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Saturday, September 1, 2018

Saturday Comb Superstition



Saturday Comb Superstition

Here is yet another superstition from the backstage archives. If you should happen to drop a comb in the dressing room, you must leave it for someone else to pick up. If you pick it up yourself, it will bring bad luck. Hmmm.

This sounds to me like a made-up superstition by someone who was basically lazy. But there is some history here too. Dropping a comb while in the act of combing one’s hair by anyone (not just theater people) was said to foretell upcoming disappointment.

Whether the comb dropping superstition migrated from the masses to the theater or vice versa is a mystery.

From the Big Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Superstition #136:
“If you drop a comb in the dressing room, you must leave it for someone else to pick up.”

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