by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
​Superstitions come in many forms for different people, but some take it more seriously than others. Some believe in superstitions, just in case At the turn of the century progress was in the air, but those customs that could bring you good fortune and ill as well could not be forgotten.

Actors were known to be the most cautious. They wouldn't whistle or kill a spider in the dressing room. Directors wouldn't start a movie or a journey on Friday the 13th.

Those in the Low Country believed that if someone puts the shape of a coffin made of string in front of the door, someone in the house would die. A dog howling underneath a window at night forewarned of the same event.

If you were going to brag then knock on wood or underneath a table if it's made of that material.

If you had hairy arms you would be rich. Hairs on the legs meant that you would be raising pigs. Tea leaves in a cup of tea meant visitors would soon arrive.

​A verse about sneezing: 
Sneeze on Monday, sneeze for danger
Sneeze on Tuesday, kiss a stranger
Sneeze on Wednesday, sneeze for a letter
Sneeze on Thursday, something better
Sneeze on Friday, sneeze for sorrow
Sneeze on Saturday, joy tomorrow.

Two movies were made in 1982 and 2001 with the title of Superstition ​Other superstitions were:Never to return borrowed salt;Never turn back when once started on a journey;A spell of laughing is a sign that you will surely be crying before bedtime;Thirteen is also an unlucky number;If your ears burn someone is talking about you;If your nose itches on the left side a gentleman is coming, if it itches on the right side, a lady is coming;If when your finger is itching you scratch it on wood and make a wish, then the wish will come true;Turn your money over before you speak when you see a new moon and it will increase;Wishing on the first star out and on eyelashes is frequently doneAlso when two people say the same word together if the finger is bitten, and linked into the other person and both make a wish the first one that speaks loses the wish.​ However if you think that the belief in superstition is a thing of the past even now, movies are made about the subject.