Amber beads, worn as a necklace, can protect against illness or cure colds.
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Placing keys on a table is considered unlucky. (Sweden)
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Collect seven or nine different flowers on midsummer eve and place them under your pillow and it is said that you will dream of your future spouse. (Sweden)
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Before traveling a person should, apparently, sit on their luggage. (Russian)
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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.
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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.
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It's bad luck to leave a house through a different door than the one used to come into it.
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If you catch a falling leaf on the first day of autumn you will not catch a cold all winter.
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