A BV says ''I overheard a lady saying in Akwa ibom, if you perceive one else's urine it will cause you bad luck...
Another person says '' I gave a lady a massage, after it she asked me to hit my Palms on the floor three times, until now she didn't tell me any good reason for that ..se na so Dem dey do for their place)
I hear that Some people don't sweep their houses at night,because it allegedly causes bad luck
Another person says '' I gave a lady a massage, after it she asked me to hit my Palms on the floor three times, until now she didn't tell me any good reason for that ..se na so Dem dey do for their place)
I hear that Some people don't sweep their houses at night,because it allegedly causes bad luck
Some say, you don't sleep with your legs directly facing the door. That's the position for dead Bodies...
Some say Bride price can't be paid when a girl is pregnant,that it's an abomination
Some don't look at the mirror at night and i dont know why..
Some say You don't count a child's teeth.. etc
Which ones do you know?which are in existence in your family or village?or which one did you hear of that ''offed'' you?
I'm from Akwa Ibom, and I've never heard that stuff before. All these strange beliefs sef, 🙄🙄🙄🙄, I don't believe in them. As for tradition, 🚶🚶🚶🚶
ReplyDeleteReally? Aw! See my tribe woman oh 😍
DeleteFrom akwa ibom too and haven't heard of such. My sister Candy😘😘😘
DeleteAnon 14:13, my person,🤗🤗🤗🤗
DeleteSonia darling, didn't know you're an Akwa Ibomite oooo. 😘😘😘😘
DeleteI am from Akwa ibom also and i haven't heard of that apart from the pregnant one. Most family don't accept bribe price if their daughter is pregnant until she has given birth.
DeleteI don't do superstitious beliefs
DeleteHello PattyB🤗🤗
Delete@Adivincci, I just think it's crap.
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DeleteGreetings to you all from your sister here in Ibadan❤❤❤
@I said what I said, my sister, I greet you from Lasgidi oo🤗🤗🤗🤗
DeleteAwwwww, see my sister o😍😍😍.
DeleteI've never heard that too.
Anon 14:13 I see you🥰🥰🥰
DeleteCandy love. Yes, I am oh😘😘😘
Patty. I see you my sister💕💕💕
I said what I said. I heart you😍😍
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@I am Selena, my darling sister, I greet you o. 😘😘😘
DeleteThat you don't sweep your house in the night seem universal. But I do. Much more than that in the night.
ReplyDeleteI heard that when I was in secondary school, and that's when I will carry broom to sweep my corner.
DeleteI sweep the floor every night before spreading Mat to sleep
DeleteSome say you don't take an infant to a mirror.
ReplyDeleteOn my mums place,you don't accept public drink with your left hand and also,it must be supported with your left hand and one of your knees touching the ground.
They say that if you show an infant a mirror, it won't grow teeth but it's pure lies. I don't know the logic behind it still.
DeleteLmao. My friend was warned vigorously by a Jamaican lady in the bathroom against letting her kids see themselves in those big mirrors. Lmao. Mirror wey I use pacify all my kids when they cry. Lol
DeleteI was at a salon once and made friends with this lovely baby girl who kept giggling with me. I couldn't resist so I asked her mum to let me hold her and I held her up infront of a mirror telling her to see how beautiful she was. Her mum flipped and said you shouldn't hold a baby in front of a mirror or they'll be possessed by evil spirits and grabbed her baby back. I have never held a stranger's baby unless I was asked to help since that day.
DeleteYoruba- You don't throw a baby's bath water outside at night except you light a stick of matches inside the baby's water bath
ReplyDeleteEhn ehnn, hearing this for the first time.
DeleteHmmm. Really?
DeleteHmmmm!
Delete🙄 like seriously?
DeleteAfter washing bitterleaf, you're expected to throw the water inside the Bush. It's believed that, any young unmarried lady that crosses the water automatically becomes barren.
ReplyDeleteAnother one is, my grandpa never allowed any menstruating woman to enter his yam barn. Said it brings badluck.
While growing up, we were never allowed to call each others name at night. You hear things like 'small sister, big sister, middle sister, last brother'. E plenty.
😂😂😂😂😂 small sister, bbig sister, really. 😂😂😂
DeleteLoling at your last paragraph😂😂😂😂
DeleteThank God you do not have 9 siblings...I wonder how you would share the positions. 1st brother, second to the last sister etc?
DeleteAre you sure your grandpa wasn't a traditionalist? I've heard that people who do juju don't pass under a woman's underwear when spread on a rope or come close to a menstruating woman as this spoils juju
Delete😂🤣😂 small sister last brother
Delete🤣🤣🤣🤣 @ big brother etc...
DeleteHahahahahahahahahaha. Small sister, big sister etc.....
DeleteHahahhaha. This made me laugh @ big sister, middle sister, last brother 😂😂😂😂
DeleteSee to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.(Col. 2:8)
ReplyDeleteI don't subscribe to all those superstitions. By the Grace of God, I am
a citizen of heaven and my life is guided by God's Word and not by vain myths.
People who follow these myths are in bondage to the elemental forces of this world.
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I love how you refer to God's word in most topics.
