Strange SuperStitions, 0: Options

[Eww]

After I got my bangs cut a few months ago, my Grandmother said I shouldn't because of this Chinese superstition


She said, you've got 3 lights, one on your forehead, and one on each of your shoulders. They help you see the ghosts, and ghosts fear you for the light. Since I have bangs, she says it's covering one of my flashlights and it isn't good and I'll be attacked by ghosts or something in the future o__o;.

What are some strange superstitions you've heard of?

[S-Majere]

That's so creepy.

The usual for me - walking under a ladder gives bad luck, walking through a graveyard at night after the gates are barred curses you (0_o), opening umbrellas indoors, touching wood for good luck...

[superstitious]

Odd numbers. Good things happen with odd numbers, not so good with even.

Also, my pen has to match what I'm wearing or I can't relax, for fear that something is wrong. It's nothing major, I just typically use black pens unless I'm wearing blue. If I'm wearing blue I must use a blue pen or something bad will happen.

Broken mirors freak me out.

I have OCD type behaviors, so I'm not sure how much is supersition and how much is just odd OCD like patterns. (I don't consider myself "OCD" nor have I been diagnosed as such, I just have some things that I'm peculiar about).

[Eww]

YEAH. THAT FENG SHUI THING, LOL.


Also, my grandma's big about sleeping with mirrors in the room
and she says it's bad to have two windows facing each other. Gramma says it means you're losing all your money o.o

[libertie]

I don't have any superstitions that I observe consciously, but I'm sure there are some things that I do without really thinking.

I'm a big freak over symmetry/balance, though. If I tap one of my fingers on the desk, the other nine fingers must do the same thing. If I'm walking left, right, on the sidewalk and step with my right foot onto the grass, I get all weird because now I'm uneven. When I step back onto the sidewalk, I have to step with my right foot first to even it back out. Unless it's awkward, though, I try to subtly make sure my right foot touches the sidewalk before stepping out onto the grass with my left foot (wtf). I used to be much worse about it, like if one of my arm muscles twitched the other arm would have to do it, too. I convinced myself that it was weird and was able to suppress that need somehow.

..this all sounds so weird now. =x But yeah, it's not a superstition, it's just an eccentricity, I think.

[rnicron]

I don't have any superstitions that I observe consciously, but I'm sure there are some things that I do without really thinking.

I'm a big freak over symmetry/balance, though. If I tap one of my fingers on the desk, the other nine fingers must do the same thing. If I'm walking left, right, on the sidewalk and step with my right foot onto the grass, I get all weird because now I'm uneven. When I step back onto the sidewalk, I have to step with my right foot first to even it back out. Unless it's awkward, though, I try to subtly make sure my right foot touches the sidewalk before stepping out onto the grass with my left foot (wtf). I used to be much worse about it, like if one of my arm muscles twitched the other arm would have to do it, too. I convinced myself that it was weird and was able to suppress that need somehow.

..this all sounds so weird now. =x But yeah, it's not a superstition, it's just an eccentricity, I think.

That's called OCD.

[libertie]

^I have a lot of OCD-like peculiarities, but I'm not sure I'd diagnose myself with OCD, exactly. xD

[Reidar]

Rain comes from God crying at something you did again.

That's what my dad used to tell me.

[Sprague]

My mom has that superstition, too! It must be an asian thing. =P

I also follow such things as not opening umbrella's indoors, walking under ladders, knocking on wood, putting leaves from this tree in the Philippines in my back pocket to ward off spirits, etc. Lots of crazy superstitions from the asian culture, and I was brought up to believe most of them. :|

(My mom also practices feng shui, so she gets mad if I put my room out of the order she placed it in. This is bad luck for this, bad luck for that, blah blah) My friend also hangs up grapes above all his doors for the New Year, which is a superstition said to bring money to their household.

[Sprague]

We had something similar to what you did for your grandpa's. Although, instead of wrapping it in white paper, we just let the money drop. And people in their houses threw some at us too, but we weren't allowed to pick it up either, or some curse or whatever would be set upon you.

That also reminded me of when you leave the cemetary after a funeral -- my mom told me we're not supposed to look back no matter what, or else the soul of the corpse (friend or foe) would follow you home and haunt you.

