Did you know it is considered bad luck for a cowboy to wear yellow in the arena? It’s because the color is associated with cowardice. Never, set a cowboy hat on a bed because that could lead to a major injury or death

Any occupation that involves danger creates superstitions among its participants. Miners are also a superstitious bunch including: Its bad luck for a woman to go in a mine. If your clothes fell off the hook in the change room, you were going to fall in a hole; If one’s lamp didn’t burn bright, it meant his wife was stepping out with another man while he was deep underground.

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