20 years ago in America.
One very old woman told me someone who opens umbrella in a room will be suffered from unhappiness for three years and it's true.
True superstition?
She must have wanted to say that the superstition is true. Not the contents of the superstition is.
Hmm - didn't she want to say that it would really happen, i.e. she honestly believed it?
ReplyDeleteI had an aunt who believed a lot of such things. If you gave away a knife as a e.g. birthday present, you'd cut the friendship. And a wallet given away had to have a coin in it, if not all the money the receiver put in it would get lost. And ten more, at least. I think she even had a variety of your umbrella one. Funny.
I understand the more people have superstitions, the less they are civilised.
ReplyDeleteSuperstitions are simply untrue, but in less civilised society they have influenced a lot every nook and cranny in life.
Superstitions often survive over generation to generation, so those who have the same superstitions can trace back to their common ancestor.
Well, civilized -? Less educated people are more superstitious, I think. My aunt had only basic education, and she was born in 1899. My mother, who was younger and had learned more, laughed at her.
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