9 Strange Superstitions From Around the World
| June 5, 2015
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Lighting 3 Cigarettes With One Match
The superstition that lighting three cigarettes with one match is bad luck came from soldiers in the Crimean War. It was thought that when the first soldier lit his cigarette, the enemy would see the light; when the second soldier lit his cigarette, the enemy would take aim; and when the third soldier lit his cigarette, the enemy would fire. This translated into a peacetime tradition of avoiding lighting three cigarettes off the same match to avoid bad luck by association.
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