If someone has a legal middle name and you dont know it then you cant curse them.
This led to mass cat genocide wherein not only black ones were being murdered in masses.
4.Dressing up at Halloween was to ward off ghouls by outsmarting them.
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6.The use of wind chimes.
A lot of people forget that they were once a ward against evil spirits.
7.Covering your mouth when you yawn.
It was originally thought the devil would sneak in if you didnt.
9.Making noise at midnight on New Years Eve to scare away the evil spirits.
10.Blowing out birthday candles.
11.Pretty sure death will come to me if I ever open an umbrella indoors.
13.Not speaking ill of the dead.
Theyre not coming back to haunt you.
14.Clinking glasses and saying cheers before you take a sip of your drink.
15.Churchbells at a funeral are actually to ward off evil spirits whod take the deceaseds soul to hell.
16.666 is the devils number or that the pentacle and pentagrams are going to summon demons.
Christianity is so seeped in Western cultures that we take basic things and turn them into fearful superstitions.
17.The purpose of bridesmaids was to confuse and protect the bride from being snatched by the fae?
Snatched by something anyway.
18.Bad luck comes in threes.
I usually see this in the context of celebrity deaths.
20.Nurses will murder people who say a shift is qui_t.
We arent allowed to say the q word.
22.I know a couple of Japanese ones.
The more well-known is that the number 4 is a bit unlucky because it sounds like death.
Youre supposed to cover your thumbs from passing funeral cars.
Thats to confuse demons.
25.Kissing on New Year thought to purify each other of evil for the new year.
26.Holding your breath when driving by a cemetery.
27.Walking under a ladder.
Suppose there are a couple of reasons not to do that.
28.Not sitting thirteen at one table; not having a thirteenth floor on an office building.
30.Knocking on wood to confirm we dont jinx anything.
