Fokelore customs: To dream up your spouse or other unusual customs.

Welcome my dear kitty, you sound the epitome of confusion today over this basil matter. Of course you can go ahead and try it, some believe it will actually work whereas I'm more of a sceptic myself. I suppose in the days that the sexes were more of less segregated apart from family members it gave hope and sweet dreams to some young girls.

Hello my friend I was asking because I need a husband just wondered if it will work for me lmaoo all in fun my friend

If I may intervene... kitty42, I'm the one that told Thea about this custom, and I'm sorry to say it won't work. This custom is meant only for the unmarried girls, I'm afraid it doesn't work once you got married. Plus, there are other details that need to be followed, such as the precise date when the ritual must be performed (it's only supposed to work on one night of the year), the time the basil bust be hand-picked by the girl performing the ritual, and so on...

Well Thea, I must say this custom is not spread around here, and I'm very happy it isn't... I think it's terrible for someone to sleep with their mother-in-law on the wedding night... And we all know how important these customs used to be... Ughhhh! It gives me the creeps!

Hi Capsi, that's a good tradition I never heard of before. It is similar to the tradition in Orthodox judaism of married people sleeping with a sheet between them with a strategically placed hole. You'll love this Greek tradition, also practiced in the last century. On the wedding night a Greek bride and groom do not sleep together but rather the poor bride has to share a bed with her new mother in law, to show her respect for who is really going to be the boss in this marriage. True.

So does that mean the Romanian mother in law was not the all powerful creature in the house the new bride was destined to inhabit? I think it's a hideous custom, but it probably just meant they slept next to each other on the floor as they didn't have beds then anyway.

I have no idea if the killing had to be at random. But I remember as a kid she always said that as her house had more than it's fair share of Daddy Long Legs Spiders. She was a 1st Generation German American so I don't know if it's from Germany or not. Though it's cute there's a spider that lives right at the bottom of my basement steps by the ceiling and my Daughter had asked me a bit ago to leave it til I could take her downstairs at night so we could get good luck. And man do we need good luck around here *LOL*

Well different traditions here on the merits of luck in killing or not killing spiders but then again two differnt countries are involved so that would feed the idea of a national superstition. So in Snuggle Bunnies case is one actively encouraged to go round hunting for a spider to kill at night or does the good luck come only if you kill one at random?

mine said it was bad luck to kill a spider...

Oh well, at least you get plenty of nice dreams.

Hello prinzcy, I just knew that this would be a custom somewhere else and not only do you know of it you actually practiced it. I've never heard of a saga tree or its seeds though. But if you saw a face in your dream and concluded it was a dream then surely it worked to some extent. I presume though it was not the face of the man of your future or you would be extolling the virtues of this tradition. Did you ever see the person who belonged to the face in your dreams though, I'm dying to know.

No, never meet any men like them (any men? that's because different guy show up for each dream) Even my exes look none like them. It's for fun not to be believe.

Hi sunny, of course you are not alone in India in having these traditions or superstitions, though it appears America does not have any. I like the one about spilling the glass of water means you are going to have guests, so you spill the water and then rush round clearing up in anticipation - but does it come true. Most of your others seem to involve warding off the evil eye which definitely comes down to superstition. I remember the one in 'Gone With the Wind' where the slave girl thinks that putting a knife under the mattress will cut the pain of labour in half. Your knife under the pillow reminded me of that one.

Come on sunny, you really should start a discussion on these practices yourself, you could title it 'Warding off the evil eye' or something. You do that and I'll be a straight along like a shot.

allow me to correct myself, its accidentally spilling a glass of water and not intentionally. yes, Indian peninsula in itself has many occult practices, so most such practices revolves around good luck and warding off evil. i personally have had more than fair share of coincidences with crows crowing (but still would like to keep an open mind). your mentioning of America does give me a thought, older societies have more such unusual practices than newer ones. so Americans may not be having such unusual practices but the same might not be true for native Americans (Red Indians).

Hi dbu, fokelore means something more like traditions or superstitions passed down through the ages so not unusual in the culture they are practiced in but unusual to other cultures. Certainly I have never come across the habit of sprinkling tumeric water around but it sounds like fun, I suppose that's a bit like the Western habit of throwing confetti around at a wedding.

Confetti is also there in the wedding and the birthday parties. Western culture is spreading fast, i agree. But this turmeric water is old style... Have a great day.

I guess there's a lot of them when you think about it. For example at a wedding, the girl who catches the bouquet and the guy who catches the garter are supposed to be the next ones to get married.

The guy and the garter must be an American thing, I've only heard about the bouquet before.

Happy sat. to u. Watching Tennessee & ky. playing football. We are winning, yea!!!! Go vols.Haven't felt good today so hadn't done much of anything. Trying to play catch-up on mylot. i am way behind. Sorry the waether is still awful.

Hi Aunty, hope you're having a nice Saturday, we're still floored with humidity this end. I actually think it's a shame that you don't have these old customs there, but maybe they took of more in these European and Asian countries where the sexes were generally segregated so the girls had to fuel their romantic ideas, I've just had a lovely response from a young lady in Malaysia who tried out a custom there for dreaming of a future husband. I never tried it myself by the way.

Hi Malpoa, they are indeed just superstitions but I think rather nice ones, as you must too as followed your heart and had your palm read over this matter. I've never done anything like that myself but in your case the palmist did read the truth. Did you believe that when you met your husband or just put it down to co-incidence?