Superstition means thinking one thing causes another without proof. Sometimes, it's tied to religion, like omens and prophecies, which don't follow science.

In Turkey, it's believed that if you chew gum at night, it turns into the flesh of the dead! So, many people avoid gum after dark to avoid this spooky transformation.

Horseshoes have seven holes, which are seen as lucky and can protect from spirits.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th, a word combining "Friday" (paraskeví) and "thirteen" (dekatreís) from Greek.

A special cheese aged nine months, eaten during "groaning time" to celebrate a baby's birth. Passing babies through cheese for a blessed life.

A superstition from a novel where opal jewelry changed color when touched by holy water.

Ringing bells when someone dies to ask for prayers and scare away evil spirits, beginning with Queen Elizabeth I.

Bird poop brings good luck, and more poop means more money.

People from ancient Greece to today fear the evil eye, thinking it brings bad luck or harm.

This Victorian tradition involves four gifts: old for continuity, new for hope, borrowed for happiness, and blue for purity.

This superstition started in the Middle Ages, based on the unfounded belief that single women with many cats were witches and could become cats themselves.

Soldiers believed that, by the time a third cigarette was lit from one match, a sniper would have had time to target a soldier in his sight and make the kill.

When a person leans a ladder against the wall, it forms a triangle shape. Walking through the triangle is seen as scattering the Trinity.

Mariners believed that a woman on board a ship at sea would anger the sea gods, inviting horrible weather and rough water.

The superstition is explained by this famous phrase: "One’s bad - Two’s luck - Three’s health - Four’s wealth - Five’s sickness - Six is death.”

To prevent the bad luck from settling on the person who spilled the salt spiller, they must toss some salt over their left shoulder. This needs to be done immediately!

According to this superstition, most people must be soulless since the majority of people have looked into a mirror at some point in their lives.

During Christian persecution, believers overtly crossed their fingers to identify other followers. Nowadays, it's mainly used to excuse the telling of white lies.

This superstition involves the Hawaiian volcano god, Pele. Those who take the stones say they are cursed with misery and ill fortune. They often send the rocks back!

When photography first arrived on the scene in the early 19th century, people worldwide believed that taking someone’s picture was equivalent to taking their soul.

Those who suffer from this superstition have an official diagnosis - triskaidekaphobia. The term is from the Greek.

This superstition may have begun with Europeans who believed that the gods would occasionally look down at the earth when they moved the sky - and sometimes a star would escape and fall.

According to superstition, if you open an umbrella indoors, you ask for bad luck to “rain on you.”

This superstition works like this - you open a letter, find a promise, and often a threat. This letter promises you love, money, luck, or other reward, then asks you to pass it on to your friends.

The superstition states that you cannot sweep dirt out of a new residence with a new broom unless you first sweep something from the outside.

According to superstition, the rabbit’s luck could be transferred by taking the rabbit's left hind foot that was shot or captured in a cemetery during a full moon.

This superstition goes back to the Old Testament. In the Book of Revelation, the number of the beast is 666. It is often interpreted as the mark of Satan and a sign of the end times.

This superstition has roots in first-century Rome. People fought over dried wishbones, which they believed were good luck and would accidentally break them.

According to superstition, breaking a mirror is a surefire way to get seven years of bad luck. This fear might stem from believing that a mirror holds bits of a person's soul.

This custom comes from an old belief that good spirits lived in trees—a person called on the spirits by knocking on something wooden for protection.