Is it normal that my people believe in this?

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Am partly African.. My mom is Kenyan but my dad caucasian white. So am stuck inbetween two different worlds.. But let's focus on my African side, in my culture they believe that pregnant women should not be anywhere near a dead body it's bad luck...there's other crazy beliefs that my siblings and I just ignore.. Do other people (cultures) believe in such stuff?

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  • TheEyesTheySee
    6 years ago

    lol, who needs car alarms when you got fake snakes, shmae its not that way here in cali /:

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  • SpookyPancake
    6 years ago

    It might be a legend or a superstition, but it has a basis in reality. A dead body might decay and release harmful substances, so it makes sense that a culture belief that "pregnant woman + corpse nearby = bad", no matter the circumstances.

    My country (Poland) is super Catholic, so every church has a bone/tooth/bit of blood/foreskin of some random saint. People come in, kneel, rub their clothes on it etc.

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    • Eminemisbae
      6 years ago

      Wow okay...I guess it's just traditions.

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      • SpookyPancake
        6 years ago

        Yeah, and people here believe that, for example, if you find a church that has a box with bloodied clothes of this saint, if you rub a bottle of water on this box and drink it, you will have better eyesight/happier marriage/demons will GTFO, depending on a saint.

        Or if you kneel in front of a box with saint's bone and pray (a different prayer for every saint), also some good shit will happen.

        It's a bit creepy at times, but hey, culture.

        On a less fucked up note, Polish people also believe that if you see a guy who cleans chimneys, you should touch any random button on your clothes, bc it will bring you luck.

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  • FeralDefiance
    6 years ago

    I grew up in the southern US, and I had a friend in high school who wouldn't allow cats near her newborn baby because "cat steals the baby's breath."

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  • BlackCatsAreAwesome
    6 years ago

    Some people in the West believe that black cats bring bad luck. :-(

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  • Jimbo24
    6 years ago

    Superstition is usually widespread among poorly educated people wherever they might be.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    6 years ago

    thanks obama

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  • Cuntsiclestick
    6 years ago

    I live in a ghetto part of the US and cars like that get stolen all the time. They steal the car, gut it out, and dump it's corpse in a wooded area or abandoned lot.

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  • Eminemisbae
    6 years ago

    Haha there's lots of crazy ass traditions that are absurd.. Best thing is just doing what you know :-D

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