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35 Funny And Embarrassing Superstitions People Still Believe In, Shared For Jimmy Fallon’s New Challenge
When Jimmy Fallon yells “It’s Hashtag time!” you know you won’t be bored. This time, the beloved host of The Tonight Show asked people to share their funny and weird superstitions and tag it with #MyWeirdSuperstition. Within minutes, the hashtag was trending on Twitter and you can totally see why.
From eating M&Ms in pairs only to always setting the volume on an even number, no matter if up or down, these are some of the weirdly particular behaviors we all have but don’t really tell anyone.
So let’s see what people shared right below, and don’t forget to add your own superstition in the comment section below! And after you're done reading this one, be sure to check our earlier Jimmy Fallon hashtags, #ThatWasCold, #WeddingFail, #TextFail, and #FitnessFail.
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Bored Panda reached out to one of the top authors of Fallon’s #MyWeirdSuperstition challenge who said her superstition was eating M&Ms in pairs and by color. “First orange, then red, brown, yellow, green, and end with blue. If there isn't an even number, I make a group of 7. I don't know why, but I've always done this,” K. Hellams from Gastonia, NC tweeted.
Hellams told us that she does indeed call herself a superstitious person, “but only with certain superstitions,” and added: “For example, if I am talking about something that hasn't happened to me, I knock on wood afterward.”
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Jo Johannsen 4 years ago
That's not superstition - anything outside the borders of the bed IS fair game.
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Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
I used to do this until I realized my steak was better when it wasn't cold yet
When asked about her viral M&M superstition, the author told us about its story of origin. “My superstition with the M&Ms started at a football game when I was maybe 5 or 6. I don't recall why it started, but my team won! Now, I firmly believe that it brings me good luck and keeps me balanced in a way.”
At this point, Hellams admits her superstition is somewhat hard to describe but “it has become almost a ritual.” When asked about her tweet being selected for The Tonight Show, she confessed that “I was hoping my tweet would make it onto Jimmy's show, but being in the favorites is amazing!”
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JESSE REED 4 years ago
This is not superstition. Lightning can travel through plumbing. Wouldn't be the first time.
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Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
Oddly, every day I happen to look at the clock at exactly 12:34. I see it every day.
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Mary Hiers 4 years ago
When I was 10 I went to the beach with a friend and her family. She had the superstition that you hold your breath going over a bridge or through a tunnel. We rapidly expanded the superstition to include "when passing cemeteries" and a bunch of other random stuff. Eventually, her increasingly annoyed dad told us we had to hold our breath every time we saw a tree (we were traveling through the mountains of western North Carolina).
A whopping 25% of the people in the US actively avoid anything from the number 13 to black cats, breaking mirrors, or walking under ladders as they consider themselves superstitious. One survey has even indicated that 13% of people would be bothered by staying on the 13th floor of a hotel and 9% said they would ask for a different room. This may explain why so few buildings have a 13th floor.
Incredibly, some renowned airlines like Air France and Lufthansa do not even have a 13th row. On top of that, Lufthansa also doesn’t have a 17th row, since in some countries, like Brazil and Italy, the unlucky number is 17, and not 13.
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MERCI LANGSTON 4 years ago
I used to so do the same and if I felt like I showed too much attention to one then I had to have one on ones with all of them.
So what are the reasons behind so many superstitions out there, even the ones that don’t make that much sense? Well, Don Saucier, associate professor of psychology, suggests that superstitions are the behaviors with which people attempt to affect or control their future.
"People believe in superstitions to try to restore some prediction and control to their world," Saucier said. "Not knowing what will happen to them is discomforting, and performing superstitious behavior can make people feel a little better about the future."
But this is not something new. In fact, superstitions may go back as long as mankind has existed, as scientists believe that some religious and spiritual beliefs, as well as amulets, totems, and charms that were used to ward off evil, were all part of the superstitious behaviors our ancestors followed.
However, on the contrary to today’s concept of superstition, the sacrifices observed in past civilizations may have been performed to intentionally receive good luck.
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Holly Stevens 4 years ago
I never look ahead on a calender so the picture for the months is a "surprise" if I have to write something for the next month I just slide the page up so I can't peek
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LesAnimaux 4 years ago
This is probably related to "if I keep my feet under the covers, monsters won't be able to grab me"
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Monday 4 years ago
One compulsion or delusion does not equal OCD. You need it to spread to multiple areas of your life before it becomes a disorder rather than one odd behavior.
