How superstitious are you? Here is a checklist.
Check those items which have scientific bases to qualify them outside the realm of superstition.
- Angalo is the legendary friendly giant among the Ilocanos.
- 2. Avoid laughing when planting kamote otherwise the roots will become liplike.
- Bathing the cat will cause rain.
- Bats swoop on unwary people.
- Bite your finger after you have pointed at somebody, so that the blame will not boomerang.
- Black ants on lansones means the fruit is sweet.
- Bringing salt under a sour fruit-bearing tree will cause the fruits to fall.
- One can read how nature intended plants to be used by examining their resemblances and other physical characteristics.
- Cassava grown from inverted cutting is poisonous.
- Cat grooming at the doorway tells of visitors coming.
- Cockroaches eat on anything - almost.
- Conceiving mother who gets near a fruiting tree causes its fruits to fall prematurely.
- Eating shark influences human character with the animal’s behavior.
- Food offering on special occasions is homage to the spirits.
- Fruit trees watered with sugar solution bear sweet fruits.
- Garlic drives the aswang away.
- Hanging bottles on the trellis of gourd plants induces fruiting.
- Harelip or cleft lip is the result of an accident when the baby was still in the womb.
- If a Fortune plant received as a gift bears flowers, it is a sign of good luck.
- Inadvertently wearing reverse clothes leads one to marry a widow or an old maid.
- It’s customary to first spill a little of your wine in deference to the spirits.
- It’s lucky to find a four-leaf clover.
- Kugtong or giant lapulapu – does it really exist?
- Mother who eats twin bananas will bear twin children.
- Mothers place the extracted tooth of their children under the pillow or mat so that the good tooth fairy will come and replace it.
- Nakakapagpagaling ang laway sa nausog (A little saliva relives someone who was chanced upon by the unseen.)
- Old folk’s advice: Don’t forget to spit on the spot where you answered the call of nature.
- One who is fond of rice crust (tutong) is lazy.
- Papaya planted in front of a house brings bad luck.
- People with large ears live long.
- Place the first fruits harvested from a plant in a large container and pretend to carry them as if they were very heavy so that the plant will be heavy with fruits.
- When planting a tree seedling, avoid looking up so that the plant will not grow very tall. Stoop when planting coconut so it bears nuts early.
- Chicken soup is best for convalescent.
- Rice is the first thing to carry with when moving to a new house.
- The balete (Ficus benjamina) is the home of bad spirits which cause those who go near the tree to become sick. ~
All of the above items are superstitious beliefs.
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