Saturday Superstition Wrong Side
Most people are familiar with the idea
that getting up on the “wrong side of the bed” is unlucky. But how did this
well-known superstition get started?
It may come from the ancient Egyptians.
They believed that the left side of the bed is the side to avoid since the left
side of anything was thought to belong to evil forces. The Romans also believed
that arising on the left side of the bed was bad luck as was stepping out with
the left foot first.
However, according to https://grammarist.com/idiom/get-up-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-bed-and-wake-up-on-the-wrong-side-of-the-bed/
“The earliest citation in the Oxford English Dictionary of the
idioms get up on the wrong side
of the bed and wake
up on the wrong side of the bed is from 1801.”
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Superstition #175:
“Getting up on the wrong side of the bed is believed
to bring bad luck.”
Link of the Day:
Quote of the Day:
Every bed
has a right and a wrong side,” said Mary Poppins, primly. “Not mine—it’s next
the wall.” “That makes no difference. It’s still a side,” scoffed Mary Poppins.
“Well, is the wrong side the left side or is the wrong side the right side?
Because I got out on the right side, so how can it be wrong?”
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins
― P.L. Travers, Mary Poppins
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