Beliefs on Ghost, Spirits and Witches

1. If one passes through the window instead of the door, a ghost will come.

2. When two dogs bark at night there is a ghost.

3. Before six o’clock at night, children should be in the house or else they may bump into a person without a head.

4. When one passes by an anthill, one should ask to be excused,
otherwise, a spirit will play tricks on that person.

5. A person who always uses a bandage on Fridays is a witch.

Break Up of Relationships

1. No marriage should take place except during the period of the full moon. It is the belief that good fortune comes only during that period.

2. Giving religious articles to one’s sweetheart will cause breaking up of the relationship.

3. If a person gives another a pair of shoes as a gift, they will become enemies.

On War, Pestilence and Calamity

1. Appearance of a comet foretells war, pestilence and calamity.

2. When a star gets near the moon, it is an omen of war.

Other Superstitions and Beliefs

1. If a person bites his tongue, it means somebody is thinking of him.

2. A girl with white spots on her fingernails is inconstant in love.

3. It is bad to sweep the floor at six o’clock in the evening for it means driving away good fortune and graces.

4. It is bad to sweep the floor when there are people playing cards or gambling because luck is being swept away.

5. One should not open an umbrella while inside a house; a centipede is likely to fall from the ceiling and he will be bitten by it.

6. If a pregnant woman sews her dress while wearing it, her baby will be born without a hole in the rectum.

7. If a pregnant woman sits on the stairs, she will have a difficult time in delivering her baby.

8. If a pregnant woman wears a necklace or a choker, the umbilical cord of her baby will also be wound around its neck endangering its life.

9. If the direction of the wooden slats of a floor are not parallel to the stairs, good fortune will not come to the dwellers of the house.

10. If sweethearts give each other gifts like shoes or slippers, their relationship will not last long.

11. If a boy gives his sweetheart a necklace as a gift and the necklace is broken, it means that they are not meant for each other.

12. If the coffin of a dead person bumps against something during the funeral, someone will soon die.

13. If the coffin of a dead person is too big for his size, someone will also die soon.

14. In bringing the coffin down the house, the head should be the first so that the dead will have an easy journey to his destiny.

15. The dead in the coffin should face the rising sun upon interment so that his soul will not suffer very much.

16. If two sisters or two brothers get married within the same year, one will have a prosperous married life; the other, a sorrowful life.

17. If a couple receives a urinal as a wedding gift they wife have luck, prosperity and riches.

18. If a couple receives a crucifix as a wedding gift, they will have a peaceful relationship.

19. In a church wedding ceremony, the first of the couple to reach the altar and to go out of the church will be the dominant one.

20. If the veil sponsor in the wedding ceremony is still single, she is doomed to be an old maid.

21. He whose candle is put off during the wedding ceremony wifi die first.

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