Cowboy Coffee Hour with Cowboy Kent and Shannon Rollins
Aug 30, 2026 · 57 min · 23 segments
Why are some of the toughest, most practical people also deeply superstitious? In this episode, we explore the strange cowboy superstitions and traditions that survived the Old West, from never…
Kent RollinsHost
Shannon RollinsHost
Hey, we thank y'all for joining us again this week, and I really am loving this episode that we're going to do today.
Especially if you go back to them old cowboys that was going down the trail in the 1870s and 80s.
But I don't think I've ever met a more superstitious crowd of people than true traditional old working cowboys and even some of the modern ones today.
Cowboy superstitions, not only modern day, but also ones that trace back into the early 1800s and that have traveled the trail and taken us all the way to today.
The old ones, the ones that still exist, and maybe even, Kent, the ones that you still are... practicing or following so today is all about superstitions of the old west and today i'm going to start off all right the biggest one i have and this is one of the first ones that you introduced me to and this is the cowboy hat on the bed
don't even say the words that's what is this one about well I was always taught, you come in a house, take your hat off, tip your hat to a lady, hang your hat up somewhere.
Yeah, but when you're putting your hat on a bed, And I was doing an interview with a guy many, many years ago in Branson.
And he come in and the first thing he did was take his hat off and lay it on the bed.
To me, I was always taught that that was a sign of the spirit of whoever had been on that bed.
Hey, we thank y'all for joining us again this week, and I really am loving this episode that we're going to do today.
Especially if you go back to them old cowboys that was going down the trail in the 1870s and 80s.
But I don't think I've ever met a more superstitious crowd of people than true traditional old working cowboys and even some of the modern ones today.
Cowboy superstitions, not only modern day, but also ones that trace back into the early 1800s and that have traveled the trail and taken us all the way to today.
The old ones, the ones that still exist, and maybe even, Kent, the ones that you still are... practicing or following so today is all about superstitions of the old west and today i'm going to start off all right the biggest one i have and this is one of the first ones that you introduced me to and this is the cowboy hat on the bed
don't even say the words that's what is this one about well I was always taught, you come in a house, take your hat off, tip your hat to a lady, hang your hat up somewhere.
Yeah, but when you're putting your hat on a bed, And I was doing an interview with a guy many, many years ago in Branson.
And he come in and the first thing he did was take his hat off and lay it on the bed.
To me, I was always taught that that was a sign of the spirit of whoever had been on that bed.
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