Remember those old superstitions? Some folks still have them I suppose. Several comes to mind that we were cautioned about as children. It was bad luck to bring any garden tool indoors...to walk with one shoe on, one off. Now that I am grown and think about it, I believe they were made up by busy mothers who didn't have time to explain why something shouldn't be done. By saying it was bad luck kept children from asking why. It also kept the men folks from bring their tools indoors and leaving them by the door. I am not so sure they actually believed them. My mother stop mentioning them in later years, which made me think they were no longer needed. Shirley in TX who still remembers.