Any FUNNY BELIEF in your country to share?

if wanna spend the night in a garden or a jungle, u must say "excuse me" so the ghosts in that place dont mad to you.... and if u wanna pee on the tree, u must say "excuse me" too so the ghosts (again...!) dont mad to you....

What about using an itchy powder on your left palm so that you will be scratching it whole and will get more money in the days to follow! We have a belife that if a glass gets broken in the morning then somethig bad will certainly happen in the remaining of the day. So, we are very cautious with glasses in every morning. I think this way we can preserve our glass vessels. Right now I can recall only this. We have many!

I'm from South India too....Kerala. In our part, there is a belief that if you hand over curry leaves to a person directly, both of them would end up fighting.

Ya i am living in south India but i am from North India.Ya there are many funny beliefs like: 1) When ever a crow sound comes then peoples say some relatives will come to our house. And all you discribed .

i am from south india and there is a crow which is completely black and if we saw such crow,we have to knock on our heads 3 times orelse the crow will come and cut and pick ur head and go during ur wedding

This discusion is very interesting dalia. I'll just list down a few i remember (I'm from South India too and my husband is very very superstitious) - 1. According to my husband wearing a black undergarment wards off eveil for him! 2. Before they leave their house they will wait for the right person to cross them. Like a widow, or a single brahmin crossing them is considered unauspicious (I personally hate this becoz how can a person affect you day!^$#%^^*&) 3. 3 is considered very unlucky. You should not buy anything in 3, 3 ppl travelling is considered a bad omen, you should not gift anyone anything that is 3 like 3 bangles, etc, etc! 4. If you keep two brooms together then you will for sure have a baby girl (my MIL believes that!) 5. Men inthe house are not supposed to clean their plates (thats my MIL's addition!) 6. Women should not go out after 6 inthe evening, that brings ill luck! 7. We indian's, especially south indian, treat tuesdays and fridays as very special days of everyweek. So we are not supposed to shave, remove cob webs, cut nails on these days. 8. Taking head bath with oil on Mondays means you are insulting Lord Shiva (that's my mom's favorite) 9. Anything that you do on saturday, good or bad, repeats during the next week. (I love this - i always try new cloths on saturday and believe it or not i end up geting/buying a new dress by next saturday!) 10. Do not pay anyone on friday or else you end up draining your whoel saving! What i believe is that most of such beliefs was created to simply create a discipline in the olden times. But they have actually influnced our mind. Have you anytime felt doing the opposite of what you are told (like cutting your nails on a friday and then feeling guilty about it, pondering over your mistake and finally you end up doing some stupid and you have an incident to blame! Rather than building a strong society these personally have weakened individual minds and people strickly abide by them just to avoid trouble. Even those who dont actually believe in many such things fall victims to it simply because of their up bringing. I'll surely add a few more to the list once i recall them :)

of course there are a lot of funny things to talk about here in our country like for example the foods ...some areas/location here in our country do not eat this kind of food..and some part will be said to be be their favorite..like the following most often people here in our place eat flowers of gumamela, ricefield rats, flower of vegetables, cassava leaves and skin of banana..this sound so weird and it's a lot funny for most people who learn that there are creatures on earth eating a kind of food like this.

Here's a few more funny beliefs from the Philippines. 1. Don't sweep the floor at night, it's akin to sweeping the luck out of your house. 2. Don't trim your fingernails at night, it will cause misfortune to your family. 3. When someone sneezes when you are about to leave the house, wait for a few minutes before leaving as it's a sure sign of badluck. There's a lot more, but most of them are similar to some other's beliefs as well.

If a maiden sings while cooking, she'll marry an old man.

Hi daliaj 1 If your ears are itchy then someone is talking about you right for spite left for love 2 If your left palm itches then you will pay out some money. 3 If your right palm itches then you will receive money. 4 A loud unexpected sneeze by yourself and you will soon have an argument. 5 Spiders will only live in a happy home. Funny beliefs yes but they help keep families together. As my mother used to say.

Hello, Here in ireland we have one that if you walk under a ladder you will have bad luck. I belived it ontill i stepped out onto the road to avoid walking under one and i never got run over by a car so i don,t belive that one anymore. We have this one that if you see a magpie you have to get someone to pinch you or you will get bad look if you see a second one you don,t. And theres this one if you spill sait on the table you have to get some and trow it over you left shoulder for good look if you don,t theres going to be a fight. And theres this one if you walk in dog poo your going to come into money now i don,t belive that one because i have a dog and i step in it nearly every day and belive me i have no money thats way i am here. And this if you drop a table spoon on the floor theres going to be a tall man knocking on the door. Well thats all i know my friend take care.

oooh.. we have lots of that in the Philippines like... 1. Giving of "arinola" (chamberpot) as wedding gifts will give the newlyweds good luck. 2. You should open all your doors and windows during New Year's Eve to let in good luck. 3. If you get a fish bone stuck in your throat, you should stroke it with a cat's paw to loosen the bone. 4. If you see plastic flying in the air, you should catch it to make you strong. 5. If lightning strikes a tree, you should get the "Eye of the Lightning" at the top of it to make you stronger. 6. If you're sweeping at night, you should say excuse me to the spirits you might be hitting.

1. if your under lips tuck we believe that you will get delicious food from another man. 2. if the butterfly come to your guests room we believe that we will get visited by our near family or friend 3. if we see the comet fly in the sky for couple of days we believe that crowded will happen in country do you believe it....

Well up here north you are not supposed to plant a chilly plant or a thorny plant inside the house premises. It brings negative energy.

Dear friend, There are lots of funny belief but apart from this I feel the law here in our country that is age old, that too very old during the Britishers colonial rule is still continuing especailly the family law in India. Here it is seen that the father do not have any right to be with his childern particularly if he has a girl child or he has produce solid proof of that the person whom he married is either have mental problem or illegal affairs. But the father has to give the remmuneration and expenses of the child and his wife. But very rarely allows to see his childern. May be it is really funny for me who has faced this funny law.

I live in Gujarat here we have a belief that if you hand over salt to some person there going to be fight between you. And about itching in the palms we have reverse belief than you for the right hand itching you are going to get money and for the left hand itching you are going to loos money. For old footwear we use to throw them outside on tuesday and saturday only by doing this we believe bad time "panvati" goes away.

1. if you put on your wedding dress before your wedding day, your wedding will not push through. 2. if you sleep with a wet hair, you'll get bald..

In India we have many beliefs such as: 1.If a cat crosses the road,then the first person crossing the path will meet an accident. 2.If a person pronounce the word snake,then a snake really enters the house.. And the list goes on....

There are a lot at our place....Well I dont recollect all of them...but I will try!!! 1.Dont touch any wounds with index finger, it will get septic..... 2.Dont eat non-veg on Sundays, you will become something called street beggars in your next life... 3.Fold your hands vertically, if there are any openings then you are a money spender....!!! 4.See a cat crossing your path, you will have a bad day.... etc etc....there are a load of such things here..... ~Cheerio~

I think this is a very interesting and curious post. I like to know more about other countries traditions. Like some of you, we also say that if your hand is itching, you will get large amounts of money, probably winning some lottery or similar. The one I wanted to mention is that if you have a whistling sound in your ear, someone is talking about you. When kids, we used to count start saying the alphabet and stop at the letter when the whistling sound stops. Then whichever letter you stop at, you should think about a person's name you know that starts with that letter and probably that person would be the one talking about you.