LUCKY NUMBER 13
If you open a box of donuts and find 13, it is called this
A BAKER'S DOZEN
After knocking this over at the dinner table, you should throw it over your left shoulder to ward off the devil waiting there.
SALT
____ ___ ___, where are you? We got some work to do now. ____ ___ ____ where are you? we need some help from you now. Come on ___ ___ I see you, pretending you got a sliver, but you're not fooling me, cause I can see the way you shake and shiver. You know we got a mystery to solve so ___ ___ be ready for your act.
SCOOBY DOOBY DOO
When you hear the names Ichabod Crane and Headless Horsemen you think of this New York town.
SLEEPY HOLLOW
In 1948 Abbott and Costello would meet Frankenstein. In 1955 Abbott and Costello would meet The Mummy. Neither film featured this actor who originally played the Frankenstein monster and the Mummy, but Bud and Lou would meet him in two other films, Meet the Killer, and Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.
BORIS KARLOFF
This famous event in the Good Book had 13 guests.
Leonardo DaVinci's famous painting also shows 13 guests.
THE LAST SUPPER
Although this superstition most likely came from a practicality of not wanting people to get hurt by falling objects, there are roots of bad luck from it dating back to Egyptian times.
WALKING UNDER A LADDER
I don't want you, but I hate to lose you, you've got me in _____ ___ ___ __ __ __ __ ___. I forgive you, cause I can't forget you, you've got me in ____ ___ ___ __ ___ __ __ ___.
BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA
This city in Arizona has a chilling name, and is a town famous for the sight of The Gunfight at The O.K. Corral, where Wyatt Earp, his brothers Virgil and Morgan, and Doc Holliday fought against criminals known as the Cowboys.
TOMBSTONE
In 1952 Abbott & Costello Meet Captain Kidd was released featuring this actor as Captain Kidd. He has starred as Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Captain Bligh in 'Mutiny on The Bounty' and was married to 'The Bride of Frankenstein' herself Elsa Lanchester.
CHARLES LAUGHTON
Winning two championships, this 7'1" LA Laker wore the number 13, and was famously with many more women than that
WILT CHAMBERLAIN
The Romans believed this number of years was required to complete a full life-cycle of sickness and renewal. So if you did this, it would take this many years to pull yourself out of a death spiral.
BREAK A MIRROR CAUSING 7 YEARS BAD LUCK
I'm wild again, beguiled again, a simpering, whimpering child again, ____, ____, ___ ____ am I.
I couldn't sleep and wouldn't sleep, when love came and told me I shouldn't sleep, ____, ____, ___ ____ am I. I lost my heart but what of it, she is cold I agree, she can laugh but I love it, although the laughs on me
BEWITCHED, BOTHERED, and BEWILDERED
This creature is said to haunt the Pine Barrens in New Jersey. Apparently it went after people in the Pine Barrens, but did not play hockey.
THE JERSEY DEVIL
In 1994 a special came out called 'Abbott & Costello Meet ....' this comedian, who was at the height of his fame on his own sitcom about nothing, showing clips of Bud and Lou's films and talking of how they inspired him.
JERRY SEINFELD
This Ron Howard film starring Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon tells the true story of US astronauts heading to the moon, when a malfunction happens in their ship which causes them to abort and try and get home safely.
APOLLO 13
During the Dark Ages Pope Gregory IX declared this animal to be an incarnation of Satan, and they have been associated with witches and bad luck. But not in Ancient Egypt where they were worshipped.
BLACK CATS
____ ___ ___ __ ___ ___, which old ___ The Wicked _____, ____ ___ ___ Wicked ____ __ ____. Wake up you sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed, wake up the Wicked ____ ___ ___. She's gone where the goblins go, below, below, below, yo-ho let's open up and sing and ring the bells out, ___ ___ the merry oh sing it high, sing it low let them know the Wicked ___ __ ___.
DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD
Massachusetts has this famous town, where in 1693, 19 people were hanged during a time of mass hysteria.
SALEM
In 1951 Abbott and Costello would meet this H.G. Wells character, which included a great boxing scene where the character helps Lou win a boxing match.
THE INVISIBLE MAN
The origin of the bad luck on Friday the 13th dates back to 1307, when this group were arrested in France by King Philip IV for heresy, blasphemy, and idolatry.
THE KNIGHTS OF TEMPLAR
One superstition states Step on this and break your mother's back. It means bad luck will befall someone stepping on this gateway to the underworld.
A CRACK
___ ___ ___ __ __ ___, he was looking for a soul to steal, he was in a bind cause he was way behind and he was willing to make a deal. When he came across this young man sawin' on a fiddle and playin it hot and the ____ jumped up on a hickory stump and said 'Boy let me tell you what.'
THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA
Some of the ghosts that haunt this famous city include The Phantom of Regiment Confederate soldiers, General James Pettigrew, and a sharpshooter named Alexander Gardner.
GETTYSBURG
In 1955 Abbott and Costello would meet this silent film comedy troupe, famous for their wild slapstick comedy chases. The group made their films in California for a studio that got it's name from a Pennsylvania train that passed by during a meeting between Mack Sennett and two other businessmen.
THE KEYSTONE KOPS