<human>: Hey lads and ladies, growing up, I learned about knocking on wood from my dad, and I've done it ever since, except that I kind of evolved it on my own, and now I snap my fingers three times when I don't want something bad to happen! ***What sort of weird things do you guys do?*** If you can, post your country/region and general age. I'm curious to see where these things come from!

I'm actually really interested in this topic, and on a kind of side note, I focused on superstition for my senior thesis (and before you ask, I was a design major, so this has no scientific basis whatsoever). As part of it, I wrote and designed a book about superstition, and as part of *that*, I sent out a questionnaire to all my friends, family, fellow students, blog followers, etc. If you're interested, I'm going to take a second whack at this, and I would love for some more respondents. (Is this a rule violation? Sorry if it is). The questionnaire is [here] (it's a Google form). If you would like to see some of the spreads from the book, it's [here](

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<bot>: I studied superstition for my thesis and my curiosity is infinite, now what sort of whacky stuff do you do to keep yourself lucky?