Salt Over Your Shoulder

Salt Over Your Shoulder

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Salt Over Your Shoulder episodes

  • Episode 43 - Autumn

    It's Fall Y'all!!!


    Finally!  It's time for pumpkins and mulled wine, hayrides and sweater weather.  Never mind the fact that it's still 90 degrees in Texas; Erin is ready to watch Hocus Pocus!


    This week is all autumn, fall superstitions, harvests and the pull of the moon.

    22 min
  • Episode 42 - Owls

    What could be more appropriate for a group of Harry Potter fans than to focus an entire episode on Owls?


    Amanda hosts this week and slightly grosses out the girls with a few weird Owl superstitions.

    27 min
  • Episode 40- House warming

    Struggling to buy or sell a house?  This is the episode for you!  We have all the superstitions, tips and tricks you need to buy, sell or move into a home!



    30 min
  • Episode 39 - Ladybugs

    Ladybugs, or "The Lady's Bugs" are great luck, but do you know why?

    This episode has religious ties, especially to Catholicism,  and Amanda recounts her near death experience in Big Bend National Park.

    17 min
  • Episode 38- Gardening

    Want to know where Scarecrows come from?  Or why you should burn yours?

    Join Tammy as she talks us through which plants are good, which plants are bad and why you should be threatening your fruit trees!

    35 min
  • Episode 37 - Theatre Superstitions

    "All the world's a stage, and the men and women merely players..." 

    Like our pal Billy Shakespeare said, Theatre is pretty cool.  Erin gets to the bottom of well known superstitions about working in and enjoying the theatre like "Break a leg," and the ghost light and finishes off with a little ghost story from New York.

    22 min
  • Episode 36 - Wishing Wells

    When you wish upon a...well?

    Wishing wells date back all the way to the early Roman empire.  Amanda hosts this episode and takes us on a history lesson about the origin of the wishing well, and also shares with us that she has a bizarre phobia of tiny holes.

    17 min
  • Episode 35- Chopsticks

    Feeling hungry?  Grab those chopsticks and keep them side by side as you listen to Tammy tell you why they can be good luck, bad luck or predictive of future happiness.


    Up the ante by eating stir-fry (Erin's favorite) while you listen to the episode.

    26 min
  • Episode 34 - Pregnancy Superstitions

    If you can overlook the bad Gone with the Wind Reference, this week Erin talks international pregnancy superstitions, how to know if you're having a boy or a girl and Chinese Gender Prediction Calendars.

    29 min

About Salt Over Your Shoulder

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Three Irish Cajun Millennial cousins dive headfirst down the rabbit trail to uncover the history behind common superstitions