A guide to superstitions
Shoes on a table
Placing shoes on a table is said to bring bad luck, possibly because fully clothed and booted corpses were traditionally laid out on tables. An untied shoelace is one of Britain's oldest signs of bad luck but, down the years, has fallen out of favour as a popular superstition. Look through our other great galleries!
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