These are some myths and superstitions that are common here.
In Yorubaland, you must not drag wares meant for sale on the floor, if you do, you have to tap the wares 3times to avoid badluck.
A pregnant woman who walks in the sun between 1pm -3pm should attach a safety pin or smooth stone to her clothing in order to wade off evil spirits that can harm her unborn baby. Some people even failure to do this can make one to end up giving birth to a monster.
Whistling in the night attracts snakes
Pouring salt on the floor and stepping on it attracts ill-luck
When you are using a pot to boil bathing water, don't cover the lid except you want to bathe a corpse.
It is a taboo for a child to fall from his/her mum's back. If a female child falls, she will be widowed 7 times consecutively. If a male child falls, he will be widowed 9 times consecutively.
After giving birth to your first child, you must take note of the first breast that you gave him/her to suck, whether left or right breast. That is the same breast you must give to all your other children when they want to have their first suck. This will make them all to be united. If you don't do this, there will be rivalry among your kids.
It is a taboo for a child to beat his/her parent. Any child who does this will also be beaten by his/her own child and the circle continues until a miracle happens.
Anyone who drowns must be buried by the water where the incident happened to avoid calamity
Anyone who commits suicide must not be buried at home to avoid calamity
Add your own....
Mama Tee.
*Chei i did that pregnant woman with pin thing here abroad until my Doc advised that it was dangerous..lol
It's really amazing how much believe a lot of people put into these myths....for me it has always been a case of what you believe is what will happen to you...I can't put my lifeline on such myth...
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DeleteI did the pregnant women thing o. I always had either safety pin or charcoal attached to my clothes. Lol. I was so used to it eh. I so much believed/believe in it.
Delete@nkay,you're right what you believe will work for you. My friend tried that pin thing when she was with me and I told her that pin is not written anywhere in the Bible. I told her that pin signifies Ogun(god of iron) and she's indirectly dedicating her child to the god of iron. She quickly threw the pin into the thrash and guess what with all the waka waka we did inside sun as students then she gave birth to a healthy baby girl 9months later.
DeleteAs a child of God anything not written in the Bible I don't flow with them. In whose report shall I believe? That of God or that of man? I choose that of God over man made laws biko...
Huh . Stella you did what?
ReplyDeleteMama Tee you forgot to add the don't sweep at night tale. Don't even know why one shud not sweep at night?
Haha haha that one serious o. May God help us.
DeleteWhat I know is that if you believe all this it will affect you.
As far as Jesus paid the price for me, I do what I like without fear
Pregnant woman with pin is somehow scary to me. It is all superstitions, but it is a taboo for a child to beat his or her parents the repercursion is true. The said child will experience the same brutality from his/her own children.
ReplyDeleteIt is a taboo to brake a stone if you do all your children will die prematurely.
It is also a taboo to eat shaki with your eye wide open else.....
Hahahahah @ Stella so you carry Naija superstition enter abroad? You did not hear that our juju does not work in abroad?
ReplyDeleteWho tell you say e no dry work there? How them take dey use juju call person back to 9ja with juju ?
DeleteBut if in doubt and want to try some myth, try this one!" spray cologne into a river, steam or ocean. Then stand and watch mermaids in action!
DeleteLol, this kind myths na wa.
ReplyDeleteIn my village in Akwa-Ibom, if a confessed witch dies, he or she must be dragged on the ground 3 times before being buried in order to avoid bad things in the village. My uncle's wife was asked to drag him on the ground like that when he confessed of being a cultist before he died. She was also the one that cleaned him up and dressed him for burial because no one wanted to touch him. Her eyes were red after the whole thing. She narrated her ordeal to us.
ReplyDelete-> You don't sit on a mortar
ReplyDelete-> A pregnant woman should not sleep on her back or else the child will have crossed-eye
-> A business man or woman must not allow people to dump sugarcane or melon shaft in front or around her shop if he/she wants to make sales
-> if you want to transfer a sleeping baby from someone's back (A) to another person back(B) , you tap the child's feet on the ground before putting it on the back of B.
-> It's a taboo to kill wall gecko. Killing them means the person won't have money. 😂.
Bullocks! Nigerians and BS! 2,4 & 5 are the worse.
