Are you superstitious?

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After discussing about weding rings and some people never taking them off it struck me about superstitions? Are you superstitious at all? Each country will have their own versions - but I think I can honestly say I am not superstitious about anything. Take black cats - some say to have one walk in front is bad luck - while others say it is good luck - so work that out! personally I have had three black cats and I don't think they affected my luck one way or the other. Walking under a ladder? Not bad luck at all - unless someone happens to be on it with a tin of paint or a hammer that could drop on you. Odd one this - I had a visitor who wouldn't leave through a different door from the one they came through - never heard of that one before. What about shoes on a table? Seems to stem form when dead people were laid out on the household table - but how can it bring bad luck? The same goes for opening an umbrella indoors - so what! Friday 13th - its just another day. Touching wood? Its just a common saying - but doesn't mean you have to do it - if you can find any! Something to do with wood from Jesus's cross I believe and the time when people believed in relic. What about wearing green being bad luck - something to do with offending the fairies. It amazes me that some people can still believe this fairy tale stuff. I like finding our about the origins form a historical point of view - but to actually live your life by them...? I can understand how they came about - when like and its workings were a mystery to ordinary people and they sought to explain the inexplicable. But now in these days of general enlightenment its odd to see that people still hold on to these beliefs. I've heard recently about people not liking birds on wallpaper, or finding peacock feathers unlucky in the house, or a robin flying into a house signifying death - personally I think its all hogwash! Magpies - 1 for sorrow - well only for the poor bird if he's lonely. Its just like as children we tried to walk along the pavement avoiding the cracks - but that was just for fun - not to ward off ill omens or evil spirits.