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The action of crossing your fingers is to attract good luck. This superstition arrived to Latin America on Spanish galleons which often carried prisoners forcefully turned into sailors.

These men would cross their fingers as a way to silently signal danger to each other.

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This expression asks us to knock on wood so that bad luck does not approach us. However, one must never touch an object which has wooden legs.
These superstitions both refer back to the sign of the holy cross which was made out of wood (good) and was staked into the ground (bad).
As with so many others, the superstition was brough to the new world by sailors who by all accounts were superstitous people, placing their fates at risk as they sailed into the unknown.

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You must always avoid walking under a ladder, as freestanding ladders or those supported against a wall form triangular shapes and it's this that the superstition particularly tries to avoid.
The belief comes from Egypt and was brought to Spain by Phoenicians, the Spanish then bringing it to the New World.
If one walks under a ladder inadvertently, in order to counteract the run of bad luck that will surely come of it, one should spit three times over the stairs of the ladder. It is even better if this is done in the presence of a dog.

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"And avoid thirteen and the black cat"
The number thirteen is considered bad luck because during his last supper, Jesus was surrounded by 12 apostles, of which one - Judas - was a traitor.
Thus the 13th member of the last supper - number 13 - became associated with bad luck. Black cats are an omen of bad luck, dating back to ancient Egypt, where cats were sacred but black cats were a representation of evil.
Both of these superstitions were spread to the new world by Spanish and Portuguese sailors.

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A Spanish-word for the left side is 'siniestra', which is also a synonym for 'evil' and the root of the English word 'sinister'.
Getting out of bed on the wrong side means you have gotten out of bed on the 'sinister side' and so will have a day of bad luck.
The superstition has been spread by immigrants into the US who came from English- and Spanish- speaking countries.

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Astrolgers often recommend that you keep a rabbit's foot wrapped in your astral letter in your pocket. In pre-Christian times, European peoples considered rabbits to be representatives of the bounty of nature and to be animals which lived in harmony with nature.
This connotation has survived thousands of years, coming to the south america with the conquistadors.

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In more extreme circumstances, breaking a mirror is believed to be a precursor er of death, since the person's image is broken into pieces.
A better known mythology says that if a mirror is broken, you will have at least 7 years of bad luck. Since the number seven is considered to be a bad number in Judeo-Christian traditions (7 deadly sins, 7 plagues of Egypt, etc) it is an appropriate use of the number 7.
To counter the bad luck, if you break a mirror, you must wrap the shards in silvery paper, tie it with seven knots on each side and throw it away as far away from you as possible.

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Salt was a valuable and desired product in ancient Greek and Roman times, even reaching the status of currency.
The preservation of food, such as fish and meat, depended on salt and so it was important to have it. When we spill salt, it is a threat to our sense of abundancy.
The tradition has survived to this day, spreading out from the Mediterranean throughout the West.

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"Watch over the zodiac sign and your biorhythms, try not to dress in yellow"
Dating back to the earliest days of Christianity when hell was described as a sulfurous pit, the devout have often believed that wearing the color of sulfur - yellow - can be an invitation for the devil to pay a visit.

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"Stepping on crap brings good luck."
Using the same good sense as we have today, people in ancient times tried not to step in excrement.
But if they did it, it was believed that the chance occurrence could be a sign that good fortune was in the air.

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