Anyway, Let me know if you do follow some superstitions even if it is just for fun. Or which ones you think are extremely ridiculous.
Very good, because superstitions are part of our daily lives and some are so strange that you can't help but wonder: who was the crazy person who invented this?
Going a little further, I've heard of other things too, such as...
Throwing salt over your left shoulderThis is a popular legend among the Turkish people. For them, all misfortune would be the fault of an evil angel who lives on our left shoulder and stays there trying to harm us. To avoid misfortune, the secret would be to blind him with a little salt in your eyes.
Crossing your fingersEveryone knows this one, but do you know its origin? In places and times when being a Christian was dangerous, such as the Roman Empire, crossing your fingers was a way of referring to the cross and asking for the protection of Jesus Christ without being noticed. Little by little, the religious meaning was lost and the gesture began to be interpreted simply as a request for good luck.
HorseshoeThis is a very curious one and I had to do some research to remember the details, such as the name and the period... Legend has it that Saint Dunstan, who was a blacksmith and lived in the 10th century, received a customer one day asking for a horseshoe for himself (instead of for a horse). When taking the man's measurements, Dunstan realized that his foot was cracked and had only two toes: it was the devil himself.
To teach him a lesson, the blacksmith pressed the nails right into the middle of the devil's foot, causing so much pain that the devil never dared to go near a horseshoe. In the US and England, horseshoes should be worn with the open part facing upwards, so that good luck doesn't "fall".
And there are many more, but these are the ones I remember now.