9th Grade C Superstitions by Emilia Alejandra González Taboada

Mexico

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-04-30 18:10:58 UTC

If you´re pregnant and there is a full moon and you put a pin in your belly, the baby won´t be deformed.

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-04-30 18:40:12 UTC

This superstition was created in Mexico, more expecificly in a area of Ocuituco. This belief reffers to damage can cause to a pregnant women be exposed to a eclipse or a full moon, because the people belived that is the cause of deformed children. They associated this belief with a strange theory of (hot-cold) or a disease called “loss of shadow”

China

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-05-02 18:22:28 UTC

India

carolinavalenzuela13 — 2024-05-02 18:29:14 UTC

If you are going to visit a sick person, do not bring them red flowers, or they will die.

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-05-02 18:32:08 UTC

In China culture the red flowers symbolize blood and lost of the life. For this reason the hospitals are usually white and blue.

If you go to the beauty salon on thursday or saturday, you will have a bad luck

carolinavalenzuela13 — 2024-05-02 18:34:27 UTC

In India, if you cut your hair or your nails on Thurdays or Satudays you will have bad luck, because any physical changes on these days make planet saturn angry (one of the main planets according to Indian beliefs).

Ireland

carolinavalenzuela13 — 2024-05-02 18:38:19 UTC

If you find a clover with 4 leaves, you will have good luck

carolinavalenzuela13 — 2024-05-02 18:43:40 UTC

People in Ireland, based a Celtic tradition from the 1600s, believed that four leaves clovers were charms that will protect them from bad luck. the four leaves represented faith. hope, love and success

Italia

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-05-07 17:35:05 UTC

If you put a hat on your bed, you will have bad luck.

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-05-07 17:37:11 UTC

according to the ancestors. when you put a hat on your bed, makes reference to the last rites of Italian priests, who visited people on their deathbeds.

Egypt

2024-05-07 17:46:21 UTC

France

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-05-07 17:51:31 UTC

if you put money on your bed, the money will be spent soon

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-05-07 17:53:09 UTC

This supersticion it was created by the ancient poor people of France. They thought their money would run out quickly, if they slept with him nearby.

If you pin the bride's shoulder, the couple will have a good marriage

2024-05-07 17:53:34 UTC

In Egypt, a particular wedding tradition consists of pinching the bride on he wedding day, by the women invited to the celebration. This is a sing of luck

Britain

2024-05-07 17:56:15 UTC

Corea

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-05-07 18:00:06 UTC

if you touch a butterfly and then you touch your eyes, you will be blind.

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-05-07 18:01:30 UTC

The ancient monks had a great rejection of insects, they believed that they were not as cute as they seemed and that is why they had to be careful with them.

If you drop a fork, you will be visited by a man soon

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-05-07 18:09:39 UTC

This superstition only works for single women. It begins in the neighborhood gossip of adult women, who were desperate to find a husband.

Brasil

emiliagonzaleztab — 2024-05-07 18:10:03 UTC

If you touch wood, you will reject back luck

2024-05-07 18:10:31 UTC

A cording to different cultures, (mainly in Britain), touching wood was a sign of rejecting bad spirits. Some indicate that it is related to wooden crucifixs. Others, believed that the origin came from British game called " Tiggy touchwood" in which kids were safe in the game, everytime they touched wood