According to an age old custom, carrying a dead shrew in your pocket wards off rheumatism!
24
In Asia, the digit 4 never appears in any Nokia handset model number, because 4 is considered unlucky in many parts of Southeast/East Asia.
78
Before traveling a person should, apparently, sit on their luggage. (Russian)
117
There are numerous sailors' superstitions, such as: it is considered bad luck for a ship to set sail on a Friday, to bring anything blue aboard, to stick a knife into the deck, to leave a hatch cover upside-down, to say "pig", or to eat walnuts aboard.
70
It's bad luck to leave a house through a different door than the one used to come into it.
143
Placing a hat on the bed is, apparently, bad luck. (South Carolina)
9
An acorn at the window will keep lightning out
93
Pirates believed that piercing the ears with such precious metals as silver and gold improved one's eyesight.
131