Squigy wrote:Am I mistaken? I thought 13 was good luck to Italians, and bad luck to most other cultures.

Oh, Yes usually 13 is lucky, it's rigth! But some times (depend on region) 13 is bed. 17 is certainly bed number, especially Friday 17.

misbris wrote: Deynonichus, you are doing great with your English, we can all understand you very well.

thank you very much!
If the word you mean with ***Spam*** is what I'm thinking...yes, it's bed to do "it" on a lay table! Besides it's unhygienic.

In Italy, with few exceptions, the sanatoriums were places where the care offered to patients did not allow their recovery. Were finally abolished in the late seventies, with the creation of infectious wards in hospitals normal.
The sanitarium is a hospital equipped to treat chronic long-stay, such ...

DeFilippis78 wrote:Some of these aren't just Italian superstition. Many cultures believe its bad luck to go under a ladder, the number 13, Friday, and opening an umbrella in a house is bad luck as well.

This is very consolatory!

A bit of Italian superstitions:
It's bed:
-to walk under a ladder;
-Oil falls accidentally (in this case throwing a pinch of salt over your left shoulder back);
-to put bread on the table upside down;
-to move in November;
-to open the umbrella in the house;
-to go with the broom on the feet of ...

What about putting salt on or in something new (like a car) for good luck?

I know the salt is anti-"evil eye" (malocchio). Salt goes also on the oil falls down (on table or on the floor). Oil falling down is a very bad think.
My grandfather used a sprinkling of wine to wish good luck to a new ...

Italysearcher wrote:Here is a superstition I just had contact with. You can't take a baby out until its been baptized and during this time you keep a broom behind the door.

I believe this does not exist. I never heard this.

I was born in Italy, I live in Italy, I'm italian, and in italian it's: Tutto il mondo è paese! I assure!

Hello! Have you some news about the relationship between LaPella or Leapello or Leppello and Lippelli from the south of Italy?

Hi,
I think can be important to know that there is a family in Calabria (Soveria Simeri, Catanzaro) Lippelli. I'm Lippelli too. We never know our family's story, because my father's grandfather was a orphan. Somebody gived to him this surname but we don't know why! If you have some more information ...