Your Superstitions and Strange Beliefs - or how to ward off bad luck, wicked juju, and the evil eye

[Kung Pow Cream]

What's this?

I believe the "official" term is "boyfriend sweater curse". Long story short, the idea is that if you make a partner a sweater, you will break up with them. There's actually many things into this.

Making a sweater takes time. While you are making the sweater, the relationship begins to develop and you may start to see their flaws as time progresses.

Making a sweater takes a lot of effort. You will be constantly thinking "Hmmm is this person worth all this time?" as you make it.

Folks may see it as a commitment to something serious. That's when some folks may flee.

However, that's just one of the reasons why I don't make clothes for my loved ones. The sizing for the right fit, the choosing of yarn, the pattern selection, and then figuring out if someone would like it is very daunting and complicated for my simple mind so I just do hats and such at the most.

 

[Otterly]

@NoReturn the sweater curse is that if you knit your boyfriend a sweater, he will leave you or the relationship will end.

 

[anliteralidiot]

Whenever I hear "good" news about someone who is really ill, I know they're going to die soon. I keep seeing it happen in my friends, and with myself. A loved one will have some cancer, have a really good week, and they're down the next. I don't know if it's a superstition or what, but I don't like hearing good news when someone is really ill. I'd rather hear nothing.

On a lighter note, ghosts are totally real, and I believe that the more "intact" the body, and more tragic the death, means a stronger ghost, with more of a presense. I also believe my dad's music comes up more in my iPod's shuffle playlist when I'm sad, because he's looking out for me.

Whenever I'm really anxious about something, I always go to something "random" to see how it's going to go. Like, I'm going to see my in-laws soon, and I wanted to know if I should bring a plant for my MIL. I wasn't sure if I should bring her a string of tears plant, because her dad just passed. So, I used the Sonic totem from lolcow.farm, a random number generator, and asked.


I got a 44, so I'm going to avoid the string of tears, and bring her a string of hearts instead.

 

[Shidoen]

Whenever I hear "good" news about someone who is really ill, I know they're going to die soon. I keep seeing it happen in my friends, and with myself. A loved one will have some cancer, have a really good week, and they're down the next. I don't know if it's a superstition or what, but I don't like hearing good news when someone is really ill. I'd rather hear nothing.

On a lighter note, ghosts are totally real, and I believe that the more "intact" the body, and more tragic the death, means a stronger ghost, with more of a presense. I also believe my dad's music comes up more in my iPod's shuffle playlist when I'm sad, because he's looking out for me.

Whenever I'm really anxious about something, I always go to something "random" to see how it's going to go. Like, I'm going to see my in-laws soon, and I wanted to know if I should bring a plant for my MIL. I wasn't sure if I should bring her a string of tears plant, because her dad just passed. So, I used the Sonic totem from lolcow.farm, a random number generator, and asked.
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I got a 44, so I'm going to avoid the string of tears, and bring her a string of hearts instead.

The sonichu medallion is a beherit while the Sonic totem is an apostle. Chris Chan is just a pseudo-apostle granted by the totem.

 

[Fag Albert]

I dont have anything super crazy. But if I'm suddenly waffling over going to or doing super mundane, I won't do it because that's the universe telling me that something really bad is going to happen on the way.

 

[Shidoen]

Ghosts, Bigfoot, and all those goblins and ghouls are real. I don’t care what you say, science cannot explain everything and those things may as well be real.

 

[s0mbra]

I believe there's something special we have yet to tap into as a species. Idk if I can explain it well, but it's not "magic" or interdenominational shit, but more akin to the effects of the placebo effect. Our minds can do some crazy shit, and if we can trick ourselves into thinking our illnesses were cured with a sugar pill just because some otter person in a lab coat told us it would, imagine some of the other crazy shit we could do just by simply willing it. I believe this is what "magic" is when you hear about people doing rituals and shit to "manifest" things like good luck or whatever. Believe you're going to have a good day and you probably will.

Also people with raw talent fascinate me. People who seem like they were literally born to do one specific thing and are wicked savants at it. I wonder if it's really just a coincidence of the perfect alignment of cultural, economic and genetic factors or of there's something more.

 

[Kurt Eichenwald]

Through years of expirementation I've discovered that turok evolution on the GameCube loads far more reliably when you yell "bad stick go fast!" at it.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

I believe it's bad luck not to take the first bite of any home-made meal in the room you cooked it in.

 

[NimertiS]

I believe in evil eye.

