Spitting
Greeks spit for a number of superstitious reasons, the most common is to keep evil away from you, for example, if you hear of someone speaking of misfortune or bad news and fear the possibility of the same thing happening to you, you would spit three times on your own person. Greeks say ” Ftise Ston Korfo Sou” or loosely translated, spit on yourself/your cleavage. it wards off the evil from coming to you. Spitting is also commonly used to avoid misfortune, so you don’t give the ‘evil eye’ to yourself or create a jinx .For example Greek fishermen will spit in their nets before lowering them into the sea to ward off evil and get a good days’ catch.