International Superstitions
Carmen
Caffarena from Spain
Take Note if You're Getting Married in Spain
If a groom's friend cuts a piece of the groom's tie, he'll
get married soon.
If the bride wears something blue, she'll have a happy
marriage.
If the groom sees the bride's dress, she'll have bad luck
during the ceremony.
Turhan Ece from Turkey
Wedding Superstitions in Turkey
If you get married between two annual religious festivals
that are two months apart, you might be unlucky.
If you write the name of one of your friends under the sole
of your shoes in your wedding ceremony, and it is erased,
he/she will wed in a short period of time.
If you catch a candy which is thrown by the bride, you will
wed in a short period of time.
Minjung Song from Korea
They'll Have Daughters and Sons
If a bridegroom smiles a lot in a wedding, he will get a
daughter as a first child. If a bride takes some nuts, she
will get a lot of sons. (Traditionally, the parents of a
bridegroom throw nuts and plums to a bride after a wedding.
At that time, a bride puts nuts or plums in her shirt.)
Renata Pauperio from Brazil
How to Cause a Rainy Wedding Day
If a future bride eats directly from the pot, it will rain
on her wedding day.
Evelyn Infante from Venezuela, Setsuka Sendai from Japan,
and Hyun-Joo Kim from Korea, interviewed international
students to find out superstitions about weddings. This is
what they were told.
In Mexico, they say: If someone accidentally sweeps an
unmarried woman's shoes with a broom, she will never marry.
If a bride wears pearls, she will cry during her married
life because pearls means tears.
In Taiwan, they say: If a woman serves as a bridesmaid more
than twice, she will have bad luck.
In the U.S., Colombia, and Spain, they say: If the bride
wears something new, something old, and something borrowed;
she will have good luck.
In Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia they say: If the groom sees
the bride's wedding dress before their wedding, the bride
will have bad luck.
Afghan
Superstitions
A mag-pie is sitting
on the wall, some message might come to us.
Cover your bald head
or else it may start raining. :)
Don't beat against the
sandal, it might rain. (sandal is a popular means of keeping
families warm in winter. It consists of a wooden square table about
40cm high covered with a big cotton quilt, and charcoal fire
underneath in brazier.)
Don't click the
scissors, it brings about a fight.
Don't look at the new
moon in the face of a child, he may fall down.
He has got up from his
left side, (It is said to those who look anxious, unhappy, and
grim-faced).
I bit my tongue,
someone must be backbiting on me.
If the comb falls down
a guest will come.
If water (from a
bowel) spells out with a sound, it means that some guest will come.
If you arrive
somewhere at a time when others are just starting their meals it
means that you mother-in-law likes you very much.
If you draw lines on
the ground you will be in debt.
If you shake the bunch
of keys it might bring about a fight.
If you sit on the
threshold, your father will be in debt.
It is no good to cut
your tailoring on Tuesday.
My palm itches, I will
obtain some money.
My sole itches, I may
travel.
Some evil door rubbed
pig fat in her clothes and made her hateful to all.
Some one dropped
Myrobalan on her in her wedding night and made her hateful to her
husband.
Water throbbed in his
throat, who remembered him?
(Means someone is
either thinking of the person or the person's name is mentioned
somewhere)
Water was shed, it is
a good omen.
Your right eye-lash
throbbed you will face happiness.
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