Spilling salt is a common misfortune ... the weather gods to the umbrella symbolizing misfortune trapped inside. This childhood rhyme is a more lighthearted superstition, but its origins are ...

On a good day, I like to consider myself a logical personrational even. Still, I refuse to walk under a ladder, step on a crack or pick up a tails-up coin. One time, I almost ended an Uber ride ...