WALKING UNDER A LADDER
We all know that it's unlucky to walk underneath
ladders, but who really knows why it's unlucky? It
just so happens that in Africa there used to be a
giant spider that looked exactly like a ladder and
would spend all day standing in the jungle. When a
group of tribesmen would go out to gather
fruit, they would find the ladder spider. thinking that it
was a ladder somebody forgot from the last trip, they
would carry it to a tree and climb it to gather fruit. While
most ofthe tribesmen were up on the ladder gathering the
fruit, the spider was eating the other tribesmen that waited
for their turns underneath it! So remember, if you see a
ladder that nobody is using standing around, do whatever it
takes to chop off its legs before it gets the chance
to eat somebody. Everybody will thank you
for saving their lives later.
ok....that was just for the heck of it...now here's the real deal...
There are very practical reasons for thinking twice before walking under a ladder, but a more mysterious explanation can be traced back to ancient Egypt. The early Egyptians believed that the shape of the Pyramids had a special power. It was considered very bad luck to break the 'power' of this shape and that's exactly what walking under a ladder would do!
wow thats really cool info. i never thought of that. i totally believe in superstitions. espcially the owl death omen one. and the black cat one. if i had a list of them in front of me i would know which ones i believe in lol but for now those are the ones off the top of my head :) lol. thank you for the info.
The Roman Catholic Church considers superstition to be sinful in the sense that it denotes a lack of trust in the divine providence of God and, as such, is a violation of the first of the Ten Commandments. The Catechism of the Catholic Church states superstition "in some sense represents a perverse excess of religion"
In the forests of ancient China, when a Nivkhs hunter was pursuing game his children were forbidden to make drawings on wood or in sand; they feared that if the children did so, the paths in the forest would become as complicated as the lines in the drawings and that the hunter might lose his way and never return.
The belief that there is a magical bond between a wound and the weapon which caused it may be traced unaltered for thousands of years...Melanesian believed that if he obtains possession of the weapon which caused his wound, he should carefully keep it in a cool place so as to reduce the inflammation of the wound. But if the weapon is left in the enemy's possession, it will undoubtedly be hung up close to the fire, causing the wound to become hot and inflamed
Tetraphobia is widespread in China, Japan, Korea, and Hawaii; the use of number 4 is minimized or avoided wherever possible because the Chinese word for 4, sì, sounds nearly the same as the word for death, s . Mobile telephone numbers with 4 in them sell for less and some buildings even skip level four, labeling it the 5th floor instead. One of the Japanese words for 4, shi, is also homonymous with the kanji in the word for death, shi or shin. (However, there is another word for four in Japan that does not sound like death: yon.) In Korea, number '4' is pronounced as sa ( ) and is homonymous with 'death ( )'. Some, but not all, Korean buildings have the fourth floor written as 'F' floor
