

Lucky

Children who cry loud and long, will live long.
Crying at weddings and christenings.

Unlucky

Doing up your buttons up on you clothes.
Tears falling on a grave during a funeral ceremony...The deceased will not rest in peace.

CUTLERY

Unlucky

Dropping cutlery...unless someone else picks it up.
Knife falls, gentleman calls,
Fork falls, lady calls.
Spoon falls, baby squalls.

CRICKET

Unlucky

Coming into the house.
Killing a cricket.

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