Everybody has superstitions. Unfounded yet dogmatic beliefs are laced throughout the fabric of our culture.

Sailors in history believed it was bad luck to have flowers onboard a ship because they could later be used in a funeral arrangement. Many actors believe that whistling in a theater is bad mojo, stemming from the fact that whistling was traditionally the preferred method of communication among stage hands. An old military superstition warns that it’s unlucky to light three cigarettes with a single match, believed by some to have originated from the notion that such a match had a greater chance of being spotted in the dark by the enemy. Old school Italians feel the number 17 is cursed because the Roman numerals can be rearranged to spell vixi, which in Latin means I have lived.

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