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[h8tickerbug]

This is something that's been sitting in the back of my head for a while, so I thought I might as well ask

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[deadly_garden]

One of the most common here refers to the number of times you sneeze. Once if someone is talking kindly about you, twice if they're talking rudely. There's also a variant that doesn't refer to the manner they're speaking in, just that they are.

I believe it's similar to how Westerners sometimes believe someone is speaking about you when your ears are burning.

[h8tickerbug]

I've heard of that one. I heard that it means the same thing when your ears ring.

If its the right one, it means its good. If its the left, its bad.

The sneeze one I haven't heard. Though I do know if you sneeze three times in a row, you're supposed to make a wish.

[deadly_garden]

Really? Here when you sneeze three times it's considered a sign you're getting a cold.

I see you've been told that the number four is unlucky. It's the same here, although we consider the number eight to be a very lucky number.

[h8tickerbug]

Well, that does make sense.

That's such an odd number to be considered unlucky.

[toxiccrown]

I've heard one saying you could prevent leg cramps by sleeping with a bar of soap between the sheets. And something about rainbows I can never remember.

[h8tickerbug]

I can honestly say that I've never heard of that one before.

There's lots of stuff about rainbows, I'm sure.

[toxiccrown]

I'm pretty sure that's one of the ones that was a result of boredom and nothing else.

I wouldn't be surprised. Probably a lot about weather in general.

[h8tickerbug]

I'd believe that.

I know they say that if its raining while the sun is out, then it'll rain all day.

[devil_forge]

Seeing one crow is bad, but two bring luck. Three crows bring health, and four means wealth. Five crows bring sickness and six bring death.

There is also one that I have heard about cats being able to steal the air from a sleeping infant.

[h8tickerbug]

I think its eight or seven means that there's a witch near by.

Oh, there are always ones about cats. Poor things, and they make such good pets.

[devil_forge]

Which is might not be bad, considering not all witches have dark intentions.

I agree. Tis a reputation they do not deserve.

[h8tickerbug]

That's right.

I have enough to prove that they make good pets.

I don't think we've met before. I'm Sally Owens.

[wildcat_hs_girl]

Osaka seems to think that perfectly splitting a pair of chopsticks is some kind of good luck charm. I have a feeling she just made that up herself though...

[h8tickerbug]

I don't think I've heard of that one before. But it does sound kind of hard to do.

[wildcat_hs_girl]

It took Osaka a good few weeks to master doing it herself.

Then again, that's Osaka for you.

[h8tickerbug]

I don't think I know Osaka, but that does sound like a talent.

I know if you hit your elbow and don't rub it, its good luck. And in Japan if you see a bat at your home, its supposed to bring good luck, also.

[3_day_visitor]

I once visited a country which believed the world would end on a certain day, if that counts.

[h8tickerbug]

My world has that too.

The Aztec's had a calender that said when the last day on Earth would be.

I guess that one counts. Yeah.