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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.

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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...

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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.