The One Question Meme

[sacrilicious13]

Snagged from deadflowerss and starsouls1013

If you want to take part, reply to this entry. I will poke around in your list of interests on your profile and ask you one question about one of them. You wax rhapsodic on the subject of your interest for the edification of all and we'll learn something keen about you. Then you post these instructions in your own journal.

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[sacrilicious.livejournal.com]

Here. :-)

[ghoulchick.livejournal.com]

Okay, I was trying to figure out the right answer to this, and I got stuck, and then I forgot to think about it. ;) My biggest superstition, in terms of what I always observe no matter what, is probably throwing spilled salt over my left shoulder. I don't literally believe it's blinding the devil or whatever, but... I can't not do it. I feel wrong if I try not to. So it might fall more under OCD than superstition. :P

I knock on wood, too. I wish on the first star I see at night. I throw pennies into fountains. I wish on birthday candles before blowing them out. (I'm very hopeful in my superstitions, I guess.) I do *not* fret over black cats, going under ladders, umbrellas opened indoors (how else can I dry it out?), broken mirrors.

Speaking of mirrors, though, I get very freaked out about going in front of a mirror in the dark. Not specifically a superstition, just a general freakiness.

Oh! This one will never come up in my life, but I am extremely superstitious about renaming boats. I would never do it, and if I had to, I would have to have some sort of ceremony for it. I just have a real sense of dread and wrongness over boat renaming. (My folks sailed a lot when I was a kid, so maybe I picked it up from them. Somehow I've internalized the idea that you just don't fuck around with boat superstitions. Not that I literally believe any of these, but... there it is.)

[sacrilicious.livejournal.com]

Oh I am right there with you on the mirror thing. I can walk into a dark room, but I HAVE to turn the light on in the bathroom because seeing half visiable reflections in the giant mirror creeps me out.