Superstitions

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If the broom swept your foot you must spit on it or you won’t get married.
Break a mirror 7 years bad luck. Drop a fork someone coming for dinner.
Black cat crossing your path. Early Bird catches worms or you not as big as a grasshopper or knee high to a duck this was said when you did something grown. One bad apple, Birds of a feather flock together..So many more but here’ a sign off Since I don’t want to wake up on the wrong side of the bed….God’s Love & Blessings!

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It is seen as good fortune and a portence of rain.

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Curiosity. Unfortunately many get deceived to believe ad hoc ‘answers’ with no supporting proof.

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This one is my favorite: If you secretly put your toe-nail clippings in a glass of lemonade and make someone drink it, then that person is supposed to fall in love with you

Muslims call it the Hand of Fatima,
while Jews refer to it as the Hand of Miriam, hamsa hand or hamesh hand.
Both faiths, however, agree on its powers. The hand with the colored eye — found on necklaces, ornaments, stickers, etc. — will shield you from the powers of the evil eye.

Layer on the eyeliner and smoky eye shadow.
Ancient Egyptians believed that makeup prevented the evil one from entering your eyes.

Show the ‘horned hand.’
It looks like a secret greeting among Metallica-heads, but Italians do the mano cornuta for protection. To form the gesture, use your thumb to hold down your middle and ring fingers, then extend your pointer and pinkie like horns. Though this might ward off evil spirits, it could also attract heavy-metal rockers or University of Texas fans.

The reason we are encouraged to hold our hand over our mouth when we yawn so as not to let the Devil into our mouth

“knock on wood”. Supposed to keep the devils living in the wood from hearing your ill-considered idle comments

Breaking Mirrors = 7 years bad luck. Some time ago (ancient Romans, if I remember right), people believed that reflections were actually glimpses of the viewers soul. People had gazing pools in their gardens in which they could look at themselves. A really mean thing to do was wait until a person was gazing at their reflection and throw a stone in the water because the distruption of the reflection affected their soul and brought about bad luck. We don’t have gazing pools anymore, but the mirror breaking superstition still lives on

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Well to us Chinese there is a superstition that could link to this, when a person dies a person is buried. But there are cases that the body does not rot and fade to dust over time, due to geographic weather, bad feng shui and special cases. They remain preserved the same as it is when they were buried, the body becomes something like a living dead, neither living as a human, nor dead as a body. When this happens, it is said that it brings a curse that will harm its descendants, and they will die in a successive manner.

The way to stop it is to find the body of the ancestor whose body doesn’t rot and cremate it, but the catch is that there is a specific date and time that it should be dug out, perform a ritual/ceremony and have the body cremated. A feng shui master or those Chinese oracles otherwise known as a “fa shi” will know how to find the bad feng shui and calculate the time and date of cremation.

Perhaps it sounds weird, but such cases really exists. I’ve seen cases like this in the newspapers a few times already, and I think its really scary. Especially the part that the body never rots even after so many years when they dug the coffin up and opened it.

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Trying to abolish religion is like trying to abolish alcohol. It has been attempted ,but never successfully.
As a species, we have many forms of escape, some more benign than others. Reading a book, watching a movie. These are all ways of losing oneself to another experience; to vicariously feel what others in situations might feel.

Religion and alcohol are powerful forms of escape. In a poem by A.E. Housman, there is a telling line “ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink, for fellows whom it hurts to think.” The same can be said for religion

It is true that some parts of the more civilized world are more secular, so what you are suggestion is possible to some degree. But the values inherent in religion are so powerful that people, historically, and currently, have been and are willing to give up their lives to protect them. So, its a nice thought, but it won’t happen in my lifetime

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I am Indian. I am a Sikh. So i don’t have a hair cut. But i wash my hairs on any day. Never heard of that superstition.

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My mom just told me last night – if your big toes are outrageously big, that means you lose your father first…

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I’ve had about 10 episodes of these so far in my life. This can be very scary no matter how much you know what it is, same with nightmares. I can see though how one would think it’s some sort of entity or demon doing this. I know when I’m under stress without much sleep I will most likely have them. It’s not always the same thing people think it was some people claim it was an alien, some say a demon,other say someone was sitting on their chest, for me it was I felt like I was trying to get back in my body and I couldn’t quite get in there and I couldn’t move my body. But to answer your question yes it can explain some superstitions. It’s also funny how different parts of the world have their own superstitions.

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Yes most of them are ignorant. But Many of them are wonderful and have more knowledge of scriptures than Christians

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The world is a scary place. Anything that acts as a shield against that fear is embraced.

Perhaps there is a devil over your shoulder, so fling that spilled salt.

Red Skies at morning have brought storm clouds, so i need be wary.

When I rub my lucky rabbit’s foot, good things happen.

The drawback is that you may become a slave to these fetishes

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Teeth are used to bite, tear, chew and gnaw. In this regard, teeth symbolize power, this is why you may feel you have power and better in yourself because the teeth are a symbol of power.
Are you were you lacking power in some current/recent situation? Perhaps you are having difficulties expressing yourself or getting your point across not having the power to, this may be why these teeth have been brought to you.