stupid superstitions

Grab All Association

Irishexaminer wrote:

A Cork woman put a curse on gardaí that they or someone in their families would die.

Judge Olann Kelleher said it was a serious threat and he put the case against Madeline Higgins, of 239 Comeragh Park, The Glen, Cork, back for one week.

The 47-year-old was given a three-months jail term suspended for two years on the condition that she would write a letter of apology within one week.

A serious threat would be brandishing a knife or other implement. Absolutely ridiculous in this day and age that spells and curses was brought up during the case and taken as a serious threat. Not condoning her behaviour btw, but charge her for a crime that’s provable.

I recently seen a 06 Bentley in Cork city 06-D-666. Reminded me of a story from the 1990s in Upperchurch or Drombane about the priest pleading with the owner of a car to get rid because it had a 666 in the reg.

I thought we left all that nonsense behind in the 1980s.

Pauliedragon

Either you or the examiner are only telling half the story. She threatened to kill the cop and his family.

NIMAN

I remember when I used to play local league football, no-one wanted to wear the No13 shirt.

Badly Drunk Boy

This is what she said:

Higgins said, “I will put a curse on you. I hope you die. I hope someone belonging to you dies. My people will find you. If I don’t come across you I will come across your family.”

The bit in bold make it more of a threat rather than a curse.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/cork-woman-put-a-curse-on-gardai-950254.html

Doctors room ghost

NIMAN wrote: »

I remember when I used to play local league football, no-one wanted to wear the No13 shirt.

Most hotels won’t have a 13th floor

Wayne Jarvis

Why do they give her home address in the story? Is that normally done?

Purple Mountain

Was she from a particular culture?

ArnoldJRimmer

Was just talking to a co-worker about how weird people can get if someone has died in a house. As long as someone disposed of the body before I moved in, wouldn't bother me

poppers

Simi or one of the motor dealer reps getting the gov to change to 131 reg to avoid unlucky 13
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/2013-number-plates-to-be-changed-to-avoid-unlucky-13-26890349.html

NIMAN

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Was just talking to a co-worker about how weird people can get if someone has died in a house. As long as someone disposed of the body before I moved in, wouldn't bother me

Travellers used to burn the house, didn't they?

Not sure if it was superstition or something else?

ArnoldJRimmer

NIMAN wrote: »

Travellers used to burn the house, didn't they?

Not sure if it was superstition or something else?

Not sure, have only ever seen it on Snatch

topper75

Yeah I think it is clear that the judge was more mindful of the threat than the curse. Threatening anybody is a crime. Threatening a member of the executive force of the law is a challenge to the authority of the state. She is always going to come out the wrong end of that.
We await her heartfelt letter.

freshpopcorn

Guy Person wrote: »

Why do they give her home address in the story? Is that normally done?

News reports about court cases often feature the persons home address!

my3cents

I had a woman freak out once when I was doing an asset check on a companies computer system and putting an asset tag sicker on every system. The number was of course 666 but the really weird thing was the company was reorganising the phone system at the same time and a few days earlier she had been given 13 as her extension number.

NIMAN

ArnoldJRimmer wrote: »

Not sure, have only ever seen it on Snatch

It happened in Derry on a row of houses outside my primary school.

And end of row house.

tdf7187

Grab All Association wrote: »

I recently seen a 06 Bentley in Cork city 06-D-666.

Yes I've seen that car, here is a photo of it at the Terenure motor show from a few years back:

https://imgur.com/a/CsQydZX

I think you'd want to have a sense of humour to drive a car with a reg like that. I remember there used to be UK reg Jaguar XJS with 666 as part of the number plate in the Ballsbridge area years back.

Doctors room ghost

NIMAN wrote: »

Travellers used to burn the house, didn't they?

Not sure if it was superstition or something else?

The shelbys are the whole time at it

Dammo

poppers wrote: »

Simi or one of the motor dealer reps getting the gov to change to 131 reg to avoid unlucky 13
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/2013-number-plates-to-be-changed-to-avoid-unlucky-13-26890349.html

Truly embarrassing. Perfectly good system messed up. Clowns.

Del.Monte

NIMAN wrote: »

Travellers used to burn the house, didn't they?

Not sure if it was superstition or something else?

It still happens quite frequently and then the council provide a new one - with stables!

dreamers75

Cork.

4068ac1elhodqr

NIMAN wrote: »

I remember when I used to play local league football, no-one wanted to wear the No13 shirt.

Am looking forward to tommorow's 'Fri 13th', as it is then, that I shall win the Euromills of €160,000,000 a lovely day it will be.

