Have you heard of all these interesting belief since you were born?
They all said,
If your left eye twitches, it means bad news. Right eye, good news.
Cutting nails after 9 pm is not allowed.
Only can use your thumb pointing at the moon, using other finger is not respect to God.
Don't bath straight after you have meals, you will get tummy.
Don't place your mirror in front of you sleeping bed, you will see ghost from that mirror.
Breaking a mirror mean 7 years of bad luck, accidentally breaking a mirror would mean a death to your family.
Taking picture with 3 person mean the third person will get bad luck.
Don't open umbrella in a indoor, they believe it will attract ghost.
Don't play instruments at night, cause it will attract ghost too.
For Chinese, they all said you can't put your chopstick straight in the bowl cause it mean that bowl is ready to serve for the ghost.
I have heard so many weird belief since young. I remember one of the most funny belief is when those little kid pee at the street, their mom will ask them say "excuse me " while they pee, it's like you excuse yourself to the ghost and spirit along the street.
I can't say all theses belief is belong to religion, region, or culture. Can't deny that some of the belief is really clueless, we heard of these belief from the adults, but they never explain the reason why. Sometimes I wonder, what would happen if someone in the world just create a belief simply because he or she is in phobia. Let's say the person is fear of height, then he or she spread to the world if you are standing at a balcony, you are not allowed to look down, you can only view horizontally, if not bad luck will comes to you, at the end everyone just follow this non-sense belief for century, this might happen right? No one knows. Is it possible to say cutting nails after 9 pm is not allowed because the person is too lazy to cut so they create this belief? Again, no one knows right?
Maybe we have so many belief that no one able to explain, is because the belief is just a joke or it really have a story behind but we didn't know.
Anyway, I do practice some of the belief from my parents like only use my thumb to point at the moon, because I want to respect God. Although I don't know the reason why, but I just followed this belief since young. sounds dumb but still..follow..HAHA.
What's the most unbelievable belief you have heard of? The most ridiculous? The most funny? And the most scary one? I find it is so interesting and amazing. This is part of my childhood memories. All these weird belief made us who we are today, and made the society what is it today.