However logical of a person someone may be, one way or another, they would somehow believe in a certain superstition. A superstition is a belief that something causes another event, usually good fortune or bad luck, even though they are not directly connected to each other.
As what Richard Wiseman, a professor from University of Hertfordshite on Public Understanding of Psychology said: 'People can create luck and good fortune by changing their outlook on life, focusing on grabbing opportunities and creating positive expectations...People also create their own superstitions and rituals in the belief it will change their fortunes...It is possible through neural programming to think yourself lucky.'
This article will focus on the top 5 British superstitions associated with bad luck. They are enumerated as follows:
1. It is bad luck to walk under a ladder and research reveals that over 10 million Britons will not walk below ladders under any circumstances. This superstition is not only about having a bucket of paint fall over someone's head. It originated from the old days when people would go under the ladder first before they are hanged publicly for their crimes.
2. Breaking a mirror will cause 7 years of bad luck and research reveals that 9 million people believe this to be true.
3. Do not open an umbrella inside the house or indoors for it will cause great misfortune. Back then, it was forbidden to open an umbrella for there's a tendency that it can accidentally injure someone nearby. There's also the superstitious joke that it's usually sunny if you decide to bring an umbrella and it would rain for certain if you would not bring otherwise.
4. Placing shoes on the table will cause doom on your own luck or worse, death. This has its origins from the coal miners in North England during the 19th century. When a miner died of an accident, his shoes would be placed on the table.
5. Friday the thirteen is quite peculiar for although it was considered the most unlucky number, it also came out as second luckiest.
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