Irish Superstitions

Loadsamoney

With Friday the 13th tomorrow I was thinking the Irish have a fair few strange superstitions.

If the palm of your hand itches you will be coming into money. If it's your elbow you will be changing beds. If your ear itches and it is red and hot, someone is speaking bad of you.

Any others?

DublinWriter

Yeah...never buy a holiday apartment in Croatia.

Sindri

If I don't masturbate constantly I'll Die.

crosstownk

I spoke to a woman today who won't collect her new car tomorrow because it's Friday 13th. I can't believe how seriously some people take this superstitious stuff.

MrJoeSoap

I take a cheese and onion crisp, and a salt and vinegar one, and I eat them both in the same go.

SafeSurfer

Funny Irish superstition.

If one doesn't pay ze Germans we will all go hungry and die.

Gee Bag

If you don't shoot heroin regularly then your bound to get ill

DEFTLEFTHAND

Banshee wailing signaling an impending death in the house. Also can be the shadow of a hangmans noose appearing on the walls of the house in the hours leading up to the death.

Gee Bag

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RickRoll

People blessing themselves when they drive past a church or graveyard.

puzzle factory

i knew a lad that fell asleep with his socks on and woke up blind,fact.

Sindri

puzzle factory wrote: »

i knew a lad that fell asleep with his socks on and woke up blind,fact.

Did he by any chance go to sleep blind?

Frank Black

As long as there's at least 2 county separation between you and your partner when you cheat on them, it doesn't count.

Sindri

A deep paranoia that people are judging all the time...









Wait, this is Ireland.

Morning Wood

black francis wrote: »

As long as there's at least 2 county separation between you and your partner when you cheat on them, it doesn't count.

And you're cool with her saying that all the time?

ChunkyLover_53

If you're from the country, you must wear a GAA jersey when in Dublin. Regardless of there being a match on.

All people from Dublin will be regarded with suspicion by all other counties.

Don't masturbate near Fairy Forts.

If you use the M50 motorway you must pay the toll before 8pm the next evening.

You must buy jam donuts when you enter a Superquinn.

starbelgrade

crosstownk wrote: »

I spoke to a woman today who won't collect her new car tomorrow because it's Friday 13th. I can't believe how seriously some people take this superstitious stuff.

I was talking with a car dealer last year about the same thing - he said that no-one ever buys or picks up a car on Friday the 13th & that it's the quietest day of their trading year whenever it falls in that year.

Fenian Army

Banshees, probably a coincidence but I once heard a horrible shriek the like of which I've never heard before when I was out walking my dog at night and less than 5 mins later saw a car crash in which someone died

Morning Wood

starbelgrade wrote: »

I was talking with a car dealer last year about the same thing - he said that no-one ever buys or picks up a car on Friday the 13th & that it's the quietest day of their trading year whenever it falls in that year.

Wow - some people are just retarded. :eek:

admiralofthefleet

we are the only country in the world that considers a black cat crossing your path as good luck. fact

(could also be a load of bollix)

Lawrence1895

RickRoll wrote: »

People blessing themselves when they drive past a church or graveyard.

Or when an ambulance passes their way

Superbus

That whole magpie business.

yellow hen

Don't move house on a saturday
Don't cut your toenails on a Sunday


.........at least that's what me mammy always said..

castletownman

Always sleep straight in the bed or you'll never grow up tall

Chuck Stone

A bird pecking at your bedroom window in the middle of the night means you're going to get cancer.




I just made that up.

Kxiii

Just noticed that tomorrow is Friday 13th and I have to take a spin down the R666 good thing I'm not superstitious.

An uncle of mine would never hammer a nail on Good Friday.

guppy

You're not allowed to make big purchases for a baby before its born.

Seriously, the horrified looks I got when I bought the pram at 5 months pregnant were almost enough to make me violent. When asked when I should be doing said shopping, I was told after the baby was born. Seriously, cos thats what I want to be doing post-partum rather than say, recovering?

Standard Toaster

If a bird shites on you it's a sign of luck.


1 for sorrow
2 for joy
3 a girl
4 for a boy
5 for silver
6 for gold
7 for a secret never to be told




If you step on the cracks on the footpath you'd die.



Ichy feetz = travel awaits you.



Break a mirror - 7 years bad luck



If you swallowed chewing gum it would all lodge up in your stomach and you'll die.

starbelgrade

Standard Toaster wrote: »

If you swallowed chewing glue it would all lodge up in your stomach and you'll die.

Glue might actually do that!

Standard Toaster

starbelgrade wrote: »

Glue might actually do that!

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