1. Luky to meet a black cat ,Black Cats are featured on many good luck greeting cards and birthday cards in England.
2. Luck to touch wood.
3. Luck to find a clover plant with four leaves.
4. A horseshoe over the door brings good luck ,but the hores shoe needs to be the right way up.the luck runs out of the horse shoe if it is upside down.
5. On the first day of the month it is luky to say “white rabbits ,white rabbits,white rabbits,”before uttering your first word of the day.
6. Catch falling leaves in Autumn and you’re have good luck .every leaf means lucky month next year.
Bad Luck
1. Unlucky to walk underneath a laddr.
2. Seven years bad luck to break a mirror.
3. Unlucky to see one magpie ,luck to see two,etc..
4. Unlucky to spill salt .if you do ,you must throw it over your shoulder to counteract the bad luck.
5. Unlucky to open an umbrella in doors.
6. The number thiteen is unlucky,Friday the thriteenth is very unlucky day ,Friday is Considered to be an unlucky day because jesus was crucified on a Friday.
7. Unlucky to pass someone on the stairs.
8. Unlucky to put new shoes on the table.
Food superstition
When finished eating a boiled egg ,push the spoon through the bottom of the empty shell to let the devil out.
In Yorkshire ,housewives used to believe that bread would not rise if there was a corpse(dead body)in the vicinity ,and to cut off both ends of the loaf would make the Devil fly over the hourse.!
Animals
Animal feature a lot in our superstition as they do in superstitions around the world One ancient British superstition holds that if a child rides on a bear’s back it will be protected from whooping -cough(Bears used to roam Britain but now they are not seen on our shores
In some parts of the UK meeting two or three ravens together is considered really bad .one very english superstition concerns the tame ravens at the Tower of London .it is believed if they leave then the crown of England will be lost.