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Joanne the shark 4 years ago
That would be OCD behavior but it doesn’t necessarily mean they have OCD
M Kate McCulloch 3 years ago (edited)
That is OCD... Say out loud to yourself when you checked the locks. "I have checked the lock on the _____ door and it is secure." And stand there for a moment until you feel that yes, this is secure. Then, after a short while, switch up the order you check the doors. Then, later, you may be able to find peace. I have to stop myself from counting - but at the point where I just go, "Oh, I'm counting..." and I can stop.
that rando_;) 4 years ago
My sister does this, but she does it at like 11:30 when everyone else is upstairs, so the lights are off, and she's afraid of the dark, so she makes me get out of bed to come to watch her lock the doors.
Lyn Moffett 4 years ago
I have been known to check my doors and windows several times at night even though I know they are locked I still feel compelled to check. More so when I have my grandchildren to stay!!
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Bobert Robertson 4 years ago
I just kiss the floor with my gas pedal to ensure I'm through while it's yellow haha
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Serenity Kinney 4 years ago
IDK who the guy/girl with the userer name of (wait there is no name its just a square) but whoever you are, stop being a d**k and grow up. i cant stand when a person thinks they can make fun of another persons superstitions , and, another thing you did, saying that THERE THING IS WRONG??? that is stupid. why? they are superstitions and none are wrong cuz they are opinons. you cant say if they are wrong or right. you think what you think and they think what they think. you will not change there mind. its like saying that every one should like trump. they dont NEED to, they could like biden, or they can hate them both,like me.(im 11 but i hate them both)
Aileen 4 years ago
At this point, I'm starting to think they're just a troll seeking attention. Best to just downvote them and move on.
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Kitty Luna Darrow 4 years ago
Why are eleven-year-olds on this website? And calling people d***s? If you don't like a comment, just ignore it. Me, I'm telling you to do something your age level.
Kindness is Everything 4 years ago
Eh, I'm 14 now, I was on this site at 11. I don't see anything wrong with it
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
Many people forget there are children on this site, and there is some awful stuff on this site--not so much content, as people's casual cruelty and name-calling. A reminder that we should all be kind to each other.
person (i think) 4 years ago (edited)
11 year olds are on here because there are lots of cute/funny/interesting/ whatever posts and it turns out they are allowed to read cute/funny/interesting/whatever posts because they are people with agency. (Edit: clarification)
Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
I personally don't like it either. I may seem a little old fashioned even though I'm a teenager, but I just don't feel comfortable about kids and stuff hearing or reading those words. I'm not comfortable about them either, but I have definitely seen worse...
it's Wednesday my dudes. 4 years ago
i know!!!! i said something similar! im thirteen but am a big kmala supporter because she is my mentor lol. f**k you ⬛
person (i think) 4 years ago
They are definitely a troll. Their profile has almost -4000 points
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Well, people ridicule what they don’t understand. Superstitions have roots in omens. Earlier humans were quite bewildered by their surroundings, so recording sequences of key events that might be expected to recur were a primitive way of attempting to know the will of silent gods. It’s an extension of what’s common to all mammalian nervous systems: if you experience A after B, you tend to expect B next time A happens (it’s not even exclusive to mammals). Omens contain an if-clause (protasis) followed by a then-clause (apodosis). 30% of the tablets of King Ashurbanipal consist of tedious, irrational omen literature that dealt with everyday life: “If a fox runs into the public square, that town will be devastated.” “If a man treads on a lizard and kills it, he will prevail over his adversary.” Superstitions are quite easily debunked with simple testing. But true/false isn’t where to search for answers. Those can be found in human psychology
Lola 4 years ago
I don’t think a lot of people know the difference between a superstition and OCD. Anyway, my two superstitions that stuck with me are: never open an umbrella inside because it brings bad luck, and move in place a few times when you see a hearse so it won’t be you in it next time, lol. Oh the crazy things that we have been told. I know they’re crazy, but I still do them.
Sue M. H. R. 4 years ago
I was just in Target yesterday and a father was buying his young daughter (4 yrs?) an umbrella and she opened it in the store. Inside. I think I had a look of horror on my face and quickly passed them, I didn't want any of their bad luck!
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Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
My mother, her mother, and so on back a few generations, have handed down the superstition that butterflies bear messages from loved ones who have died, to let you know everything will work out okay.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
We think so. After my grandmotehr died, my mother and I were "swarmed" by butterflies the following spring, and we liked to think it was the family letting us know it was all okay.
g90814 4 years ago (edited)
Lots of odd habits. TBH I have never heard of most of them. Many people were trolled hard by family members!
