Do you have any knife-related superstitions?

WadeF said:
I'm not supersticious, but I always feel funny if I forget my EDC. I guess I'm afraid of irony and that the one time I don't have my EDC I'll really need it. Like I'll be in a car wreck and be trapped in my seat belt and burn to death because I forgot my knife. :)
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I know that feeling. The few times im without a knife I cosntantly am wondering if I will need it and then I worry a LOT.
 
Mirror-Saw said:
The "A knife as a gift from a lover means that the love will soon end." one sounds about right...
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I'm going to disagree with you on that one. I gave my BM Grip to my favorite female a while ago. Right now she is away for the summer teaching at a kids camp and says the knife reminds her of me. Not sure if this is weird or not but I can't see how it might be a BAD thing.
 
I'm a bit skeptical of giving kitchen knives to ex-all american running backs and axes to women named Lizzie....
 
Thirteenth Star said:
Those of you who return coins, what kind? Foreign? Domestic? Exotic? Collectable?
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Myself and my friends and a family member usually give pre-1963 American coins.Pennies,nickels,dimes,quarters,halves and SilverDollars.A tradition passed down from my grandfather.When a knife is given as a gift,a coin is given or the friendship is cut.
 
I'm sure I am not the only one practicing this old tradition. Before I behead someone I have stabbed I always drink a pint of their blood. I hear this is going out of favor along many eastern seaboard states. Is this true? :eek: :eek:
 
It has been said that it is bad luck to buy a knife in front of the wife. (although in my case it is almost impossible to do so at all anyway)

It may also be bad luck to tell the wife you bought a knife outside of her knowledge or presence. (same goes with guns) Not that I have any secrets from my honey mind you :D

Now repeat after me alll you husbands and husband wannabes:

"Oh yeah, I've had that one for a while now." (referring to the standard line for all husbands when the wife says, referring to your new knife: "Oh I don't remember that one. When did you get that?" ) :o
 
It may be bad luck to bring a knife to a gun fight.. :p .. but good luck the other way around.. :D
 
If I don't bathe the knife in goat's blood while completely naked under the light of a full moon, some crazy person may get my knife.
 
STR said:
It has been said that it is bad luck to buy a knife in front of the wife. (although in my case it is almost impossible to do so at all anyway)

It may also be bad luck to tell the wife you bought a knife outside of her knowledge or presence. (same goes with guns) Not that I have any secrets from my honey mind you :D

Now repeat after me alll you husbands and husband wannabes:

"Oh yeah, I've had that one for a while now." (referring to the standard line for all husbands when the wife says, referring to your new knife: "Oh I don't remember that one. When did you get that?" ) :o
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This is a wise, wise man. I think I sat next to you on the bench at the mall. The husband's time out corner.

Only superstition I really have is to return the knife in the way it was given to you, ie..if you opened it then you close it. Always saw my brother insist on it when I was a kid and I guess it just stuck.
 
The strangest one that I have heard is that in Scotland when a little dust
devil would kick up some straw, they would throw thier knives through it
because they though it was a "evil spirit".

And two knives shouldn't be crossed on a dinner plate.

A knife stuck into a beam was supposed to give strength to the structure.
Same with a ship's beam.

I think that if you spend too much money on knives your power may go off
for some unforseen reason, ditto the phone. :D
 
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