Superstitions

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• Chinese Wedding Superstitions

  
  EduBook — Authority: 157
  Tradition is everything when it comes to Chinese wedding superstitions. Often, such traditions and wedding superstitions age back hundreds of years and are serious business. Following or acknowledging such superstitions is considered an act of respect to one’s family, culture, and community. In fact, Chinese ...
  3 days ago

• Fuckin eejits

  
  Ghost of Goldwater — Authority: 132
  I dont normally critizise Norwegian affairs on this blog, since most of my readers are Americans, but the development in the Norwegian monarchy these last few weeks has been so appaling I cant keep quiet anymore. The royal princess, Martha Louise is... how should I put this delicately... A stark, raving nutter? No, ...
  4 days ago

• Bound by tradition

  
  Don't Put All Your Diapers Into One Diaper Bag — Authority: 121
  No matter how enlightened or liberal-minded I feel that I am, I constantly find myself restricted by cultural traditions and practices. Previously, it had to do with me being a bride-to-be and now, its because I am pregnant. Some time back, I was told by a cousin that I couldnt visit her newborn child because it is ...
  5 days ago

• 18 Super Superstitious Celebs

  
  Pop Crunch — Authority: 733
  Share Superstitions are beliefs or notions not based on reason or knowledge. They’re usually based on folk stories and old wives tales surrounding luck and fate, and are often tied to spirituality or even psychology. Celebrities are especially known to have superstitions, and this often applies doubly to those who ...
  1 week ago

• ... and things that go bump in the night

  
  THE BARKSDALE BUZZ: Behind the Scenes at Barksdale Theatre in Central VA — Authority: 122
  Posted by Bruce MillerTrue story. At least I think it’s true. Sometimes I inadvertently make this stuff up. Someone please help me out if my memories fail to jive with reality.About 30 years ago, right here in River City, an older woman (watch, it will probably turn out that she was in her mid- to late-50s, younger ...
  1 week ago

• TMI: The Football Version

  
  There's More to the Story — Authority: 133
  Okay, last night, the Colts played the Patriots. As any reader will know (or even casual reader, because, , first picture in the most recent weekly winners post is a Colts theme , ), I’m a huge Colts fan. So, of course, I watched the game last night. They were playing great. So, I got the idea, let’s put on ...
  1 week ago

• The Play That Dare Not Speak Its Name

  
  THE BARKSDALE BUZZ: Behind the Scenes at Barksdale Theatre in Central VA — Authority: 122
  Posted by Bruce MillerOnce you‘ve learned never to wish an actor “good luck” prior to a performance (see the previous post – “Break a Leg!” “Grrrrrrrrrr”), the second most pervasive theatre superstition to wrap your brain around is this: it is very bad luck to speak the name of the character or the ...
  1 week ago

• Writers Block: If these walls could talk

  
  VAS Littlecrow Founder's Blog — Authority: 139
  Would you rent or buy the home of your dreams if a brutal murder had taken place there? What if you got to live there rent-free? Would you think twice if neighbors warned you that it was haunted? View 916 Answers Would I? I have! I actually paid money to live there, because it was cheap. It was one of ...
  1 week ago

• Freaky Friday Extra: Superstition Is The Way

  
  A Dude's Guide — Authority: 127
  by Richard No, you haven’t entered some sort of time warp and been magically or scientifically transported back in time to those halcyon days of yesterday when it was, in fact, yesterday. Or Friday, whichever you prefer. It’s just that Friday was a significant event and I wanted to talk about it. See, yesterday ...
  1 week ago

• Lunar H2O & Superstitions: Friday Night Music Vid

  
  d'Arte Board — Authority: 133
  → Cool Space News ← “I thought this was a blog about art?” Shut up.  Nobody likes a know-it-all.  But here’s something we can all agree on:  Stevie Wonder + Sesame Street = More cool than you can shake a stick at!  I may have posted this vid here before. If so, oh well. It’s good enough to ...
  1 week ago

• Break a Leg! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr!!

  
  THE BARKSDALE BUZZ: Behind the Scenes at Barksdale Theatre in Central VA — Authority: 122
  Posted by Bruce MillerHappy Friday the 13th! What better time to begin a series on superstitions in the theatre?There seem to be 10 to 20 irrational but nonetheless traditional beliefs that have bounced around from time to time and stage to stage. There are certainly three that are observed with regularity right here ...
  1 week ago

• Superstition

  
  Delirium — Authority: 420
  Get your daily dose of Delirium via Reader or delivered via Email What is superstitions? Well this is what Wiki thinks it is ->Superstition is a credulous belief or notion, not based on reason, knowledge, or experience. The word is often used pejoratively to refer to folk beliefs deemed irrational. This leads ...
  1 week ago

• Paraskevidekatriaphobia: Fear of Friday the 13th

  
  Deconlabel — Authority: 450
  Looking for some interesting banter to throw into the conversation with your Friday night date? Paraskevidekatriaphobia may be just the ticket. Paraskevidekatriaphobia is defined as “fear of Friday the 13th.” Today marks the third time this year that there’s been a Friday the 13th.According tyo Wikipedia, the ...
  1 week ago

• Friday the 13th Could Be the Beginning of the End for Omar Khadr

  
  Crooked in Canada — Authority: 129
  There are no celebrations among supporters of Omar Khadr today, now that Eric Holder, America’s U.S. Attorney General has ruled that Omar Khadr, the only Canadian terrorist being held at Guantanamo Bay, is going to answer for the crimes of terrorism he is charged with in front of a military tribunal. Things ...
  1 week ago

• Friday the 13th Superstitions

  
  Personal Money Store — Authority: 596
  Friday the 13th...AND Black Friday in the same month - run to the hills! Today is Friday the 13th, and two weeks from now it will be Black Friday - Oh no! A black cat! From Wikimedia commons. now for some of us Friday the 13th means zilch, besides a series of increasingly ridiculous slasher flicks.  Since it ...
  1 week ago

• Friday the 13th Quotes are Historical

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 673
  Friday the 13th is an unlucky day in much of Western Europe, North America, and Australia. Many people avoid travel and avoid signing contracts on Friday the 13th. Floors in tall buildings often skip from 12 to 14. And while the superstition is believed to be fading, many still have a keen interest in the supposedly ...
  1 week ago

• Happy Friday the 13th!

  
  Eternal Vigilance — Authority: 132
  Unlike the reported 21 million Americans plagued by severe superstitions regarding the unholy day of Friday the 13th, I tend not to find myself hiding in my home and cringing from the universe on this day. And I am one of the most superstitious people you’ll probably meet. In America an estimated that [US]$800 or ...
  1 week ago

• Thank You for Paraskevidekatriaphobics and Superstitions

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 423
  Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the irrational fear of Friday the 13th. It has nothing to do with that terrifying movie. Though, I do have an irrational dislike for horror movies—I just don’t have a word for it. It is said that our associative superstition about Friday the 13th started back in the 1300’s in ...
  1 week ago

• Friday the 13th of November is a Superstitious Day

  
  HULIQ - Citizen News Review — Authority: 673
  Some are very superstitious when it comes to Friday the 13th. Today marks the 3rd time that Friday the 13th has occurred in 2009 (February, March, November). When the thirteenth day of a month falls on Friday, superstition holds this to be a day of good or bad luck. In the Gregorian calendar, this day occurs at least ...
  1 week ago

• Do We Make Our Children Superstitious?

  
  Motherlode — Authority: 630
  What are you superstitious about? Have you passed your superstitions along, knowingly or not, to your children?
  1 week ago

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