CatWoman312 4 years ago
There’s a bridge that separates off the outer banks of North Carolina from inland. When you reach the top of the bridge you’ll see people “throwing” something out the window. It’s their worries. When you visit the outer banks, you leave your worries at home.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
To me, that's littering. I'd sooner have my worries wash away in the tides! :-)
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Errr.... what's wrong with my worries washing away when I splash in the rising tide instead of tossing something out the car window?
Patricia Sloan 4 years ago
When I was about 5 or 6 and was mad at my mother I would cry and tell her I was going to step on the crack on the sidewalk!
Miss Milinky 4 years ago
This is probably reasonably common in the UK amongst older generations, but my Gran always taught me to count the Magpies to find out what kind of luck was coming my way (1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl, 4 for a boy etc) and if it was only 1 Magpie you had to tell it very sternly and loudly to go find it's wife. I still do this! GO FIND YOUR WIFE!
N G 4 years ago
Curiously, there are different rhymes for magpies - that one was the theme to the 60's TV show. There's at least half a dozen other versions including "one for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a funeral, four for a birth" - which presumably is in keeping with odd numbers = bad, even numbers = good (like with the TV volume!), until you get to "three for a wedding and four for a birth". Then five and six get complicated with gold, silver, rich, poor, heaven and hell all getting a look in. The rhymes all end with seven though - probably auspicious of something...
Load More Replies... Miss Milinky 4 years ago
There's also the weird extended version that I always forget: Eight for a wish, Nine for a kiss, Ten a surprise you should be careful not to miss, Eleven for health, Twelve for wealth, Thirteen beware it’s the devil himself. Which seems to get rid of the 'odd numbers are bad' but only to save it up for good old unlucky 13!
Miss Milinky 4 years ago
weirdly I did see six back in January and thought "oooo gold!" mostly because I hadn't seen that many together for a long time...and then I got promoted at the end of Jan. All hail the Magpies!
Melanie King 4 years ago
Oh I didn't know this was an actual thing, I read about it in a fiction book the other day and didn't think it existed outside the book. It was called the "magpies lullaby" in the book
Roadkill The Brave 4 years ago
I fully believe in Murphy's Law. 2021 is being controlled by Murphy's Law and no one can convince me otherwise. If you don't know Murphy's Law google it.
Mama Panda 4 years ago
Murphy and I are old friends. He has been hanging out with me since i was around 6 years old lol
Load More Replies... N G 4 years ago
"White Rabbits" is a superstition in our family. On the 1st of the month, after waking up and before you say anything else you whisper "white rabbits" three times for good luck in the month. The exception is New Year's Day - there are conflicting good luck wishes, so the rabbits get the month off! I have NO idea where it comes from, it's just something we've always done.
Jill Bussey 4 years ago
My family and many others believed that saying white rabbits prevented anyone from playing unkind tricks on you.
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Jenn Unicorn Popping 4 years ago
About 12 years ago someone told me there is a superstition (I believe he said Irish) that you never go up a staircase when someone goes down (or vise versa) or it's bad luck. I started following this and look very foolish waiting for someone to finish on the stairs but hey I've had enough bad luck so whatever!
denzoren 4 years ago
Ever since childhood we were told we can't point at a cemetery. If we do we have to bite each finger otherwise they'll all fall off. Up to this day I make sure I don't point and if I do by mistake...I try to subtly bite each finger so no one will notice. Also if I see someone pointing I'll keep looking at them like "bite your fingers!" I have no idea why this stuck but I'm in my 30's and I still do this every single time.
BananaAnna 4 years ago
I was taught that if you found money on the floor/ground whatever amount it was indicated how many people loved you that day. Once I found a twenty-dollar bill. Sadly, the real owner found me shortly thereafter and I relinquished the twenty. Guess, I wound up -20 people in love with me for that day.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
I never get up at 3:33 am...even if I have to go to the bathroom really bad. Every demon movie I've ever seen, bad things happen at 3:33 am.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago (edited)
I hold my breath driving by a cemetery to make sure the bodies don't get breath and come back as zombies
Mama Panda 4 years ago
I do this one too. But not for your reasons, although they do make sense. I do it because if they can no longer breathe, then I shouldn't be showing off in front of them.
Jennifer Brown 3 years ago
If I spill salt I have to take some of the spilled salt and throw it over my left shoulder, supposedly into the eyes of the devil. I also will not walk under a ladder.
Deep One 4 years ago (edited)
Don't know if this counts as a superstition but recently I got to thinking about how answers to questions pop into your head later. So who/what was doing the searching? You were putting no effort into remembering so why did the the answer suddenly pop into your conscious mind. So what if your subconscious is a full sentient being trapped in your mind with no access to your motor centers? So now whenever an answer pops into my head I always say "Thank you" just in case.
haha laser go brrr 4 years ago
Whenever I find a chip/crisp that is folded onto itself, I call them wishchips and make a wish just before I eat them.
