Superstitious Saturday Shoes
Here’s a superstition I never encountered.
Perhaps it does not apply to dancers?
Apparently, putting shoes on a dressing
room table will bring bad luck. Hmmm. Almost every dancer I know lines up their
pointe shoes on their dressing table, often in order of use. It never caused
any bad luck that I know of…
Then again, in the world of the theater,
actors probably have bigger shoes, or boots or something similar that would
make the top of the table crowded, to say the least, so maybe that has
something to do with it.
This superstition may go back to the belief
in the UK that putting new shoes on a table symbolises death of a family member.
Or, here’s another reason from https://relo.wordpress.com/2007/07/11/superstition-and-shoes/:
“Shoes placed on a table are thought
to be a bad omen and either a quarrel in the house, or a storm of thunder and
lightening will come.”
From the Big
Blue Book of Ballet Secrets
Superstition #147:
“Shoes on a dressing-room table will bring bad luck.”
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Quote of the Day:
“It
doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in
them.”
― Martina Boone, Compulsion
― Martina Boone, Compulsion
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