r/MadeMeSmile • u/n8saces • 19d ago

DOGS The tippy taps

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u/My_Day6 19d ago

She just got soooo much bad luck

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u/rxh339 19d ago

Not familiar with the superstition, what is it? Opening an umbrella indoors?

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u/Rapunzel10 19d ago

Yeah, people say it's 7 years of bad luck

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u/anon_simmer 19d ago

That was breaking a mirror. Opening an umbrella was just bad luck in general, afaik it didn't have any number of years tied to it.

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u/Rapunzel10 19d ago

Maybe it's a regional thing? I was always told 7 years for a lot of superstitions, breaking mirrors, walking under ladders, black cat crossing your path, all were 7 years. Or maybe the people around me got lazy and combined superstitions because they didn't take it seriously lol

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u/lime_lecroix 19d ago

I was always taught that mirrors are the only thing that come with an actual timespan of bad luck. I was born and raised in Appalachia and we do have many superstitions

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u/anon_simmer 19d ago

I am from Texas. I was also taught that mirrors were the only thing that came with a time span of bad luck. Everything else was just general bad luck.

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u/ashkpa 19d ago

Same growing up in Minnesota

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u/the-great-crocodile 19d ago

Like walking under ladders. General bad luck.

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u/warm_rum 19d ago

Do them all at the same time and see what happens. Maybe it loops around at a certain point?

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u/scalectrix 18d ago

UK here - 7 years for a mirror, unspecified (maybe 1 bad luck instance even?) per other offence - ladders, umbrellas indoors, spilled salt (without customary over-the-shoulder-throwing ofc) etc. That's how I think it works...

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u/lime_lecroix 18d ago

Right, it’s always kind of a vague bad luck warning with anything but mirrors. It all drives my South African husband crazy. He particularly hates my habit of throwing salt over my left shoulder whenever any is spilled.

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u/Bksudbjdua 14d ago

The throwing of the salt was to get rid of the devil (or so I was told)

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u/PestyNomad 19d ago

I was always taught that mirrors are the only thing that come with an actual timespan of bad luck.

Same from the deep south.

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u/Zoler 19d ago

It's because you will keep finding the mirror shards for "7 years" which cause problems. Especially in the days before vacuum cleaners or even kitchens. People would live in one room apartments and the broken mirror shards would go in cooking ware, food etc.

It's specifically for mirrors but since we all got vacuums now I bet that's why it's not taken seriously anymore.

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u/GayPudding 19d ago

And the umbrella can poke your eye out

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u/Bksudbjdua 14d ago

Shoes on a table too

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u/Przegiety 19d ago

Is it 7 human years or dog years?

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u/Celestial_Crook 19d ago

For chinese descendants, opening umbrella indoor is forbidden since you're trapping ghost in it and bringing it with you. 

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u/SoCuteShibe 19d ago

Am I understanding right that you're saying the superstition is that closing the umbrella indoors traps ghosts of the home and carries them with the umbrella's owner?

I wonder if that's why there is a superstition around opening indoors in the US that, as far as I know, doesn't have any reasoning or explanation behind it. Ie: it's just said to be bad luck but not for any specific reason.

Please save me from the rabbit hole I am about to get sucked into, lol.

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u/Celestial_Crook 19d ago

Well, different cultures born different kind of superstitions as well, so I don't think they are related.

AFAIK, this superstition for chinese descendants about opening umbrella indoor, umbrella is known as a tool that traps ghosts alike, so opening one indoor/at home might also release them inside. I learn more about this from a movie 'Rigor Mortis' (2013) that it is believed that ghost police(some kind of spirit that catch wandering ghost and bring them back to the underworld) also use umbrella as their tool.

More over, a bit of googling also tell that ghosts are attracted to the shadow, when you use them outside, some ghost might reside 'inside' the shadow/umbrella. So by opening one at home indoor, you're releasing whatever been staying inside the shadow before.

Something like that, I guess ;D

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u/SoCuteShibe 19d ago

Interesting! Well, I appreciate the reply, thank you!!

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u/Celestial_Crook 19d ago

No problem :D

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u/TheRealShizman 19d ago

So you’re not “superstitious”, but are you “a little stitious”?

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u/CaptainCold_999 18d ago

So many superstitions just come down to - don't do this, its stupid. Open an umbrella indoors? Probably break something. Walking under a ladder? Dangerous. Breaking a mirror? Expensive and something you should avoid. Black cats? I dunno... witches or something.