Symbols for bad luck

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:12 pm

Looking for every symbol for bad luck I can find. Any language / culture etc, modern or archaic.

skullservant · Post by **skullservant** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:18 pm

black cat
walking under a ladder
opening an umbrella inside
spilling salt
tails down penny
broken mirror
vultures
crows

'4' in Chinese culture

Achtane · Post by **Achtane** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:28 pm

Breaking a mirror
Horseshoes hanged upside-down
The number 4
The number 13
Whistling at night
There are a million animals you're not supposed to kill
Rain on a wedding day

futuresailors · Post by **futuresailors** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:31 pm

skullservant wrote:'4' in Chinese culture

I always thought that one was kinda silly. LOL WE MADE OUR WORDS LOOK THE SAME.

Same thing with in Japan. 4? and DIE! = same thang

skullservant · Post by **skullservant** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:37 pm

FOUR there I SAID IT

jfrey · Post by **jfrey** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:40 pm

Is it crows, ravens, or sparrows that are bad luck? I'm finding conflicting sources.

Side not on what this is for: I had been thinking about this for a while, but I've more or less been convinced recently that I want to get a tattoo. What I would get is a design made up of symbols for bad luck.

sonidero · Post by **sonidero** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:41 pm

Sweeping someones feet
Putting a hat on a bed
Sitting in a wheelchair when you are ok
Wearing the wrong gang colors
Seeing the Bride
Not touching a screw when running a yellow light
Not making the sign of the cross when driving by graveyards
Staring at blind people
Not having black eyed peas on New Years Day
Getting Friday the 13th tattoos
The Ace of Spades

Some of these are probably just Southern things... I know there are more, I can hear old ladies saying "no mijo that's bad luck" but I can't remember them all...

skullservant · Post by **skullservant** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:42 pm

http://cclitgirl.hubpages.com/hub/Poe-the-raven

sonidero · Post by **sonidero** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 1:48 pm

jfrey wrote:Side note on what this is for: I had been thinking about this for a while, but I've more or less been convinced recently that I want to get a tattoo. What I would get is a design made up of symbols for bad luck.

sonidero wrote:Getting Friday the 13th tattoos
The Ace of Spades

hbombgraphics · Post by **hbombgraphics** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:41 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yab9fyO3M14[/youtube]

snipelfritz · Post by **snipelfritz** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:37 pm

greyscales · Post by **greyscales** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:41 pm

space6oy · Post by **space6oy** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:57 pm

isn't there some bad luck thing with digital clocks too, like seeing times like 12:34 or 5:55 and not touching the clock?

re: bad luck tattoos, i have thirteen threes around my left bicep. goofy but it's my favorite number and i have some good luck and some very bad luck...

snipelfritz · Post by **snipelfritz** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:13 pm

I like 11:34 because if you turn it upside down it HELL O'CLOCK!

devnulljp · Post by **devnulljp** » Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:04 pm

Standing your chopsticks up in your bowl of rice (Japan)
Haircut on Wednesday (Thailand, no I don't know why)
9 is also bad luck in Japan (pronounced ku, same as to suffer)
Don't pass food from one set of chopsticks to another -- they do this with cremated bones apparently :idk:

Lots of stupid Irish ones too. According to my grandmother, everything and anything means death

I think it's bad luck to vote for a tory.

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