Gaspode

All superstitions are by their very nature 'stupid' and superstitious people equally so. Dont think a cure is any more stupid than the rest of them but you're right op, noone should pay any heed to a curse.

Oops!

Dammo wrote: »

Truly embarrassing. Perfectly good system messed up. Clowns.

A blatant effort to sell more new cars in the middle of the year, lame excuse.

Outlaw Pete

Have hexaphobia (fear of the number 6) for sure.

Have it years, think perhaps it started after watching a TV show in the 80's which was mainly about heavy metal bands and how their LPs had hidden messages which you could hear if you played them backwards, and on it they discussed Iron Maiden's Number of The Beast and spoke of how that number was cursed. Gave me the damn fear.

Tried to shake it over the years but can't. Once seen 666 in an IMEI on a phone I had and sold it as soon as I realised.

Fear of the number 4 (Tetraphobia) is common in East Asia.

cj maxx

True story. Thumbing home from cork, on Friday the 13th, in the back arse of longford, edgeworthstown, or some where, who pulls over to give me a lift only a hearse with a coffin in it. When he seen my face the driver assured me it was empty. Not being that superstitious I jumped in. Manys a person would have cleared

cj maxx

Those prayers on Facebook for finding/ curing things/ people

Graces7

Badly Drunk Boy wrote: »

This is what she said:

The bit in bold make it more of a threat rather than a curse.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/ireland/cork-woman-put-a-curse-on-gardai-950254.html

absolutely a threat. Had she not said that, a simple curse but that was a promise of violence Very different

The headline was over dramatizing and inaccurate

the beer revolu

Superstition brings bad luck.

Insect Overlord

the beer revolu wrote: »

Superstition brings bad luck.

I still wouldn't waste a good mirror, though. Or walk under a busy worker's ladder!

Immortal Starlight

My favourite is watching grown adults waving at single magpies.

my3cents

Immortal Starlight wrote: »

My favourite is watching grown adults waving at single magpies.

What is that superstition exactly? I know they are unlucky (allegedly) if seen on their own but I hadn't seen anyone waving at them.

My grandmother would have spat when she saw a white horse and I believe that was something to do with good luck. Even though all white horses are actually grays.

Immortal Starlight

my3cents wrote: »

What is that superstition exactly? I know they are unlucky (allegedly) if seen on their own but I hadn't seen anyone waving at them.

My grandmother would have spat when she saw a white horse and I believe that was something to do with good luck. Even though all white horses are actually grays.

Don't know really. Maybe they imagine they are waving bad luck away? It always looks ridiculous.

Ted_YNWA

Immortal Starlight wrote: »

My favourite is watching grown adults waving at single magpies.

my3cents wrote: »

What is that superstition exactly? I know they are unlucky (allegedly) if seen on their own but I hadn't seen anyone waving at them.

My grandmother would have spat when she saw a white horse and I believe that was something to do with good luck. Even though all white horses are actually grays.

Seeing one magpie is supposed to be bad luck. Waving or saluting it cancels out it out.

Ger Roe

One Friday 13th back in 1991, the new wife and I (honeymoon) were driving home from the north and just as we hit the south, the road had recently been re-surfaced and there was a warning sign about loose chippings. Myself and other cars were proceeding slowly over the loose surface when a truck sped past showering us in tarmac bits that smashed my windscreen.

At the time, the nearest option for replacement was to drive back into the north, but then I would run the same risk on the same road coming back down. Without internet research options, the only replacement windscreen service I could contact, was back in my home area of Sandyford.

So, I drove from the border to Sandyford with no windscreen, with both of us wearing sunglasses to protect us from the various bugs that sped through the car and splatted themselves on the back window. We looked like a deleted scene from The Blues Brothers.

I never believed in the bad luck of Friday 13th, but I certainly experienced some then.

hi5

Ted_YNWA wrote: »

Seeing one magpie is supposed to be bad luck. Waving or saluting it cancels out it out.

It probably originates from this poem...

Capt'n Midnight

the beer revolu wrote: »

Superstition brings bad luck.

True.

It's unlucky to be superstitious.

Conall Cernach

A fella I used to work for was blown up in dust explosions in a mill on two separate Good Fridays. When I worked for his business we always had Good Friday for a holiday.

DEFTLEFTHAND

"My hotel doesn't have a 13th floor because of superstition, but c'mon man, you people on the 14th floor know what floor you're really on.

If you jump out the window you will die earlier."


Mitch Hedberg.