Ladders

Each day on my way to work, I walk under these two ladders. When I noticed this, I wondered “Is it still unlucky to walk under ladders if they’re lying horizontally above you?” And “Does walking under two counter the unluckiness of walking under one? Or does it double the unluckiness?”

I Googled it and found out that this is actually a religious superstition and (hard-core Christians, stop reading now)… well it’s really stupid. Walking under ladders was first considered a terrible crime punishable by God because a ladder leaning against a wall forms a triangle which is representative of the Holy Trinity. By passing under a ladder, you would be passing through a sacred area and back in the day, you could be labelled a witch and / or a Satanist for it. –_–