Do you fear breaking a mirror will give you seven years bad luck? Or believe that Friday the thirteenth is an unlucky day? If so, you are superstitious and tend not to chance fate (no, really this is not another shoddy horoscope). If not, you are like many people in the modern world who simply laugh at the old wives tales which captivate countless people of the older generations such as my grandparents. I would also say that their superstitious ways are rubbing off on to me as I am very vigilant in my day-to-day life.
The earliest memory I have of my grandparents is from when I was five and walking down Sauchiehall Street. My grandad, holding my hand tightly as the pavement was packed with people suddenly took a wide berth and started walking …show more content…
A few months ago while on holiday in Tenerife my gran was rummaging though the stands at the front of the shop and her face lit up when she seen a pen with four leaf clovers on it. She took this to be a sign of luck so bought it and stuck it in the "safe compartment" of her handbag which never has anything in it you 'd want to keep safe; Werthers Original wrappers, a broken keyring and now, a "lucky" pen. A few days later, lying by the pool my auntie needed a pen to do a crossword so my gran let her use the sacred pen which caused a lot of amusement as the pen was actually bedecked with cannabis leafs not lucky clovers. Still, it did evidently show that my gran would do anything for luck. Other family members, particularly my parents are sceptical about superstitions and generally say that they are just "old wives tales" that have no truth to them but that doesn 't stop my mum saluting magpies or not cutting nails on Fridays or Sunday 's, my grandparents influence rubbed off onto my mum and is now rubbing off onto …show more content…
or I at least know they are not going insane. They now have a fruit bowl filled with apples because apparently "an apple a day keeps the doctor away". I asked them why they take the old wives tales so seriously and they told me that their parents did and the more you hear the superstitions the more you believe them. This is certainly true in my case having spent a lot of time with my grandparents, I have picked up some of their habits. However a family friend of the same age does not believe in superstitions as much as my grandparents do and she 's still fit and healthy, showing that some of the old wives tales make for interesting reading but that 's about all, otherwise you 're just chucking salt on the floor hoping for good
The earliest memory I have of my grandparents is from when I was five and walking down Sauchiehall Street. My grandad, holding my hand tightly as the pavement was packed with people suddenly took a wide berth and started walking …show more content…
A few months ago while on holiday in Tenerife my gran was rummaging though the stands at the front of the shop and her face lit up when she seen a pen with four leaf clovers on it. She took this to be a sign of luck so bought it and stuck it in the "safe compartment" of her handbag which never has anything in it you 'd want to keep safe; Werthers Original wrappers, a broken keyring and now, a "lucky" pen. A few days later, lying by the pool my auntie needed a pen to do a crossword so my gran let her use the sacred pen which caused a lot of amusement as the pen was actually bedecked with cannabis leafs not lucky clovers. Still, it did evidently show that my gran would do anything for luck. Other family members, particularly my parents are sceptical about superstitions and generally say that they are just "old wives tales" that have no truth to them but that doesn 't stop my mum saluting magpies or not cutting nails on Fridays or Sunday 's, my grandparents influence rubbed off onto my mum and is now rubbing off onto …show more content…
or I at least know they are not going insane. They now have a fruit bowl filled with apples because apparently "an apple a day keeps the doctor away". I asked them why they take the old wives tales so seriously and they told me that their parents did and the more you hear the superstitions the more you believe them. This is certainly true in my case having spent a lot of time with my grandparents, I have picked up some of their habits. However a family friend of the same age does not believe in superstitions as much as my grandparents do and she 's still fit and healthy, showing that some of the old wives tales make for interesting reading but that 's about all, otherwise you 're just chucking salt on the floor hoping for good