DeleteWeldone.
If you cross a woman lying down she go born pikin when resemble you.
ReplyDeleteYou don’t whistle or write on the sand at night.
I heard this too
DeleteSomeone was talking about giving "even numbers" to someone in Yoruba few days ago on the Blog..
ReplyDeleteThat you can only give someone 2,4,6 things and not 1,3,5,7 etc..
How true is it?
@MARTINS
Very true. Yoruba culture you don’t give odd numbers. We strongly believe in even things. I can’t gift you one orange....
DeleteIs true in Yoruba land,u can only give someone wt can be divide,u can gv 12 bt u can't give 11,if u have 11 u shld rather gv d person 10,I don't d reason
Delete@Olayemi so if I give someone 1cow for Ileya or Christmas, them go say I go complete am 2😂
DeleteOlayemi Lylon!!!!
DeleteOlayemi Lylon!!!!
See I haf greet you 2 times, na even number be dat o!
I heard my father's family don't use hot water to bathe. But I do ooo. Thou my Dad didn't tell us about it, we got to know when my sis went to spend a week at my Aunty place and she was surprised my sister wanted to use hot water to take her bathe and asked if she was not told by my Dad that is against the family belief.
ReplyDeleteAh ah. So if they travel abroad nko, and it's snowing, dem go still baff cold water??
DeleteI once had a neighbor with such tradition/belief.
DeleteMy mother dont use hot water in their family ,if they try to use hot water all her body will be swollen,will have terrible cold and be shivering
DeleteSo cold go kill them during harmattan morning be that😂
DeleteThis one strong oh.
DeletePneumonia is real....
DeleteYoruba- You don't throw a baby's bath water outside at night except you light a stick of matches inside the baby's water bath
ReplyDeleteI heard you shouldn't whistle at night.
ReplyDeleteI don't believe these things.
I was told that if you are on your period (ladies) you shouldn't cook moi moi that it won't form well or you place knife/stone on the cover of the pot whilst cooking the moi moi.
ReplyDeleteNow, this is hilarious. 😂😂😂😂
DeleteSo I heard.
DeleteLol
DeleteEleyi tun yato o😁
Yes ooo,if I want To cook moimoi I put knife on it,even if am not on my period,if I don't,d moimoi wil nt be well cooked.
DeleteInteresting 😂😂...because I am actually on my period and I prepared moi moi today. Formed wella and tasted like a havard graduate... I can give you some... Except of course you can't eat moi moi prepared by someone who is in her menses.
Delete'Menses'??? in 2020???
DeleteSome of you are so unbelievably razz...
Story... Add enough ingredients and little water, it will come out well...
DeleteAnd I'm a Yoruba girl.. And I don't know anything I've been reading here since o!!!🤔
DeleteThis particular one carry pikin for back.. 😂🤣
All the above small nah. I hear say some people dey baf naked! Imagine the abomination!
ReplyDeleteSee craze 😂😂😂😂
DeleteYou no well o @Lol!, you want wear cloth bath before 😂😂😂😂
DeleteHmmm bathe naked? Now why would someone commit such atrocity?
DeleteLol you are not serious
DeleteMy uncle,a black America, one time I was sweeping or sort of I can’t really remember but the broom got close to him and my uncle flipped he ask to spit on the broom,and the broom should be locked in a cupboard else it’s bad luck and it means he will go to jail soon🤣🤣🤣 I thought he was joking until I saw his seriousness I just let him do whatever he pleases. He is from South Carolina btw.
ReplyDelete😂😂😂😂
Delete😂😂😂
DeleteYour uncle hand dey inside something. E do voodoo
DeleteI heard that ladies don't climb trees in some communities.
ReplyDelete😂😂😂😂. Na wa o. I climbed trees wella.
DeleteThe Ijaws' in my area said is an abomination for husband and wife (boyfriend and girlfriend) to give head and BJ to each other...
ReplyDeleteIs an abomination for the male gender to use bucket use female gender to bath or bucket use to wash cloth to bath.....
This one, na real wa
DeleteSo true.but civilization has opened the eyes of so many who are kicking against it now.
DeleteAs for fellatio n cunninlingus,so many are doing it codedly but if caught,.....
You don't sweep with local broom wen u or anyone in the house has measles or chicken pox and you don't put on earrings or necklace. My friends were surprised I was doing all mentioned wen I had measles as I wasn't even aware, And notin do me.
ReplyDeleteTrue,we don't sweep if anyone have measles.
DeleteMy children had measles,my neighbor said no using of broom to sweep till the measles is gone which I told her my her I cant do without sweeping and I dont want my house to get dirty after all I serve a living God not broom.my children are healthy till date.
DeleteI heard that is not good for a Snake to bite a lady when menstruating..
ReplyDeleteI heard it not good to cross bitterleaf water
All na superstitious belief😂😂😂😂😂
You don't look at mirror in the nigjt😂😂😂😂
Shouting of someone's name at night is not good😂😂😂😂
Is it good for the lady to be bitten when she's ovulating 😂🤣😃😆?
Delete😂😂😂Like there is a good time for snake to bite person.
