SUPERSTITION IS THE POETRY OF LIFE, SO THAT IT

DOES NOT INJURE THE POET TO BE SUPERSTITIOUS.

(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe)

BED SUPERSTITIONS

• It is said one should never sleep with their feet towards the door, because only corpses lie like that.

• Some believe it is very unlucky to get out of bed backwards.

• In Scotland, there is the belief that it is unlucky to leave the bed while making it. If the bed making is interrupted, the occupant of the bed will pass a sleepless night, or some much worse evil will befall him or her.

• Some believe that if three people take part in making a bed, there is sure to be a death in the household with in the year.

CELEB SUPERSTITIONS

• Lionel, Ethel, and John Barrymore always gave each other an apple on the night of a show’s premiere.

• Jimmy Connors wouldn’t compete in a tennis match without a little note from his grandma tucked into his sock.

• The late actor Jack Lemmon always whispered “magic time” as filming started on a new movie.

• American inventor Thomas Edison carried a staurolite, a stone that forms naturally in the shape of a cross. Legend has it that when fairies heard of Christ’s crucifixion, their tears fell as these little “ferry cross” stones.

• Actress Gretta Garbo always wore a lucky string of pearls.

• Mario Andretti the famous racecar driver would not sign autographs with a green pen.

• Actor John Wayne always considered it extremely lucky to be in a movie with fellow actor Ward Bond.

• Baseball pitcher Randy Johnson always ate pancakes before a game.

“SUPERSTITION BRINGS THE GOD’S INTO

EVEN THE SMALLEST MATTERS.”

(Titus Livy)