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Good Luck
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facts about Elizabethan
Less Common Superstitions
Mish Mash
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What object will bring you good luck if you find it on the ground "heads up"?
a penny
100
If this animal crosses your path, it's a sign of bad luck.
a black cat
100
what era was the Elizabethan Period?
Era - 1558-1603
100
Two people are to pull this apart from a dried breastbone of a chicken or turkey and the one who is left with the longer end will have their wish come true.
wishbone
100
What should you knock on for good luck?
wood
200
What can you find in the grass that could bring you good luck?
4-leaf clover
200
Walking under this is a bad omen.
a ladder
200
define superstitions?
Worry and fear of what was coming and what was going to happen. They were based on religion
200
Eat this fruit on Christmas Eve for good health the next year.
an apple
200
If you see this at night, you will have good luck.
a shooting star
300
What should you throw over your shoulder to end your back luck from spilling it?
salt
300
Opening this object inside will bring bad luck.
an umbrella
300
define omen?
They were believed as a good or bad event
300
If this animal looks in your window or if you see one in the daylight, bad luck and death will bestow you.
an owl
300
This superstition states that the number of this object that a bride-to-be breaks as she opens her bridal shower gifts will equal the number of children she will have.
ribbon
400
What should you do on your birthday to give you everything you wished for?
Blow out all of the candles on your birthday cake in one breath
400
How many years of bad luck could you have for breaking a mirror?
seven
400
Why do people believe that witches exist?
Most witches were single or widowed and had no husband to explain any accusations Witches were able to fly and make potions and train animals and consider them her own Witches were believed to live in the woods.
400
If you place this article of clothin on your bed, you will have bad luck.
a hat
400
You should not put this in a high rise building.
13th floor
500
People practice this superstition when someone talks about their good fortune?
People once believed that spirits of gods lived in trees. So, when we talk about our good fortune, we knock on wood three times to ask the spirit inside the wood to protect our luck and not to punish us for praising ourselves.
500
Hang this over your door to avoid bad luck.
a horseshoe
500
What other significant events were taking place during the Elizabethan era ?
There were significant events that also were taking place in this era, english literature, the british empire was expanding in new lands.
500
This superstition states that you should not kill this type of bird or you will have bad luck.
sparrow
500
Eat this on New Year's Day for good luck!
Pork and/or black-eyed peas