SUPERSTITIONS

Each country has its own superstitions based on their history, their beliefs, their culture and their religion. 

           

 

Although it sound ridiculous to some, for the inhabitants of their respective country is something we have grown and now part of them.

Russia

Dont put the money in the hand 

Russians have many superstitions about money. For example, a driver may reject or dependent who wants to give the money in hand and ask you to place it on the dashboard or in a special tray tackle box. This does not mean at all that displeases them in touch with their hands. On the contrary, it is believed that money can transmit energy possessor even negative energy. Once the passenger has left the vehicle or the buyer has been out of the box, the energy loop will be broken and someone else can take the money without any fear.

If a bird poops on your home, you will be rich

if a bird poops on you, your car or your house is a sign of good luck and wealth can bring.

Step to another person

if someone steps on someone else, this should return the stomp, because if not done, it is believed that these people are going to fight. The same is believed that if you pass the salt on hand to another.

England

The passage of an ambulance

Late last century it was said that children in England London coat collar rose when they saw an ambulance and they said: ¨ Grab your neck. Do not swallow. ¨ pilles never fever.¨ Part of the ritual consisted in holding your breath and squeeze the nose with  two fingers until a black or brown dog looked. All this ancient and terrifying remoras superstition came from the Black Death ¨ ¨ malefica and whipping it caused in the population.

Dont eat lettuce if you want to have children

In the 19th century, English men avoided eating salads if they wanted to start a family. The Oxford Dictionary of Superstitions suggests that lettuce was detrimental to procreate because it was a "sterile" and assumed that plant could also affect humans.

An awkward silence means you are going an angel

This rather whimsical explanation for a pause in the conversation is attributed to the writer Dylan Thomas with his "Portrait of the Artist" which features the line "A multitude of angels must be happening ... What's silence". 

Mexico

Something old, Something new, Something borrowed and Something blue

No one knows when the custom of the bride, her wedding day, take "something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue" began. Something Borrowed represents the present, the past, something old, something new future and something blue symbolizes purity.

The league destination

The league destination Warn your fiance can not, for any reason, drop your league as you remove it during the marriage, or the marriage will be cursed forever.

Touching wood

Touching wood has its origin in the wood of the Holy Cross and the veneration of which has been the relics of driftwood it. It is also said that the origin of the superstition is among the pagan customs of the Druids and magicians of old, who turned to wood as a "ground" for the bad vibes. This latest version is the requirement that when you touch wood it should not have "legs", ie, they are not worth no tables, no chairs ...

Japan

The Maneki-neko

The Maneki-neko (招き猫?) (In Japan), also known as "lucky cat", is a popular Japanese sculpture, which is said to bring good luck to its owner. The sculpture depicts a cat, particularly the Japanese bobtail breed, in an attitude of greeting call and not as most people think (this is because the East does not shake hands in position of flexion and supination-Western, but in a prone position and flexion).

Keep your thumbs if you walk in a cemetery

If you walk through a cemetery, has to put his thumbs in his pants to protect their parents. This is because the Japanese word for thumb literally translates as "parent-finger", and the hide is protecting her parents' death.

Sleep with head facing north

You should never sleep with his head facing north or you run the risk of having a short life as it is in this way that the bodies are aimed at funerals

Spain

Dont give scissors

You should not give away or knives or scissors, cut the link for that and friendship with both people. The most common is that the person receiving the gift, the other a coin, even a penny, but do not accept it without anything in return.

Catch a leaf

Catching a leaf in autumn If a tree is losing its leaves and catch one while you fly, you will get rid of the flu throughout the winter.

Eating grapes at midnight

On the eve of New Year in Spain, and other countries, the superstitious eat twelve grapes at midnight for good luck during the 12 months