Greek learners of the Primary School of Pteleos (Magnesia, Greece) work with their European peers to collect superstitions! The first category refers to home-related superstitions!

2. If you leave a hair
brush upside down,
then something bad is
going to happen to
your appearance!!
Your beautiful face or
body may become
really ugly!!

3. If you see a black
bird on top of your
roof, someone in
your family will die.
Unfortunately,
there is nothing you
can do to prevent it
from happening!

4. If you are at home and
you break a mirror, then
something bad will
happen to your family.
Some people say that, if
you break a mirror, you
will have 7 years of very
bad luck.

5. If you keep the scissors
open at home,
then people are
gossiping about you.
You must close it, so
as to 'cut' their
tongues!

6. You should never let a
loaf of bread upside
down. Some people say
that something bad will
happen to your family,
while some others say
that it's disrespectful to
God.

7. If you leave your
slippers upside down,
then something bad is
going to happen to you.
That's why you should
never leave your
slippers upside down!!!

8. When you hold your
cheeks with your
hands, someone is
going to die. That's
why one should
never lean his head
on both of his/her
palms.

9. You mustn't open an
umbrella in the house! If
you open an umbrella in
your house, then someone,
who lives in the house
where you open the
umbrella, is going to die!
So, BE CAREFUL!!!

10. If you have an undesirable
visitor at home and you
want to send him/her
away, the only thing you
have to do is secretly spill
some salt behind his back.
This will send him/her
away from you!!!

11. If you see a smoking hole in a
log in your fireplace, then you
are definitely the talk of the
town, not always with a
good reason. Greeks believe
that smoking holes in pieces
of wood, mean that somebody
is gossiping on a person in
your family.

12. If you have some guests at you
house for some days and they
decide to leave, you can't tidy
and clean up your house until
your guests reach their
destination! If you start
cleaning up right after they
leave, something bad is going to
happen to them.

13. Tuesday
13th is the
unluckiest
date of the
year!!!