SUPERSTITIONS : Getting Up On The Right Side Of The Bed LORE & SOURCES Getting up in the morning is, of course, still more important that going to bed, for example, making sure that each item of clothing is put on without dropping to the ground. And getting out of the bed on the right side (as apposed to the wrong or left side) is vital for the coming day, though who decides which is right and which is wrong is hard to discover when examining ancient lores. The only real source concerned with what is the right and wrong side of the bed comes fro the fisherman's world. No sensible fisherman during the nineteenth century would ever board his boat on the left side, however inconvenient it might be. It seems that this superstition originally arose out of the idea that anything left-handed was unnatural, on the basis that the majority of human beings were right handed! Left feet were unlucky, as were left hands, so that getting out of bed on the left side had also to be unlucky BACK TO TOP

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