orpheus last chant

i don't know if this was discussed ever before, hope not.
but i confess that even as the rational person that i have become i still can't brake some irrational behavior like superstition. it is strange, but in my country seeing a priest is bad luck...a lot of bad luck...yet the stuff people believe here...
let me tell you a common example...there is a supposedly all known fact that if you go at night at exactly 12, naked (i'm not kidding) and holding a candle (flashlights not allowed) and look in the mirror, besides seeing the scared and nude version fo yourself you will see your future husband or wife ....
ok stupid superstition till now...but wait
if you are not going to get married, you will see the face of satan and go nuts....
now i can rationaly say this is all .....wel....crap
i was gonna dare myself to do it to prove myself a normal thinking non superstitious person.....
but i got scared...
:banghead: but i will.....darn it!

Born Free

Hello

The mirror thing you mentioned is a variation of one we heard as kids in the 70's. Our version though was that you had to stand in the mirror and say the hail mary backwards and the devil was supposedly to appear and you would go insane.

Needless to say we all tried it in the school toilets making sure there was a lot of us there and apart from from the odd psychotic episode I've been fine and the devil didn't appear because let's just say he would need to exist first!!!

I can appreciate and understand your fears but they are only that - fears and superstitious fears at that. I know because I still occaisonally feel the old urge to cancel the curse of the magpie but I'm getting over it.

Try not to think about them oh and welcome to the infidels.

Stephen Maturin

This one is entirely bass-ackwards. In truth, seeing Satan and going insane is what happens when you do get married.

wildernesse

No, no, no. You stand in a darkened room and say "Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary" and then turn around in a circle and look in the mirror and you'll see Bloody Mary looking out at you. I think Bloody Mary is supposed to have been a horribly murdered girl in this case, and you could see her mutilated self in the mirror.

Probably a nice adaptation of your version, alli, for some kids who didn't know what Catholics were and couldn't tell you the Hail Mary frontwards or backwards.

Let me say that I never did this as a child, because it was dabbling in the occult to summon spirits of dead people. I was a very good girl always.

--tibac

Born Free

Isn't that fascinating this superstition has obviously been passed down the generations and has different twists depending on which country you live in!!!


PS It was definetely hail mary backwards

Sassenach

Candy Man, Candy Man...

Never said. NEVER will.

Monkeybot

I've heard a zillion variations on the Bloody Mary thing... never tried it though. There was a similar thing with Candyman too IIRC.

The one superstition I can't keep myself from doing is knocking on wood... I guess the feeling of tempting fate is too uncomfortable to ignore!

Born Free

It's Touch wood or even Touch hairy wood

Incidentally I don't know this Candyman one at all, anyone care to elaborate???

Sassenach

Candy Man is a movie from the early '90s.

Say 'Candy Man' three (or was it 5?) times while looking in a mirror and he comes and and does nasty things.

mecca777

It's a variant of the Hail Bloody Mary thing from a fairly average horror movie, called (of course) Candyman. People stand in front of mirrors, say the name five times, the resurrected spectre of a murdered African-American slave comes through the mirror and wreaks bloody vengeance, and so on.

Anybody else find that they were too scared to touch a Rubik's Cube ever again after seeing Hellraiser? No? Just me? I'll get me coat.