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 Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 7:09 am
4laugh i'm really interested in knowing some japanese superstitions smile whee sometimes, i try to do them, just to see if they're true xd and yeah.. does anyone know any japanese superstitions? i only know a little, one is "when a cat walks right infront of you, it's unlucky" or something 3nodding but that one isnt really japanese xD soo yaah..
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Posted: Mon Sep 04, 2006 8:33 am
If you whistle at night, a snake will appear (or something to that effect).
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:47 pm
Speaking of doing them to see if they're true, my friends once walked back and forth under a ladder 13 times and they said they didn't notice anything odd....it was funny to watch them.
You may have heard me say this one already but my mum (who is generally not superstitious at all) is a pure blood Korean, immigrated from Korea like 30 years ago, and on New Year's Eve, she told me to make sure to wash out the rice pot well and throw away all the old rice (there was a lot of it, and it hadn't gone bad or anything.) She says its a sort of metaphor for carrying old problems into the New Year.
Sorry I didn't have anything more interesting, but I was pretty surprised that she'd do something like that so it's cool to me.
Haha, it's Korean and not Japanese, but chances are, they have something similar in Japan.
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:57 pm
Can someone explain to me, why japanese people cut their hair off when their heart is broken? I met with this like two times in different places so there must be something like this.
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Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 8:58 pm
one of my exchange students almost has a fit when I went to take a shoe to a cricket in my room. She grabbed the cricket in her hands and put him outside. I think she said something about it being lucky or a blessing, I don't remember.
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 1:59 am
kazabana If you whistle at night, a snake will appear (or something to that effect). A thief. The whistle was supposedly a... sign, from one thief to his accomplice. So if you whistle at night, you're basically telling the accomplice that the house is clear and such. It's not really a superstition, clayra. One way women have a change in mood is when they... change their physical appearance/style. You know... Make yourself look attractive and all, to feel good about yourself. Cutting your hair is the easiest way to do that.
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:59 pm
The whistling at night makes me think of the Stick Indian story. Maybe you guys haven't heard of it, but where I live, there are a lot of Indians so that story is very alive.
Supposedly if you whistle at night, it's a signal between the mysterious Stick Indians. I'm not entirely sure what they Stick Indians are, but they're like some sort of forest spiritlike thing and they seem to be malicious unless you appease them. I didn't really listen to the story, but all the Indian girls were getting scared at camp when the counselors tried to spook us by whistling and throwing rocks on the roof.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:08 pm
Clayra Can someone explain to me, why japanese people cut their hair off when their heart is broken? I met with this like two times in different places so there must be something like this. Traditionally, I think it means to cut off your unhappy past and start anew. Well, I think that's the idea behind it.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 3:42 pm
I know Japanese people think if you sneeze someone is talking about you. I think thats really neat.
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 4:50 pm
Ichigo1417 I know Japanese people think if you sneeze someone is talking about you. I think thats really neat.
rofl Ｉ ｒｅｍｅｍｂｅｒ ｔｈａｔ ｏｎｅ ｆｒｏｍ Ｙｕｕ Ｙｕｕ Ｈａｋｕｓｈｏ． Ｂｏｔａｎ was like ”Achoo！Ｓｏｍｅｏｎｅ’ｓ thinking about you！” Ｗｈｅｎ Ｙｕｋｉｎａ ｓｎｅｅｚｅｄ． rofl （Ｂｏｔａｎ’ｓ ｃｒａｚｙ ｔｈｏｕｇｈ． rofl ）
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 5:40 pm
Ichigo1417 I know Japanese people think if you sneeze someone is talking about you. I think thats really neat. actually, this belief is import from india
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 8:47 pm
one superstiniton is if you have small earlobes you cant save money
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Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2006 9:42 pm
Aiko_589 one superstiniton is if you have small earlobes you cant save money yeah, i've also heard something similar: if your earlobes are large and "meaty" then you'll be very fortunate (as in having lots of fortune)
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:59 am
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Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:08 pm
che_hyun http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2209.html This has a number of them. A bunch I didn't know too...why do you hide your thumb when a funeral car passes by? So the spirits dont take you along with them.
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