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By (user no longer on site) 30 weeks ago
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I’m not superstitious but grew up in a VERY superstitious culture.
I don’t do these but grew up with these:
Every year, on New Year’s Eve I had to eat 12 grapes before midnight, walk around the main floor of our house with a suitcase, clean the house and especially sweep out the old year, wear red underwear, and throw out the broom of the previous year to replace it with a new broom for the new year. You also throw a bucket of water from a window in your house to throw out the old year. Everyone must throw out a bucket of water.
You live a lifetime on the lookout for the evil eye or “map de ojo”. There’s a belief held that there are people who are so jealous of you that their energy gets converted into some weird negative force field around you causing you recurring harm. You have to always be on the look out for this in life. To protect babies from the evil eye they wear a special bracelet with a black amber carved fist. Most wear them from the day they are born until they are toddlers. Many have more than one. No one can look at a baby’s face until they are a certain age or else they might get the evil eye and could be an ill tempered child.
If you wanted unwanted guests (or guests that had overstayed their original welcome) to leave you should place an upside–down broom by the door.
Dropping cutlery: Supposedly, if you drop a fork, a man will come to visit; drop spoon, a woman will come to visit and drop a knife, there will be a fight.
The rule of threes: Everything comes in threes; especially deaths.
Don’t open an umbrella or walk around with one shoe on in the house: There are a lot of rules as to what could be done inside the house and if these were violated very bad, bad things could happen. Opening an umbrella inside the house could lead to someone’s death. Wearing just one shoe could lead to the death one’s mother. My God, the guilt was laid on thick!
You have to be careful of looking in the mirror and combing your hair at night: I never understood this admonition. But it was one of the creepiest ones. You could see a person with red eyes staring back at you supposedly and that would mean you’d see someone burning or dying in a fire in the near future.
You can suffer bodily harm if you open the fridge with a hot head: Meaning that you should not open the refrigerator after showering or right after waking up because your body is warm in both instances.
If you dream about your teeth falling out while eating, it means someone is going to die: I actually had that dream a lot while I was growing up. Then I started dreaming that my teeth would fall out but I’d shove them back in to avoid the death of people. Creepy stuff!
Hiccups can only be cured with a string: To get rid of hiccups, use a small red thread with saliva placed on the forehead. This is especially done for babies.
A full glass of water behind the door will absorb bad spirits and energy in your house. You’d find most people have glasses of water by their front doors, and loads of candles too. Different types of candles to ward off all sorts of spirits and evil beings, energy, etc. This I believe has some spiritual beliefs behind it. My family never did this but culturally where I’m from this is the done thing.
If you have a nosebleed, put a penny on your forehead. The properties of copper have supposedly stop the nosebleed.
The number 21 is sacred. Too long a story but it’s related to baseball.
If you move house, you must leave a broom behind to not bring bad luck to a new house.
Instead of Friday the 13th being bad. Tuesdays that are the 13th of the Monday are the bad ones.
Lefties: not allowed in heaven. Lefties are actually by force made to cut, write, etc with their right hand in many households and schools.
On 1st of May: you must run to get wet. The first rainstorm on 1st of May you must get showered by for good luck.
If you live on a farm and have outdoor animals or even a pet, and wake up one morning and it’s dead the animal had its blood sucked out by a monstrous creature that attacks and sucks the blood of animals.
A purse can never ever touch the floor or you’ll be poor.
There’s plenty more too.
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