BLOG#4 Superstitions

SINGAPUR: The color red is good luck, long hair gives longevity, 

children should not play at night or will have nightmare.

BRASIL: Itching - His left hand is itchy? Then get ready for a good extra money.

 If the right hand is itchy beware: you will probably lose a lot of money.

 Itching in the sole of the foot means overseas trip.

Black Cat-In the Middle Ages, it was believed that cats were

 witches transformed into animals.

 So tradition says that a black cat crossing is misfortune in life. 

The Brazilians, however, have another version. 

When a black cat comes home is a sign of money coming.

Spiders - Spiders, crickets and lizards represent good luck to the home.

 Killing a spider can cause unhappiness in love.

ARGENTINA: The shoelaces-The breaking of a bond or a lace sandals or

 shoes in Rome today, causing a stumble, ie bad luck. 

There are nine steps to tie it before, but the unlucky last all day.

Broom-Brooms were long associated with witches. 

These came out flying towards covens in smeared with an 

evil broom ointment, with which also smeared hands, on the back or on the palms.

 But they also have meanings conttra protective witchcraft. 

For example, with the handle placed on the ground, preventing entry into the 

house of spells and witchcraft. 

Behind a door, upside down, prevents unwelcome visits or makes retire soon.

Mirrors-Dream of mirrors is a betrayal. children or virgins to which they are blindfolded and were placed in front of or behind a mirror bright metal, whether this copper, bronze, silver or gold were used. 

The consultant stared at the mirror surface, entering a kind of trance and conversed with the child or young virgin, through the questions posed by the Guesser.

ALEMANIA: 

Talismans and fears beyond 

Statistics show that 42% of Germans still believe in four leaf clover, 36% would like to meet occasionally with a chimney sweep and 40% believe in luck associated with a shooting star. And these trends have their logic. Find a four leaf clover is not easy and it found it, lucky you! found one among millions.

Also logic is the belief in luck that brings the sweep. In ancient times could be compared with the fortune knocks on a winter day. Someone had to put to work the fireplace. How not believe in the force that brought the sweep in the frigid German winter days?

The bad omens as those associated with the number thirteen are much feared. More than a quarter of the population does not rule out the effect of magic numbers. No joke with so many matches on this figure. According to some, at the Last Supper had 13 seats, the cabal he realized 13 spirits of evil, the coming of the Antichrist and the Beast are shown in Chapter XIII of the Apocalypse, and the tarot this digit refers to the dea.

    

MÉXICO: The rabbit's foot is believed-that the allocation of their magical powers because his figure was carved totems to symbolize protection. For this reason anyone who possessed any part of the animal would be protected from harm.

 Crossing fingers is said that this superstition away bad luck because it represents the cross of Christ.

Breaking a mirror-The Gentleman's Magazine mentions that the Romans believed that the health of a person changed every seven years. The mirrors, reflecting a person showed their health, so break it meant seven years of bad health.