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WishGoodLuck.com has been updated with a new article on Baby’s Luck – A Few Superstitions You Just Might Want to Consider by Chitraparna Sinha.

In the Oxford Dictionary of Superstitions, edited by Opie and Tatem, they list a comprehensive series on superstitions related to newborns and how they supposedly bring good luck (or bad luck) for the baby. Some of the superstitions are too unbelievable and some, as you will see, are still practiced today. Evidence of the superstitions range from being centuries old to contemporary concepts.

• Babies Should Always Be Carried Upward First –

I came up – stairs into the world;

for I was born in a cellar.

Congreve’s Love for Love II, i

The prevalent notion is that a baby must go upstairs first before he goes downstairs otherwise the baby will never rise in the world. Often it happens so that the mother’s room is the highest in the house and therefore, the nurse has to set a chair, step on the chair with the child in her arms as she leaves the room.

In more modern times, at least here in the United States, there is no nurse and the baby is normally not born at home. So when the baby arrives home to a two-story house or multi-level house, if you want to follow this superstition there is probably nothing to do, unless you want to take the baby down to the basement or a lower level of the house. In such cases it might be well advised to step up on a small footstool with the child before going downstairs. [...]

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WishGoodLuck.com has been updated with a new article on Beds, Luck, and Superstitions by Chitraparna Sinha.

A commodity of comfort and peaceful slumber, beds or mattresses have been associated with good and bad luck, depending on the situation one perceives the tradition. These superstitious associations date back as far as the16^th century. That’s about when written evidence began to appear in literary works, non fictional writings and later in journals, personal diaries, magazines and others.

Here we give you some superstitious traditions or beliefs – some are believed even today while some others are outright intriguing.

• If a house has an unfinished bedspread, none of the women in the house will get married. Keeping the bedspread incomplete brings bad luck.

• It is unlucky to turn a bed occupied by a mother and her newborn before the month of mandatory confinement is over as it brings bad luck.

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