Comments on: Bad Luck

By: Prashanth Akunuri

Prashanth Akunuri — Sun, 08 Dec 2013 11:36:00 +0000

In reply to kuristee. @prashanthaku

By: Raine

Raine — Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:50:00 +0000

In reply to Nina. That's an American superstition, too! Seven years bad luck!

By: kuristee

kuristee — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 04:36:00 +0000

In reply to Prashanth Akunuri. Or we could use twitter! Do you have twitter? :) Mine's the same as my username here.

By: Danika

Danika — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 08:11:00 +0000

In Brazil when you hear a lot of dogs barking and howling at the same time, my mother says it is an omen of death. As if someone you knew was going to die. The weirdest is that a few days later comes the bad news that really happened.

By: Prashanth Akunuri

Prashanth Akunuri — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 16:10:00 +0000

In reply to kuristee. hahaha! I don't know if there's a pm option but I guess u can pm me on fb as my full name is already present here :)

By: kuristee

kuristee — Thu, 28 Nov 2013 15:45:00 +0000

In reply to Prashanth Akunuri. :P I actually want to know! Care to share? Is there a PM option using Disqus? :D

By: Nic (MyKoreanHusband)

Nic (MyKoreanHusband) — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 04:39:00 +0000

In reply to Andrew Watson. wow!

By: Andrew Watson

Andrew Watson — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 00:41:00 +0000

I grew up on a ranch in what is now Zimbabwe. My father was incredibly superstitious, especially when they were African customs. Don’t keep a tortoise in captivity: it won’t rain if you do. A balancing rock:don’t knock it over unless you want bad luck. Don’t give something a different name: something bad will happen to it. Our foreman’s teenage son used to watch over me and make sure I didn’t get into trouble–but if I did, he’d invent some superstition to lessen my punishment or make a good omen out of it to try and get me off the hook. Sometimes it worked. The rest of the employees on the ranch all chipped in too. What, he shot a go-away bird (grey loerie)? That means the cattle will grow fat. Once when I was about 7 years old I spilled a can of blue paint in the garage. Shoni came to my aid and told my dad that it represented water and it would soon rain (we had suffered four years of drought until then). A week or two later a freak storm moved in deep, spawned from a cyclone off the Mocambique coast and the big dam filled in eight hours–experts had told him that it would take ten outstanding rainy seasons to fill. He never doubted Shoni after that!

By: Caitlin Hildebrandt

Caitlin Hildebrandt — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 02:51:00 +0000

In reply to Nic (MyKoreanHusband). Ah I have heard of the chopstick one but not the cutting your toenails one! Ohhh I have seen those XD I always think the same thing too! Hahaha

By: Shaye RIcca

Shaye RIcca — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 04:25:00 +0000

Its funny how these superstitions get SO ingrained. I live in Korea now, and once I got caught in the rain, so I ducked into a convenience store to buy an umbrella. When the man who worked there opened it for me inside the store, I nearly had a heart attack.