Jessica Aubé 4 years ago
When driving past a cemetery you need to hold your breathe until you see the first White House I have no idea why
Serenity Kinney 4 years ago
IDK who the guy/girl with the userer name of (wait there is no name its just a square) but whoever you are, stop being a d**k and grow up. i cant stand when a person thinks they can make fun of another persons superstitions , and, another thing you did, saying that THERE THING IS WRONG??? that is stupid. why? they are superstitions and none are wrong cuz they are opinons. you cant say if they are wrong or right. you think what you think and they think what they think. you will not change there mind. its like saying that every one should like trump. they dont NEED to, they could like biden, or they can hate them both,like me.(im 11 but i hate them both)
Aileen 4 years ago
At this point, I'm starting to think they're just a troll seeking attention. Best to just downvote them and move on.
Load More Replies... Kitty Luna Darrow 4 years ago
Why are eleven-year-olds on this website? And calling people d***s? If you don't like a comment, just ignore it. Me, I'm telling you to do something your age level.
Kindness is Everything 4 years ago
Eh, I'm 14 now, I was on this site at 11. I don't see anything wrong with it
Agnes Jekyll 4 years ago
Many people forget there are children on this site, and there is some awful stuff on this site--not so much content, as people's casual cruelty and name-calling. A reminder that we should all be kind to each other.
person (i think) 4 years ago (edited)
11 year olds are on here because there are lots of cute/funny/interesting/ whatever posts and it turns out they are allowed to read cute/funny/interesting/whatever posts because they are people with agency. (Edit: clarification)
Noemie Houtekie-N'Da 4 years ago
I personally don't like it either. I may seem a little old fashioned even though I'm a teenager, but I just don't feel comfortable about kids and stuff hearing or reading those words. I'm not comfortable about them either, but I have definitely seen worse...
it's Wednesday my dudes. 4 years ago
i know!!!! i said something similar! im thirteen but am a big kmala supporter because she is my mentor lol. f**k you ⬛
person (i think) 4 years ago
They are definitely a troll. Their profile has almost -4000 points
Nevits Yibble 4 years ago
Well, people ridicule what they don’t understand. Superstitions have roots in omens. Earlier humans were quite bewildered by their surroundings, so recording sequences of key events that might be expected to recur were a primitive way of attempting to know the will of silent gods. It’s an extension of what’s common to all mammalian nervous systems: if you experience A after B, you tend to expect B next time A happens (it’s not even exclusive to mammals). Omens contain an if-clause (protasis) followed by a then-clause (apodosis). 30% of the tablets of King Ashurbanipal consist of tedious, irrational omen literature that dealt with everyday life: “If a fox runs into the public square, that town will be devastated.” “If a man treads on a lizard and kills it, he will prevail over his adversary.” Superstitions are quite easily debunked with simple testing. But true/false isn’t where to search for answers. Those can be found in human psychology
Lola 4 years ago
I don’t think a lot of people know the difference between a superstition and OCD. Anyway, my two superstitions that stuck with me are: never open an umbrella inside because it brings bad luck, and move in place a few times when you see a hearse so it won’t be you in it next time, lol. Oh the crazy things that we have been told. I know they’re crazy, but I still do them.
Sue M. H. R. 4 years ago
I was just in Target yesterday and a father was buying his young daughter (4 yrs?) an umbrella and she opened it in the store. Inside. I think I had a look of horror on my face and quickly passed them, I didn't want any of their bad luck!
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
My mother, her mother, and so on back a few generations, have handed down the superstition that butterflies bear messages from loved ones who have died, to let you know everything will work out okay.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
We think so. After my grandmotehr died, my mother and I were "swarmed" by butterflies the following spring, and we liked to think it was the family letting us know it was all okay.
g90814 4 years ago (edited)
Lots of odd habits. TBH I have never heard of most of them. Many people were trolled hard by family members!
CatWoman312 4 years ago
There’s a bridge that separates off the outer banks of North Carolina from inland. When you reach the top of the bridge you’ll see people “throwing” something out the window. It’s their worries. When you visit the outer banks, you leave your worries at home.
Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
To me, that's littering. I'd sooner have my worries wash away in the tides! :-)
Load More Replies... Leo Domitrix 4 years ago
Errr.... what's wrong with my worries washing away when I splash in the rising tide instead of tossing something out the car window?
Patricia Sloan 4 years ago
When I was about 5 or 6 and was mad at my mother I would cry and tell her I was going to step on the crack on the sidewalk!
