SUPERSTITIONS ...2

Walking Under A Ladder

This has always seemed like the most rational of the more common superstitions. After all, if you walk under a ladder, you're pretty likely to have something fall on your head from the top of the ladder. But that's not the only reason that walking under a ladder is considered to be unlucky.

As it turns out, early Christians felt the triangle was a sacred sign that represented the Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. When a ladder was pushed against a building, it would form the shape of a triangle, and thus, by walking under it, you were breaking the triangle. This was such a bad thing to do that early Christians would often label anyone who walked under a ladder to be a witch in league with Satan –and that could be even more dangerous than having a hammer fall on your head.