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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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slurpee Indian [/ QUOTE ] 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. [/ QUOTE ] 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... [/ QUOTE ] 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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[ QUOTE ] You must have missed the Iraqi female circumcission thread... [/ QUOTE ] 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. [/ QUOTE ] 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.
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