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It is good to imagine that humanity has evolved into a group of intellectually sophisticated sophisticated people who undergone decisions on the justification of sound and proven science. But in a great and small way, many remain considered toPopular Tales and unfounded superstitions of Eras Bygone.

Why do people always kiss on thresholds, for example? There is literally zero of conclusive evidence to suggest that it can inflict a curse. The same goes for the whole breeze-mirror-mirror-you-you-bad luck. And yet, in countries and cultures around the world, we are paralyzed by such actions. Here, learn the 25 who permeate humanity in the strangest and most illogical way.

You may know about the belief that you should always make a visual contact with whom you click on glasses, but that the Germans add another ride to the belief: bad luck will allocate you if there is water in This glass. Whilesome say It is rooted in an old Greek belief on the dead drinking from the Lethe river, it is probably more likely than some Germans are just not considered a pleasure to grill with something that is not a big cup of beer .

You have heard about bad luck that can be invited by opening an umbrella inside, but you may not have understood that similar so-called obsolete dangers when whistling. Well, it is a popular belief held among the Lithuanians, at least. In their country, the hissing act inside is supposed to be a call to "devils"And it is considered rude to do it.

In Japan, it is considered not only impolite to configure your chopsticks in your bowl while holding straight. It's considered mortal. "It looks like four times and in Japanese culture, four is a very unlucky number - it means death," a Japanese American womanExplain Folk researchers at the University of Southern California. "If you go to Japan, you will never find anything grouped or selling in four, it's only about superstition, like how many the people of America are afraid of number 13. So you do not Never direct your chopsticks in people, as if you talk to the dinner table. It's rude and a little threat. "

While one of the great moments of a relationship is a partner bearing his spouse on the threshold of their new home, this area between the outside and the interior can also be dangerous, at least in Russia. "Never shake your hand or kiss on a threshold; you will become enemies"advises David Filipov, theWashington PostThe leader of the Moscow office.

A number of cultures found that it is itching is a sign of misfortune or bad news being on the way. If you think it's the old folklore, no one believes a lot, so would you like to believe that there is actuallyProfessional Telesthists, who studies itching and what they mean? AsThe sun Explains: "It's itching inside your alluding levels to trouble and sorrow at the top of your way - and an itching outside is just as imported. It symbolizes it will not be long before being bored , cursed or meet a fool-who some people prefer to dress like "you will have a visitor". "

In Turkey, the hands of itching can have important repercussions on your final result. As theBeliefs are going, a palm to the left of itching means that you will pay money or lose money while a right hand of itching means that the money will soon come to come.

A common superstition in the fishing regions of China, this belief grows from the idea that turning on a complete cooked fish is likely to cause a capsulation of a fishing boat. Get the meat on the other side of the fish, as a book onChinese dining room explains, "Gently pull the bone from the end of the tail because it is considered bad luck to turn the fish."

Speculative Fiction Writer Este Madeleinto explain that a broken mirror is common in cultures around the world, Russians who believe that the mirror will release the evil spirits at home believing that the last person to watch in a broken mirror is the first to die (or suffer from a kind of misfortune). "However, the seven-year period of misfortune seems to come from the Romans," she explains. "The Romans believed that the body takes seven years to renew and the same, palm readers in China believe that your destiny is renewed every seven years. Others say that the use of the number seven comes from Christianity with a link. Towards the seven days of the creation of God. "

In Mexico and in other areas, we believe that two mirrors faced, which may seem cool and create a pretty strange optical illusion - can actually open a door in hell. Like Joshua Partlow, Head Office of Mexico for theWashington Post the dish, "They say that if you put two mirrors in front of the other, you open a threshold for the devil."

A common superstition in the UK and China is to make a stroller before the baby is born, it's bad luck. You can choose it and even buy it, but do not give it before the baby has been delivered safely unless youwant to risk The anger of the negative forces in the universe.

Like frightening "Corporal song"Explain", do not you laugh when the hearse goes / because you could be the next die. "Although it can look like a picturesque return of a folk melody, take a look at how your friends react next time a hearse makes it, you dig on the block. Chances are you and They will get a little more muted in the conversation and a little less alive in laughter. Of course, it's just a myth ... but why test it?

