{"id":180,"date":"2011-05-16T16:31:03","date_gmt":"2011-05-16T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shaneco.com\/theloupe\/?p=180"},"modified":"2018-09-06T15:48:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T21:48:56","slug":"superstitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shaneco.com\/theloupe\/shane-co\/tom-shanes-world\/superstitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Superstitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past Friday (the 13<sup>th<\/sup>) we reached out to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shanecompany\">Facebook<\/a> community and asked them of any specific jewelry superstitions that they were aware of. \u00a0I, having spent my entire life around jewelry, had never really come across any jewelry-related superstitions, and thought the responses on Facebook would be minimal at best.\u00a0 I was sure wrong on this one.<\/p>\n<p>Not being a particularly superstitious guy (besides my own private quirks of course) and not counting karma, which I\u2019m convinced science will prove as factual one of these days, I found the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/shanecompany\/posts\/10150182743820878\">responses<\/a> very interesting.\u00a0They ranged from those hearing that it is bad luck to wear opals if you were born outside of the month of October (opal is the birthstone for October), to it being bad luck to wear pearls on someone\u2019s wedding day.<\/p>\n<p>I had never heard of any particular gemstone being bad luck for someone to wear, but I suppose it is no different than any other superstition.\u00a0 I can only imagine that sometime, somewhere, something horrible happened to someone wearing an opal who was born on a month other than October, and the rest became a part of history in some form of storytelling.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve ever heard of an origin from a given superstition, they usually turn out to be as absurd as an occurrence such as this. That being said, I know that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaneco.com\/\">Shane Co.<\/a> sells a lot of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shaneco.com\/necklaces\/c\/pearl\">pearls<\/a> to a lot of brides, bridesmaids, and fathers-of-brides to gift to their daughter, all with the intention for the bride to don them on her big day.\u00a0 Let\u2019s hope that that superstition is debunked for everyone\u2019s cause!<\/p>\n<p>The only response that I read that I did hear of previously was that it is bad luck to try on someone else\u2019s engagement or wedding ring.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I learned about this superstition first hand.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after getting engaged last summer, my fianc\u00e9e and I saw my mother for the first time since the engagement took place.\u00a0 Of course, as I imagine most mothers do, she asked to see the ring.\u00a0 When sticking her hand out wasn\u2019t enough, my new bride-to-be reluctantly took the ring off of her hand.\u00a0 I, paying next to no attention to the entire interaction, must have caught a glimpse of my fianc\u00e9e\u2019s face, because I instantly knew that somehow this happy time turned into something very displeasing to her.\u00a0 After thanking mom for the congrats, the two of us walked away and of course the first thing to come out of my mouth was something like, \u201cwhat possibly could have happened back there to cause you to make that face?\u201d\u00a0 Well, apparently my mother put the ring on her pinky finger for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>So there\u2019s one superstition I now follow, albeit more for accident avoidance than for a supernatural belief, but in the end it\u2019s all the same, isn\u2019t it?\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019d venture a guess that, as with other superstitions, they are only as powerful as you allow them to be. 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