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Why is it considered "bad luck" to let a rocking chair rock while no one is sitting in it?

And where did this superstition originate?

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  • 9 years ago
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    Uii, it is ... :O :P

    ha ive been playing with my dads rocking chair since i was tree :P

  • 9 years ago

    Ive never heard of that one, there is all kinds of superstition beliefs, my grandmother is very superstitious, me not so much... some of the superstitions I do believe, like not to break mirrors, lol.

  • Corey
    Lv 4
    9 years ago

    because it allows ghosts to possess the chair

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