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What are your parents/elders’ ridiculous superstitions?

Or can be young people’s also. Eg women’s underwear cannot be washed in the washing machine with mens clothes if not will bring bad luck to the men. Like who even invented these things?

I also had bosses believing cannot early morning ask for money. I got told off for reminding boss on a payment we owe a vendor in the morning.

Or that if first order of the day is cancelled its bad luck for the entire day. Or first dish of the day cannot order fried rice.

Netizens’ comments

1. Cannot go to another friend’s wedding and vice versa if your wedding date is close to each other. Bc it’s considered a clash. Ridiculous
2. cannot have a shower/bath late at night or your head will leak air.
3. eating chicken will make you cough. i had a massive argument w my grandaunt over this. she insisted it was real, i insisted it was psychological. she said impossible.
   i sat next to her and whispered ‘gai yok, gai yok, gai yok’ (chicken meat in cantonese in her ear. within ten seconds she started coughing. i said ‘nah, proven’.
   she was furious and kept saying i was disrespectful. dad and mum were just laughing away.
4. If you don’t finish your rice, your future spouse with have a pimply-face.
5. point ur finger at the moon and u will get a cut behind ur ear
6. I think this is pretty common but the superstition that moths are a harbinger of death. We’ve had quite a number of moths coming into my workplace lately and my YOUNGER colleagues are speculating over who died or that someone is gonna pass on soon.
7. And not really a superstition but more on the paranormal side – a few of my older (like in their 50s) colleagues, including my boss, say that cotton plants are like a host to pontianak. We brought back some cotton plants and seeds from the community garden and they were freaking out lmao.
8. Enter hotel room need to knock door first. 7th month cannot whistle.
9. I have a few that my wife inherited from her parents (we don’t even know the origination TBH):
   cannot turn on WiFi at home because the signals will cause illness
   guys cannot walk under a woman’s underwear (when they are hanging to dry) and vice versa
   after midnight cannot cut fingernails/toenails
   cannot give bags/wallets/kitchen ware as gifts to others because they symbolize you giving your wealth/luck to others
   cannot take people’s gift of slippers because their bad luck will drag you down
   cannot buy running shoes for your spouse/significant other because they will “cheat”/”run” away from you
   cannot have wind chimes at home because it’ll attract spirits to your house
   if you’re pregnant you cannot go to funerals/weddings
   win TOTO/4D must give/donate a portion of it away so that you’ll win more in the future
   cannot take/buy 2nd hand items (jeans, furniture, etc) because it’ll mean that you don’t have wealth to buy new things
   cannot say negative things because words have power and what you say will come to you (e.g. I don’t understand how people can fall down from a chair while seated)