Funny Superstitions in India!

India is known for its culture and tradition that dates back a long time ago. There’s something else that India is pretty known or maybe not for are its Superstitions.

Growing up in India from a traditional family I had my dose of all the belief that are followed back here. Some are kind of logical while the others are just plain stupid. But it’s been in our lives for a long time that we end up following them at least when we live with our older generation.

Let’s start with the Superstitions itself and list them out in no particular order of their stupidity.

• Don’t cut your nails after the Sun’s down

  Every time I sit to cut down my nails I can hear my mom yelling at me asking me to stop this madness. Though it would have made sense back in those ages where it used to get dark and the magic of electricity was missing in out lives, now it’s just a moo point.

• Spending night under the Trees

  Spending the night under the trees especially a Sacred Fig, Neem would probably end up in some bad entity possessing you. One Logical explanation would be that trees let out Carbon dioxide in the night, but then the animals that sleep under the tree are fine in the mornings. Not that the dogs that spend the night under the tree end up like the dogs in Underworld.

• Eating raw rice would lead to Floods

  Apparently stuffing your mouth with uncooked rice could lead to thunderstorms during your marriage. Now I’m not sure how this works but the possible explanation would be that mothers didn’t want the kids to empty those bags of rice by munching on them like some candy. Give me 10 more years, I’ll double check if this is true or not!

• Skipping Meat on Saturdays

  Now this is totally insane. Here we have this thing where every day of the week is dedicated to certain gods. To please these gods the meat eaters in India skip eating meat so as to show their loyalty to that particular god. I completely don’t get how people conveniently choose to pick gods as their favorites and be partial to them.

• Not cleaning if not everyone at home are awake

  You can definitely find Hindu homes where they don’t start cleaning their houses if everyone’s not awake. They refer this to the state where they have a corpse at home and once they take it out they clean the entire house. So, they think it’s not okay to clean the house when someone’s asleep as this might refer to the person sleeping as the corpse. How many times have I been woken up by my mom early in the morning due to this same reason. Urghhh.

Some of these beliefs do make sense when they have a logical explanation but some, on the other hand, are just blindly followed and this has to change. While these are slowly changing as the newer generation are starting to grow up. Maybe the kids now will miss all these superstitions and will one less thing to laugh about.

Let me know what other funny, stupid superstitions that you follow and maybe we can all laugh or debate about it!

Cheers. Have an amazing day! See you soon.

Nana