DeleteLaughing hilariously especially on the breast feeding own. I can't even remember which one I gave first!
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ReplyDeleteI yaff died. Mama Tee, all these things are very common especially with Yoruba people, yes I have them as in-laws so I know. The ones beside my shop said wall-geckos and ants bring wealth. They said if I see ants inside my shop or house I should feed them with sugar and I should not kill wall-geckos, I will see how wealth will visit me.
Now I'm thinking of sprinkling sugar all round my shop and home so that plenty ants will visit me.
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As for the wall-geckos, their sight alone irritate me, I have chased them away with that garlic mixture one anonymous talked about.
Royalty abeg can you tell us the garlic mixture. I'm so much interested. They want pursue me for house.
DeleteAnonny dem wan pursue you for house?
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Cut cloves of garlic or onions and place them at the points where you used to see them. That is what I did.
You can also try this other method the anon shared. Grind pepper, add water and put in a container that can spray. Spray it on spots where you normally see the wall geckos. Shikena
Meanwhile I just read Boredom post of yesterday. I'm still laughing. Somebody help me ooo
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Please even me self....did the mixture work??
DeleteThey use to say your beliefs works for you
ReplyDelete*They will say don't sit at the entrance and eat, you will never get filled
*Dont sweep at night
*Dont beat a boy or man with broom, his kini will become small.
You mustn't have sex in a office or shop as that will make your business collapse or your market will not sell
ReplyDeleteIn my place they say if you kill python you will buy coffin, sow mourning cloth and bury it like a human being. Again if you eat head of paw paw you will run mad, masquerade na ghost no be human being, e plenty, I dey come
ReplyDeleteIf you mistakenly hit or poke someone with a broom whilst sweeping, you must spit on the floor and say "lulu".
ReplyDeleteYou don't draw water from the well at night.
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ReplyDelete@Stella; you did?
Them say Yoruba myths; Stella be Yoruba; I am confused
Some people say if you want to give birth to a male child, you must be removing your shoes outside the door and leave it there. No matter how expensive your shoes are, you must leave them outside.
ReplyDeleteall my four pregnancy I did not put any pin I go out wen I want to be it hot afternoon or at night,infact most of the thing u mention up there as taboo I did all expect the beating ones parent
ReplyDeleteHmm funny, I don't believe in them
ReplyDeleteI don't believe all those things o. Lol. Mil came to do omugwo nd I got irritated with it all. Don't throw water from bathing baby in d toilet, pour it in d bathroom if it enters toilet, baby will smell bad. I told her that all d water(whether toilet or bathroom) will enter smelly soakaway. She gave me evil eye. Lmao. Baby must not laugh at night, evil old women will slap her, pregnant woman shouldn't pass refuse dump, baby will contact evil spirits, as a nursing mother I shouldn't sleep facing up, it will give bad dreams, lots of yeyeness that year. Lmao.
ReplyDeleteI was once told that you shouldn't lay on your bed with your legs facing the door. According to them, only corpse are laid that way (when lying-in-state) to show they are about 'leaving'. So unless you're dead, your head should face the door when on the bed to show you're not 'leaving'.
ReplyDeleteI also also head that drinking soup prepared with wall gecko prevents bedwetting😡😡. I don't know if this is real or my dad just used it to scare us back then.
In some parts of Yorubaland. There is a tradition whereby a new mum eats what is called 'Ate' for 7days after delivery.
ReplyDelete'Ate' means the food will not have salt, maggi, locust beans or anything that has salt. Just pepper, palm oil and the rest will be in the food.
That's family tradition. In the Olomitutu family, if a woman that just give birth use hot water, her body will swell up like crazy
DeleteChai.....All these superstition,yet some of us involuntarily do as it says or avoid what it say we should not do. God have mercy on us.
ReplyDeletedont believe all that crap...as a child there were some that scared us sha and put us in bondage....e.g if someone bites you and you rub it with chicken shit the persons teeth will fall off, if you pee on the ground and someone crosses over your clitoris will swell up....if you see a monitor lizard a snake must be nearby...etc..for now only what God says define me
ReplyDeleteNawa o, so many superstitions.
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