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Oh god, I don't want to know either! I don't know about popular figure skating superstitions, but whenever I catch myself falling into a personal one I deliberately try to counter it. For instance I noticed that whenever I had a bad fall I was wearing my glove with the tag on the right hand, which got me paranoid about always wearing the tag on the left instead. So I cut off the tag so I wouldn't know. I've read about skaters always putting on the left (or right) skate first, and have since made sure to do it both ways!
I was listening to MAnleywoman Skatecast for Carol Heiss Jenkins, and apparently all the top coaches have a superstition about where they stand at the boards when they watch their skaters compete (or practice at a comp). If the skater does well they stay in that position at the boards, if the skater does poorly they have to move .