Weird cultural superstitions.
 

I learned at lunch today from my Indian friend (slurpee Indian, not casino Indian) that according to Indian tradition, if you pass salt hand-to-hand to one another, it means you'll get in a fight with that person.

So you have to put the salt down, then the other guy picks it up.

What other bizarre superstitions are there for various cultures?

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Don't pour out hot water or the Jin will curse your family or kill your children... or something. and i'm pretty sure jin is wrong, but similar to that.

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Is he from the 7-11 tribe?

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On Okinawa (maybe mainland Japan too) it's bad luck to leave chopsticks stuck in a bowl of rice.

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sounds like Indian's are [censored] retarted.

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sounds like Indian's are [censored] retarted.

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It's about as retarded as holding your breath as you pass a cemetary, thinking you'll get bad luck if you walk under a ladder, break a mirror, or a black cat crosses your path, thinking a horseshoe or rabbit's foot will give you good luck, thinking that stepping on a spider will bring rain, throwing salt over your shoulder when you spill it, etc...etc...

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You must have missed the Iraqi female circumcission thread...

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You must have missed the Iraqi female circumcission thread...

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I think it got removed for some strange reason.

And female circumcision is a cherish cultural tradition, not a silly superstition. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

A related superstition is the belief that wearing a necklace made of circumcised clitorises will bring good luck, however.

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You must have missed the Iraqi female circumcission thread...

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I think it got removed for some strange reason.

And female circumcision is a cherish cultural tradition, not a silly superstition. [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

A related superstition is the belief that wearing a necklace made of circumcised clitorises will bring good luck, however.

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I asked for weird superstitions. Who doesn't have a clit necklace?

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The father of modern Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (kind of like their George Washington) is supposed to have said on his deathbed that he would be reincarnated as a cat, and would bite the heel of his chosen successor. So most Turks would actually like to be bitten on the heel by a stray cat.