Another fear of funerals, this one is more common in the Philippines, where the inhabitants subscribe to the idea of ​​"pagpag"What are the ones who come directly after a toilet can wear evil spirits with them so that they must" shake dust or dirt "as the term translates to Tagalog.

A number of crops examine the number 13 with suspicion and superstition, and the discomfort with the number goes back to the Middle Ages, rooted, likesome experts Maintain, in the number of people present at the last Dinner of Jesus. Many hotels and buildings still ignore the 13th floor to avoid panicking guests and visitors who could always feel a nervousness about the number and planners of the game to this day avoid having 13 people at a table for similar reasons. .

We covered 13, but why Friday? For similar reasons, according to anthropologists, who emphasize that Jesus was crucified on a Friday. Even those who are not particularly religious have probably thought twice in planning an interview or a significant intervention onFriday 13And when something goes wrong, I'm probably at least that the cursed date could have something to do with that. Interestingly, other cultures have their own unlucky day versions, including the 17th of Italy and Tuesday 13 of Greece.

Lay a loaf of bread upside down or serving upside down in a restaurant in France and Italy is not just bad label; someConsider this bad luck. Some say that it grew up from the Middle Ages when the baker put aside a bread for the executioner,Return it upside down To make sure he would go to the right person.

In Sweden, it is considered misfortune to put keys on tables. As an author about Scandinavian practicesto explain"The origin of this superstition is that, back in the day, prostitutes used to indicate their availability by placing their keys on the table." Do not want to imitate such behavior of frowning frowies, it became seen as inappropriate for the average Swedish to do it, and it is unlikely that today it is unlikely to see many people using The dining room table as a keyplace.

That's what some in Rwanda believed. As someResearchers point outThe traditional society has imposed many food restrictions on women and "women were forbidden to eat goat meat on the pretext that it would make them grow a beard."

It is thought that this counter-intuitive superstition is from Russia, but has acquired popularity throughout the west and where seagulls and pigeons have searched the sky. Although it may have grown from a desire for those who have been "abandoned" to getting felt better, he continues to be largely raw by everyone's movie stars toAthletes Pro.

France has its own idea of ​​what Aim-Brut-is-really-good-for-you superstition: only if you enter the dog's coca on the sidewalk (something that can befrustrating common In Paris), you are actually in a little luck. But it's not always a good thing. As belief happens, it is thought to walk with your left foot, while your right footcould result In "a life of despair".

In Scotland and Ireland and elsewhere, the inhabitants retain the dew who collects the morning of May 1st (and others say throughout May and June) has special embellishment buildings that lead a lot to get up early for Gather moisture and put on their face. SomeWill collect A pile of it so that it can last in the coming months and in the following month.

Various European countries hold a black face sheep bringbad luck For the rest of the flock. While Scottish farmers are not as likely to hold this conviction because they may have been decades several decades ago, the notion of a "black sheep"In a family or group has certainly continued to be believed and dreaded.

A common belief among Hindus is that getting cut off the hair and nails on Saturday "brings the anger of the planet Shani (Saturn) on us," according toa writer.

In this era of the Forecasts of AccuWeather and 10 days, the United States continues to trust the weather forecasts of a marmot named PunxSutawney Phil, following the ritual that takes place in Pennsylvania every 2 February since the end of the years 1800, in which the marmot is guided at the top of a strain and "tells the official if he saw his shadow - determine if the spring will arrive or if there will be six weeks more winter time. It is a ridiculous ritual but all the people involved take it surprisingly seriously and that it has been responsible for its own marmot day industry.(and a Classic Bill Murray Film).

Cut your nails after nightfall is considered a bad luck in Japan and a wearer of death, according to a common superstition there. Thereasons vary From the possibility that it can be rooted in a real fear of centuries before you can hurt yourself in the dark, especially given the brutal instruments they used during the day. But this can also relate to a literal superstition that shorten your nails could shorten your life or release part of your soul in the night. Whatever the explanation, it's not a good thing.

You would think you want to wish a happy birthday would always be a good thing. But in Germany, if you do it before the real birthday of the person, you areinviting bad luck-Evene if only a few hours before midnight of the actual day. With that in mind, the country has adopted the tradition of Reinfeier , or "celebrate", in which guests gather with the person with birthday and celebrate when the clock strikes midnight.