Thirteen, lucky for some, silly superstition for others. But many of us have some kind of superstition, a little something perhaps, or a life time of huge limitations … Black cats have suffered at times from people’s fear of what they may cause to happen, and superstition may teach us to be careful around ladders, which isn’t a bad thing, is it?
Letting superstitions rule your life though, is not a good thing. The truth is that coincidences can become confused with cause and result, and actual truth gets thrown away, in place of superstitions – mistaken beliefs.
If you have any thoughts about superstitions, why not write about them poetically, because on this thirteenth day of February, SUPERSTITION is the word of the day. And if you see a four leaf clover in the lawn today, you’ve obviously been on the grass!
I have some horseshoes around the place outside, one hanging on a fence, but I don’t hold to the idea these discarded rusted items will bring any particular ‘good luck’. And if someone around me sneezes, I may well say ‘Bless you’, even though I don’t believe I’m preventing the devil from stealing that person’s soul.
I’m a realist, in the main, and can be cynical, but try not to be in a bad way. I like to think on it as being careful about the truth of things. So, superstitions are things we might inherit, simply because of the society we live in, or they may come to us through trying to make sense of our life experience.
They idea of ‘Superstition’ certainly has attracted the attention of songwriters and musicians over the years. From Stevie Wonder back in the seventies, to more modern times, superstition is a common theme in the songs we hear.
Finding the reason why things happen is such a human thing to do. Do Owls have any thoughts about full moons, or do they just get on with their normal night time things, but with more light? Who knows, not I, that’s for sure.
It’s time to drag out your superstitions, dust them off, and get writing!
Carolyn Cordon - Creative 
what a fabulous post — love those cheeky four-leaf clovers — and fabulous prompt. You’ve certainly got me thinking. Will let you know if I come up with something 🙂 the thought of that owl contemplating the full moon is itching my cerebrals 🙂
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Oh, watch out you don’t damage your cerebrals by scratching bits off John! I love owls, and am enormously proud to have been twice visited by these majestic creatures … Two different kinds of owls, the first that unwisely stayed out too late one night, and stopped sitting on a sheltered fence all day, before disappearing at night. The other, ore recent one sought shelter in our doorless shed, and stayed there for a few weeks, an awesome piece of excitement to me, and a worrying time for some of the smaller native birds that live in and around our place …
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I’m enjoying putting together the writing prompts, tomorrow, Valentines Day, I promise there will be no schmaltzy kiss kiss silliness!
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Lol 🙂 now there’s a topic for your next poem, Carolyn
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A humorous poem about someone scratching off their cerebrals!? Wise owls watching, someone scratching … I’m getting hints of a poem in near rhyme here … I’ll work on it, and see if I can get some superstition into it too! I don’t have that many humorous poems in my collection-to-be yet, but I am a humorous kind of person, so a funny owl poem might be just the thing!
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try to work those cerebrals in there too, if you can 🙂
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The first draft of the poem is done, I rhymed cerebrals wtih meals, and got in mention of owl, a creature with many superstitions about them. It’s humorous but a little grisly. Quite grisly, actually …
Fun though!
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I have to admit, although not at all superstitious, I do like the idea of superstition, particularly in writing. One of the strangest ones I’ve ever heard is that it’s bad luck to put new shoes on the table. Where that originates I’m not sure!
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It makes more sense that putting old shoes on the table, but not a lot more sense. Sometimes these things have some sort of sense, other times, they seem stupidly ignorant, or totally irrelevant …
You probably had to be there at the time, for some of them, and we were a long way from being born, back when many superstitions came into being …
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