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Post by carthan81 on May 13, 2005 19:24:15 GMT 1
Today is Friday 13th!! and so far it's been okay! (touch wood)
Which superstitions are popular in Croatia?
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Post by carthan81 on May 13, 2005 19:26:12 GMT 1
Actually, I remember being "told-off" by the missus once for lighting a ciggie from a candle... apparantly I was killing a sailor or something.
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Post by Natali on May 13, 2005 19:57:21 GMT 1
I rememeber hearing this one as a kid. Don't brush your hair while in bed... someone will become sick.
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Post by valiant 1 on May 13, 2005 21:35:37 GMT 1
yeah i know of the one about lighting cigarrettes from candles. and also ..dont cut your nails on sundays. its no good to cut your nails on sundays. also . alot of people in croatia believe in witches, and curses . and that stuff really does exist
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Post by carthan81 on May 13, 2005 22:11:35 GMT 1
My girl and her sister are quite hot on the Turkish-coffee-reading-thing. It's when they take it from you, and then shake their head slowly and "tut tut". Not good.
Apparently, she said she saw us kissing (in the remains of her coffee) a week before we actually first did! Spooooky...
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Post by divttp on May 14, 2005 0:04:12 GMT 1
or that being left-handed is a sign of the devil!
about the cutting nails on Sundays, its not really a supersitution, but more of a Catholic thing...at least in my family.
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Post by Daria13 on May 14, 2005 3:54:30 GMT 1
Today is my birthday! Hard to believe its on Friday the 13th ;D
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Post by Ghost Writer on May 14, 2005 4:44:18 GMT 1
Thirteen is a lucky number.
There were 12 apostles and Christ.... that makes 13.
Very good number.... I have always had good things happen on the 13th!!!
Another Croatian myth.... Don't walk around with your hair wet.... you will get sick... even in summer!!!
or how about don't open windows across from each other because the draft will get you sick.... mind you they are telling you this in the middle of summer and you are sweating like a pig and would die for a cross breeze thru the house.
Strange ! I don't know where they get it!
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Post by superstitions on May 15, 2005 8:37:25 GMT 1
Walking around with wet hair is not a Croatian superstition! Just about every country I've ever been to has the same health warning.
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Post by divttp on May 15, 2005 21:33:32 GMT 1
I don't really understand the whole deal about "propuh." My family always tells me never to open two windows across from each other
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Post by Ghost Writer on May 17, 2005 8:23:56 GMT 1
Don't get it.
Wet hair is not unhealthy in the summer or winter. I do it all the time and I have not been sick for 3 years.
The window thing is ridiculous like a cross draft is going to make you deadly ill......
If anyone knows where this superstition started I would love to know??
What I don't understand is most of us are catholic and as catholics we are not suppose to believe in superstitions or coffee/tea readings. If you trust in God then why worry about superstitions, they can't hurt you. So maybe someone can tell me where these things came from?
I must be an odd ball I don't believe in any superstitions! Nijedan.
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Post by carthan81 on May 17, 2005 11:26:24 GMT 1
Most superstitions probably started among the Roma, or Ottomans or someone else.
I know some superstitions began as just "wise advice". Not opening your umbrella indoors first came about as people kept knocking things over with them. Not passing people on stairs is bad luck - because stairs ain't that wide! and you will bump into the other person. Opening opposite windows is "bad luck" because... it creates cross winds that... knock things over!!
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Post by Unknown1 on May 17, 2005 11:36:19 GMT 1
...If you trust in God then why worry about... I love arguing about God and religion - it's one of the great "pub-debates". If trust is in God, then why is there so much suffering - and why has such a beautiful country seen so much blood and destruction? Someone very close to my heart lost faith in such an almighty power during the early 90's.
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Post by Ivo on May 17, 2005 22:04:39 GMT 1
Thirteen is a lucky number. There were 12 apostles and Christ.... that makes 13. Very good number.... I have always had good things happen on the 13th!!! There was a treator among them (Judas). This is the reason why 13 is a bad number.
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Post by Ghost Writer on May 17, 2005 22:22:27 GMT 1
There was a treator among them (Judas). This is the reason why 13 is a bad number. Still there were 13 so it is not bad. Even if you don't believe in God it is a number....only a number. Why is a number bad luck? There is no logical reason for it. Most superstitions are just nonsense. Same with astrological signs(birthsigns)....just a bunch of crap.
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