SilverSurfer 12:02 Sat Jan 24
East End Superstitions
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Never pick up cutlery that you have dropped.
Giving pearls, even mother of pearl is bad luck as it is tears./
No new shoes on a table.......................
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Crassus
12:16 Sat Jan 24
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If you provide a bag as a gift, put money in it
If you must have elephant statues in a room they must face the door
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SilverSurfer
12:19 Sat Jan 24
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Crassus
If you provide a bag as a gift, put money in it
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same as wallets and purses I seem to remember.
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Westham67
12:20 Sat Jan 24
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I'm a 'no shoes on the table man"
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easthammer
12:26 Sat Jan 24
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Throw spilt salt over left shoulder
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Crassus
12:29 Sat Jan 24
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SS
yes correct, you reminded me
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WHOicidal Maniac
12:32 Sat Jan 24
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Salt over the shoulder and boots on the table aint anything to do with the East End.
Both come from Jewish traditions, so any where they settled, that tradition followed.
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gph
12:38 Sat Jan 24
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Carlton Cole will eventually score a hatrick and we will eventually will at Anfield are the only ones I subscribe to
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Crassus
12:47 Sat Jan 24
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WHOicidal Maniac 12:32 Sat Jan 24
Well there is a thing, Jews have nothing to do with the East End and it's tradition, who would have thunk it
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MikeHammer
12:47 Sat Jan 24
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Not aware of any superstitions linked solely to such a small area as the East End
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WHOicidal Maniac
12:51 Sat Jan 24
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Crassus 12:47 Sat Jan 24
I didnt say Jews had nothing to do with the East End...
...I did say the Jewish Traditions have nothing to do with the East End
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JohnnyL
12:56 Sat Jan 24
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Why the interest I the East End and not East London where our club is. How do you decide on a East End only Superstition?
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clarky
1:00 Sat Jan 24
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My old Nan said if your boots squeaked, you nicked 'em.....Or you were going to hang, I forget!
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Crassus
1:00 Sat Jan 24
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OK mate
Point noted, not understood but noted.
Where my old Nan, of English/Irish extract fits in with that I dont know - she was mad for the old Yiddish traditions by the sound of it.
Not suggesting these superstitions originated there but they certainly took root, akin to having a beer and a Ruby.
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JohnnyL
1:09 Sat Jan 24
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Did these superstitions not go 'over the water' ... Cross the river ? I think it wrong to say they were East End only ....the only East End only superstition would surely be that you need to travel home with someone while Jack the Ripper was on the loose!
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stomper
1:32 Sat Jan 24
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Who the fuck would put shoes on the table?
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HairyHammer
2:20 Sat Jan 24
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Never spit at a villain and never grass on a dodgy doughnut .
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gph
2:58 Sat Jan 24
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It may have started with the Jews, but salt been special to Christians for ages.
Up until Vatican II (1962), Holy Salt was indispensable for the manufacture of Holy Water - now priest-blessed salt is an optional ingredient.
CofE Holy Water still contains it, I think.
Almighty and everlasting God, you have created salt for the use of man, we ask you to bless this salt and grant that wherever it is sprinkled and whatever is touched by it may be set free from all impurity and the attacks of Satan; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
are/were the CofE magic words for it.
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stevo
4:23 Sat Jan 24
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I aways understood that you throw spilt salt over your left shoulder to "blind the devil" who supposedly sits there whilst god sits on your right shoulder.
also it was don't put new shoes on the table
Dont wash on new years day or you will wash someone out of the family
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Joke Whole
5:59 Sat Jan 24
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Not sure those superstitions mentioned are East End, east London or even English: I've heard my mother often use them all as I was growing up and she hails from the (far) north of Scotland.
They may well have a common (imported) route though, given the peoples that have come and gone to make up what is now Great Britain.
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PistonHammered
6:33 Sat Jan 24
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There's something about leaving the lid off of a pot of brewing tea.
Strangers going to visit or some bollocks.
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