Oh, and don't get me started on such ghost stories/superstitions led unto them, such as the White Lady or capree's, etc. Lol. =s

[The-March-Hare]

Odd numbers. Good things happen with odd numbers, not so good with even.

Also, my pen has to match what I'm wearing or I can't relax, for fear that something is wrong. It's nothing major, I just typically use black pens unless I'm wearing blue. If I'm wearing blue I must use a blue pen or something bad will happen.

Broken mirors freak me out.

I have OCD type behaviors, so I'm not sure how much is supersition and how much is just odd OCD like patterns. (I don't consider myself "OCD" nor have I been diagnosed as such, I just have some things that I'm peculiar about).

I've always liked even numbers...

Bad luck in cards = Good luck in love. Especially when playing strip poker.

[aaayotiffany]

my mom always told me not to buy shoes around chinese new year. lmfao. i know, weird. she also told me that shaking my leg will "shake away" all my luck. there's also the having black nail polish on around new years. and being in a bad/negative mood on new years day will foreshadow your bad/negative year.

my mom is sooo superstitious.

[lkajsfklajskds]

dont step on a book
your bed has to face the north
opening umbrellas indoors
cutting your nails at night
whistling inside the house
when getting fresh rice from the rice cooker, dont take the rice out from the top. dig until you get to the middle.


thats just how us neps rolll

[Flaunted]

my mom always told me not to buy shoes around chinese new year. lmfao. i know, weird. she also told me that shaking my leg will "shake away" all my luck. there's also the having black nail polish on around new years. and being in a bad/negative mood on new years day will foreshadow your bad/negative year.

my mom is sooo superstitious.

Ours is we can't buy shoes after chinese new years because 'shoe' in cantonese sounds the exact same as 'rough.' So they don't want you to have a "rough" start to your new year.

And the leg bouncing habit thing is the same with my family, they say you're just horny, haha when I told my boyfriend that, he does it everytime I'm sitting on him.

[fagget]

My mom always told me to not step on pillows, because it's a signal you send to the monsters under your bed to come out.

But I think she just said that to scare me and get me to stop stepping on pillows.
Not exactly a superstition.

[jaeman]

The only ones I really live by today are to not walk under ladders, breaking mirrors, and opening umbrellas indoors.

[libertie]

Bad luck in cards = Good luck in love. Especially when playing strip poker.

LOL!

[mizzkewl06]

when i was younger my mom would jokingly say that if my feet were to ever get "swept" by a broom i'd marry an old man. at first i thought she was just joking about people believeing in that but then one time i accidently brushed the broom against one of my cousin's feet and she totally freaked out and told me that it was bad luck and that it was going to be my fault if she married an ugly old man. 0_o i thought it was funny.

[DoubleJ]

I am a firm believer in not opening umbrellas indoors.

When I was in 5th grade I did it, and the same night, I burned the skin off of my hand with boiling water.

[Eww]

when i was younger my mom would jokingly say that if my feet were to ever get "swept" by a broom i'd marry an old man. at first i thought she was just joking about people believeing in that but then one time i accidently brushed the broom against one of my cousin's feet and she totally freaked out and told me that it was bad luck and that it was going to be my fault if she married an ugly old man. 0_o i thought it was funny.

AHAHAHA. That is so funny :D

[datass]

but chinese looks so cute in bangs

i know that youre not supposed to open an umbrella indoors (not that you need to in the first place) because ghosts hide under them.

youre not supposed to gift clocks because it means to wish them death. shoes are not good too.

your bed should not be the first thing someone sees when they walk into your room.

do not step on a tombstone.

youre also not supposed to put out your photos, cuz that's what you do with dead people.

and writing people's name in red means they will die soon.

[mizzkewl06]

youre not supposed to gift clocks because it means to wish them death. shoes are not good too.

would it be okay if you give someone a wrist watch???

[Insurmountable]

Don't step on graves, don't walk under a open ladder, etc etc.

That Chinese one is different, never heard of it.

[Eryi]

If you write your or your friend's name in red, that person'll die.

[Eww]

If you write your or your friend's name in red, that person'll die.