Description: It is bad luck to light three cigarettes from the same match
Origin: Europe, date uncertain
This may come from the Russian Orthodox Church, where three altar candles are lit from the same flame during a funeral service. Or it may come from the trenches of World War I, where anyone who kept a match alight for long enough to light three cigarettes risked the attention of the enemy.
THREE CIGARETTES ON ONE MATCH
- NO PROBLEM IF THE MATCH IS THIS SIZE
Note: These superstitions
were researched and written by Stuart Macfarlane (Website:
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