If someone envies you, he gives you the "eye", bad energy. Dizziness, headaches, misfortunes.

Blue eyed people give the "eye" more than other.

 

[corporal shepard]

i always be suspicious of symbolic paintings. it gives me the creeps.

 

[Shidoen]

Controller stick drift is due to the Rothchilds and similar to their fuckery to my car’s check engine light.

 

[NoReturn]

Ghosts, Bigfoot, and all those goblins and ghouls are real. I don’t care what you say, science cannot explain everything and those things may as well be real.

Similar, the little people. They are, or were real. There's gotta be a reason why so many civilizations - even those spread out with no contact we know of back in the day - talk about little people who also exist like humans, but aren't humans.

• Gnomes, kobolds, goblins, duendes, etc. in Europe
• Huldufólk in Iceland
• Menehume in Hawaii
• Ta'ai in in Taiwan
• Korpokkur in Japan
• Chaneque, alux, canotila, etc. in the Americas

Also trolls are an ancestral memory of neanderthals, just look at 'em.


Got the bigger noses than humans, the larger skulls and bigger bones, they're hairier, they lived in colder climates (which explains the "not liking sun" stuff), we've found evidence of humans eating them and them eating us...

 

[pork and beans]

i also say thank you when i find something i misplaced, i didnt know others did that too. also i never talk loudly in cementeries and i usually say goodbye before i leave, otherwise it feels very disrespectful.

 

[Gef Mongoose]

I live in an area with some voodoo folklore. I don’t mess with any of it. I also do not mess with Ouija boards.

I do not like to wish death on people. It leaves me with a bad feeling, like it will come back on me. I’m very careful to try to not step on graves in a cemetery. The only place I haven’t been able to is in national cemeteries for service members/veterans.

Being awake and alone in my house in the middle of the night makes me feel weird. I have a mirror in my bedroom that looks onto my bed. I have had an out of body experience when I fell asleep on my couch once, and the minute or two that I had the experience, I witnessed a shadow person in my house.

 

[Deezy]

I believe in evil eye.

If someone envies you, he gives you the "eye", bad energy. Dizziness, headaches, misfortunes.

Blue eyed people give the "eye" more than other.

I thought the eye as a symbol was meant to ward off envy and hatred? Like a protective talisman or something.

Speaking of which, nothing too crazy, but I always keep a tuft of my cat’s fur with me in my bag. I’m also scared to look in the mirror if it’s dark. No Ouija boards.

 

[Otterly]

Whenever I hear "good" news about someone who is really ill, I know they're going to die soon.

This is something that a lot of medics think and have seen. Gravely ill people often rally before they die. I will bet there’s some work done on it somewhere.

 

[Aiōn]

I believe that if you pay attention you are more likely to notice subtle things and people only see what they are supposed to see.

A few weeks ago after the MATI stream about the bugritto I was thinking about KingCobraJFS and went to shut the blinds and saw what looked like his initials in the velvet when I walked across the room.

Just an example where I thought to take a photo - Hopefully you can see, it was clearer in person.


I have had several dreams that have come true and I also believe in Divine Intervention.

 

[NoReturn]

I thought the eye as a symbol was meant to ward off envy and hatred? Like a protective talisman or something.

The eye in jewelry, etc. is a "no u" to the evil eye that @NimertiS was talking about.

I have had several dreams that have come true

Same. When I was little I thought I was psychic, but as an adult I think it's more something that is part of the "collective human unconsciousness" or something because a bunch of other people all over the world and throughout history have had the same or similar experiences.
Unfortunately, I also feel like a lot of people will discount those experiences these days by saying "Oh you must have seen that place online/in a video and forgot" and just write it off.

 

[PandaChai]

I think it's more something that is part of the "collective human unconsciousness"

I am 100% convinced of a global consciousness/psyche, and I am equally certain that it has been deliberately and maliciously retarded by the media industrial complex. But that's straying too far into the conspiracy side of things really for this thread.

Some additional beliefs/superstitions I hold or half-hold though would be to not whistle after nightfall, that names hold power, ghosts are real, some people really can sense "presences", the existence of house sprites, and the phenomena of areas of both high and low strangeness. Along with crossroads being closer to the former of those and my hometown being very much the latter.

Also possibly sympathetic magic, but I need to do more reading on that.

Edited to add (on yet another line) that some otherwise inanimate objects definitely have a personality. Steam trains and printers are two good examples of this I feel.