Show Superstitions About Shoes Many superstitions are connected with shoes It Is thought unlucky to put either shoe on the wrong foot Because Because Be Bc- cause Augustus Caesar was nearly assassinated assassinated as as- by a mutineer one day when he put on his left shoe first a sa saying has arisen n that the right shoe must be put on first uRless Its owner wishes to court misfortune Pythagoras the theold theold theold old Greek sage told his disciples to put their left foot Into their baths first In Saxon Anglo-Saxon marriages the father father- ir law In law gave the brides bride's shoe to the bridegroom who touched her on the head with it to denote his lordly au an- At one time time time-In In the fourteenth or fifteenth century people century people wore the points or beaks benks of their shoes so 80 long that they tumbled over them when they walked and were forced to tie them to their knees by laces or chains |