Miss Milinky 4 years ago
This is probably reasonably common in the UK amongst older generations, but my Gran always taught me to count the Magpies to find out what kind of luck was coming my way (1 for sorrow, 2 for joy, 3 for a girl, 4 for a boy etc) and if it was only 1 Magpie you had to tell it very sternly and loudly to go find it's wife. I still do this! GO FIND YOUR WIFE!
N G 4 years ago
Curiously, there are different rhymes for magpies - that one was the theme to the 60's TV show. There's at least half a dozen other versions including "one for sorrow, two for mirth, three for a funeral, four for a birth" - which presumably is in keeping with odd numbers = bad, even numbers = good (like with the TV volume!), until you get to "three for a wedding and four for a birth". Then five and six get complicated with gold, silver, rich, poor, heaven and hell all getting a look in. The rhymes all end with seven though - probably auspicious of something...
Load More Replies... Miss Milinky 4 years ago
There's also the weird extended version that I always forget: Eight for a wish, Nine for a kiss, Ten a surprise you should be careful not to miss, Eleven for health, Twelve for wealth, Thirteen beware it’s the devil himself. Which seems to get rid of the 'odd numbers are bad' but only to save it up for good old unlucky 13!
Miss Milinky 4 years ago
weirdly I did see six back in January and thought "oooo gold!" mostly because I hadn't seen that many together for a long time...and then I got promoted at the end of Jan. All hail the Magpies!
Melanie King 4 years ago
Oh I didn't know this was an actual thing, I read about it in a fiction book the other day and didn't think it existed outside the book. It was called the "magpies lullaby" in the book
Roadkill The Brave 4 years ago
I fully believe in Murphy's Law. 2021 is being controlled by Murphy's Law and no one can convince me otherwise. If you don't know Murphy's Law google it.
Mama Panda 4 years ago
Murphy and I are old friends. He has been hanging out with me since i was around 6 years old lol
Load More Replies... N G 4 years ago
"White Rabbits" is a superstition in our family. On the 1st of the month, after waking up and before you say anything else you whisper "white rabbits" three times for good luck in the month. The exception is New Year's Day - there are conflicting good luck wishes, so the rabbits get the month off! I have NO idea where it comes from, it's just something we've always done.
Jill Bussey 4 years ago
My family and many others believed that saying white rabbits prevented anyone from playing unkind tricks on you.
Load More Replies... Jenn Unicorn Popping 4 years ago
About 12 years ago someone told me there is a superstition (I believe he said Irish) that you never go up a staircase when someone goes down (or vise versa) or it's bad luck. I started following this and look very foolish waiting for someone to finish on the stairs but hey I've had enough bad luck so whatever!
denzoren 4 years ago
Ever since childhood we were told we can't point at a cemetery. If we do we have to bite each finger otherwise they'll all fall off. Up to this day I make sure I don't point and if I do by mistake...I try to subtly bite each finger so no one will notice. Also if I see someone pointing I'll keep looking at them like "bite your fingers!" I have no idea why this stuck but I'm in my 30's and I still do this every single time.
BananaAnna 4 years ago
I was taught that if you found money on the floor/ground whatever amount it was indicated how many people loved you that day. Once I found a twenty-dollar bill. Sadly, the real owner found me shortly thereafter and I relinquished the twenty. Guess, I wound up -20 people in love with me for that day.
Carol Emory 4 years ago
I never get up at 3:33 am...even if I have to go to the bathroom really bad. Every demon movie I've ever seen, bad things happen at 3:33 am.
Bobert Robertson 4 years ago (edited)
I hold my breath driving by a cemetery to make sure the bodies don't get breath and come back as zombies
Mama Panda 4 years ago
I do this one too. But not for your reasons, although they do make sense. I do it because if they can no longer breathe, then I shouldn't be showing off in front of them.
Jennifer Brown 3 years ago
If I spill salt I have to take some of the spilled salt and throw it over my left shoulder, supposedly into the eyes of the devil. I also will not walk under a ladder.
Deep One 4 years ago (edited)
Don't know if this counts as a superstition but recently I got to thinking about how answers to questions pop into your head later. So who/what was doing the searching? You were putting no effort into remembering so why did the the answer suddenly pop into your conscious mind. So what if your subconscious is a full sentient being trapped in your mind with no access to your motor centers? So now whenever an answer pops into my head I always say "Thank you" just in case.
haha laser go brrr 4 years ago
Whenever I find a chip/crisp that is folded onto itself, I call them wishchips and make a wish just before I eat them.
Jessica Aubé 4 years ago
When driving past a cemetery you need to hold your breathe until you see the first White House I have no idea why
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