Weird Superstition That I Have

There are many different superstitions in the world. There is to many to decide which one I want to follow. I decided I want to follow more than one. I believe the superstition about knocking on wood. If I say something that I am joking about and I do not want it to happen, I knock on wood. The act of knocking on the wood is like deleting what i just said. It deletes the thing I said and I believe it will go away. Another superstition I have is blowing out the candles on a birthday cake. When the child makes a wish, it should come true. The only way it would not come true is if the person did not blow all the candles out. This is a hard thing to do the older the person is. If a person is thirty, they have a lot more candles to blow out that a ten year old. They must get all the candles out in one blow. Birthday wishes always come true. It is the one day that is your day and the wish deserves to become true, and it will. Seeing a black cat is another superstition I have. If I see a black cat, I believe that bad luck will strike. I started to believe this because when I was a little girl, my neighbor was pregnant. She said she saw a black cat and now she is pregnant. This is what started my fear of black cats. I was ten years old and I did not want to be pregnant, so I could not look at a cat. I believe that if a person walks under a ladder will have bad luck for seven years. I believe this because if a person is lazy enough to walk under the ladder they deserve to have bad luck. Swallowing gum is another superstition. I was told when I was a little girl, that if I swallow gum, it will stay in my body for seven years. I did not swallow fum because I did not want to die from gum build up.