I'm not Superstitious. I'm a Little stitious.

I was browsing the interweb, as I do from time to time - hop on the ol' super information highway - and came across some rather odd superstitions. Take a look at some of these humdingers:

Black cats are evil. In ancient Egypt, the Goddess Bast, was a black female cat. Christian priests wanted to wipe out all traces of other religions so convinced their ignorant followers to destroy the evil demons that were black cats. While they were at it, they destroyed the kindly little old ladies who cared for the cats believing them to be witches.

Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home. It is bad luck to kill a ladybug because it represents the Virgin Mary.

Pie In The Sky. Of course, this means to search for the impossible dream but it originated in the early 1900's. A famous labor organizer named Joe Hill was extremely critical of the clergy's treatment of slaves. He wrote a tune called 'The Preacher and the Slave" accusing the clergy of making false promises of a better life in heaven while people starved on earth. The song goes: 'Work and pray, live on hay. You'll get pie in the sky when you die. That's a lie!'

Skin Of Your Teeth. This saying means to barely escape from a harrowing situation. It comes from Job 19:20, where God inflicts all sorts of terrible things on one of those who love him. Poor Job had all his animals stolen, his children die, his house collapse and his body covered with sores. Job has this to say; "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I am escaped with the skin of my teeth."

Fleshpot. - Today 'fleshpot' describes decadence. In the time of Moses, it was a large pot in which to boil meat. Somehow, preachers managed to change the meaning to scare their flock about 'sins of the flesh'.

To make a scapegoat. - The poor scapegoat gets the punishment for everyone else's mistakes. God condoned this cruelty to animals in Leviticus 16:7-10 "And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the other for the scapegoat." The scapegoat got to escape, and carry the tribe's sins into the wilderness, to be eaten by some animal instead of being offered alive as a sacrifice for the Lord.

Hold your breath when passing a cemetary so as not to make the dead jealous

If you secretly put your toe-nail clippings in a glass of lemonade and make someone drink it, then that person is supposed to fall in love with you.

If lightning strikes a tree and you witness it then someone you know will die.

Don't leave your purse on the floor or you will stay broke, and don't buy your man a pair of shoes or he will walk out of your life forever.

You are supposed to lift your feet and hold your breath for good luck when you ride over a bridge.

Always lift your feet and touch a screw when you go over a train track.

Never pass the salt across the table from one person to another, or else you will start a fight.

If you sneeze on a Monday, you sneeze for danger;
Sneeze on a Tuesday, kiss a stranger;
Sneeze on a Wednesday, sneeze for a letter;
Sneeze on a Thursday, something better;
Sneeze on a Friday, sneeze for sorrow;
Sneeze on a Saturday, see your sweetheart tomorrow.
Sneeze on a Sunday, and the devil will have domination over you all week.

It's bad luck to leave shoes upside down.

If you drop scissors, it means your lover is being unfaithful to you.

If 13 people sit down at a table to eat, one of them will die before the year is over.

If 3 people are photographed together, the one in the middle will die first.

Mistletoe in the house protects it from thunder and lightning. It also cures many diseases, is an antidote to poison and brings good luck and fertility.

A girl standing under a mistletoe cannot refuse to be kissed by anyone who claims the privilege.

If a young girl catches a ladybug and then releases it, the direction in which it flies away will be the direction from which her future husband will come.

It is bad luck to kill a ladybug.

Knock On Wood: Most people don't know that you are only suppose to knock twice, not three times. Knocking twice prevents what you say from happening while the demons are preoccupied. Knocking three times gets their attention.

Walking under a ladder was unlucky because ladders were used in the hanging of witches and if you walked under one a dead witch might fall on you!

If you are walking with someone and you "split a pole" (one walks on one side of a pole the other person on the other side of the pole) it is bad luck.

If you have left the house and had to go back inside for something forgotten, you have to take the first 3 steps in backwards, or it is back luck.

The Native Americans believe that if you morn for someone too long that person will try to come and take you to the other world with them so you will quit missing them so much.

The Knights of Templar were rounded up on Friday the 13th, 1307, and the King was King Phillippe IV.

If you tell your dreams before breakfast they will come true

Never rock an empty rocking chair, it brings death to the family. If an empty rocking chair, rocks by itself, someone in the family will die.

If you happen to break a mirror.. You will NOT have 7 years bad luck if you LEAVE the shards of glass lie EXACTLY where they fell for 7 hours ... NOT A MOMENT MORE OR LESS!

See a penny pick it up and all the day you'll have good luck. See a penny let it lay, bad luck you'll have for the rest of the day

If you wash your hands with silver (coins) on New Years Day that you will always have money throughout the year.

If a black cat keeps its eye on a pregnant woman everynight it means the cat wants to suck the breath of your child

If a dead person's left eye is open he'll find someone to take with him