Popular Superstitions: Putting on the left shoe before the right (colour litho)

Putting on the left shoe before the right. When Augustus Caesar was told that a mutiny had broken out amongst his soldiers, and that his life was in danger, he imputed it to the circumstances of having that morning put on his left sandal before the right. The belief that it is unlucky to put on the left shoe or stocking before the right is thus of great antiquity, and is founded upon an even older belief that our right-hand side is lucky, and our left unlucky, because evil spirits which may work harm upon us stand at our left shoulders. Illustration for one of a set of 25 cigarette cards on the subject of Popular Superstitions issued by Godfrey Phillips in 1930.