BRITISH BELIEFS ● You must not open an umbrella inside a house for it may bring bad luck to you. Two women should not pour tea from the same tea pot unless they want to have a baby. It is believed that one will have a baby less than a year later. • If you are asked for the salt at the table, you must not hand it to the other person. You must put it down on the table in front of them. ^You ought not to light three cigarettes with the same match; the last person will have bad luck. You should not put shoes on the table; there might be an argument in the house before long. When you spill salt on the table, you must throw three pinches of salt over your left shoulder immediately. When you have to go back home after you have started a journey (be­cause you have forgotten something), you must not leave immediately. You'd better / You had better sit down and count to ten, or from seven backwards, if you don't want to have an accident.  ♦ You ought to tie an old shoe to the back of the car in which a newly-married couple are leaving for their honeymoon because it will bring them good luck. • You needn't worry so much about superstitions because they are often contradictory.