DeleteWhen is it ever good for snake to bite a lady.
DeleteBut snake bite is dangerous any time...🤷🤷🤷
DeleteSee question oh😂😂😂😂
DeleteThere is one big river in my town. They told us that before the river settled there,my town and the river had a covenant that it will never drown any indigenes of my town. This river swallow many people that are not from my town, In 2001, for the first time in history, this river drown a girl of 16yrs. The elders went to the river and gave it one week to provide the girl alive or else. They keep on going to the river everyday to check. One the third day, they saw the girl beside the river unconscious. They took her home and perform some cleansing. It took this girl almost 6months to come back to her right sense. Up till now the girl did not say what happened nor what she saw. The lady is now married with kids.
ReplyDelete😱😱😱😱😱
DeleteWow!
DeleteOr else? What would the elders have done to the river? Drain it? Burn it?
DeletePower of covenant!
DeleteHmmmmmm
Yepa! Eleyi le gan o.
Delete😱😱😱😱😱😱
Delete😱😱😱😱😱😱😱 but what would have happened to the river if it didn't release the girl??
DeleteNow, this is really strange...
Castle plx🤣🤣🤣🤣
DeleteI'm eating peppered chicken, dont wanna choke.
Golibe, it would be sent away. A river in my hometown was sent away for the same reason. You'd wake up one morning, the vast flowing river would be gone. It will just disappear. Juju dey sha.
DeleteIn my family, whenever any of my sister in-law ( brothers wife) put to bed, she won't eat any food cooked with salt, pepper and palm oil for eight days, we call it ATE. We are Yoruba.
ReplyDeleteWow
DeleteAh ah. Anne dearie, the food no go get taste naa
DeleteMy former neighbour too do this
DeleteMy former neighbor too used to do this, they're Egun
Delete@Candy, yes the food won't have taste, that's the meaning of ATE ie tasteless.
DeleteSame tradition with my brother in law’s family. If you give birth to a male child, you must eat “ate” for 7 days.
DeleteWhat of cubes like Maggi and other spices???
DeleteNone Oh jare
ReplyDeleteI don't believe in such.
They are all superstitious belief.
I'm from Akwa Ibom State too, never heard of such before 🤷 if it were so my mum would have told us. Though, we don't eat three leaves yam, they said it's abominable. Me, myself and I don't believe. Would have given it a try😇 just that I don't like it
ReplyDeleteI had that when someone's tooth removes,you should throw it on top of the room to be able to grow back.
ReplyDeleteAll this are hilarious.
I heard that you do not whistle at night as you may be calling on spirits.
ReplyDeleteYou dont give pepper,broom,okpeye to someone hand to hand,drop it on the floor for the person to pick.
ReplyDeleteMy mum does these wella🤣🤣🤣
DeleteYoruba belief is too much,u mst not sit at d entrance to eat,no mater hw plenty d food is u won't be satisfied,if u ar pregnant u mst nt sleep wt ur back bt sleep wt side,if not ur child eyes will b lookn half past.
ReplyDeleteMedically pregnant women don't sleep on their back..
DeleteNot true..I slept most times on my back when i was pregnant.my boys eyes are as sexy as u can imagine
DeletePretty B
ReplyDeleteCandy
Visy dreams and
Sonia
Are Akwa Ibomites😍 aw! I'm happy to know
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DeleteGood... Family meeting has started...
DeleteYes oh😍😍😍
DeleteI learnt that most of those strange belief is actually said to put fear of doing the wrong things in the olden days. Like, when they if you sit at the entrance of a house to eat, that you will never be satisfy. The elders say this to put fears in the heart of that child so that in case someone want to enter the house, dirt will not enter you food and cause you harm. Same thing like putting a child by the mirror, that the child might be curious to see his or her image and mistakingly break the glass,that can end up hurting him/ her. So it just made believe to scare children.
ReplyDeleteIn my place if another person carries a baby from the mothers back the person has to pinch the mothers back.....they still haven't told me why🤷🤷
ReplyDeleteIf you lend someone money on monday people will ask you to lend them money throughout that week.
ReplyDeleteMy Akwaibom sisters, ekom dooo.
ReplyDeleteA pregnant woman should always put safety pin on her cloth always and should not walk outside between 12 noon and 3pm. That evil spirits walk around that time. And if it is compulsory she has to go somewhere, then she should put a stone in her bag or hold it on her hand.
ReplyDeleteYou must remove pot cover before bringing down from fire else you will give birth to a deaf and dumb child
ReplyDeleteWomen,hustle oo so that if you and your husband quarrel and he says you should get out of his house,you can open your mouth and say,'I am not going anywhere. I pay rent too.
ReplyDeleteLol
DeleteIf a snake sees a pregnant woman, it becomes paralysed and will not run away untill its killed.
ReplyDeleteIf a snake sees a pregnant woman, it becomes paralysed and will not run away untill its killed.
ReplyDeleteMy grandmother once told me that if a woman was married to an old man and she wasn't sexually satisfied, or the man was impotent, she could approach the 'ekpashi' (elderly decision-making women of the clan and ask to find a young man or young men who could sexually satisfy her. This is on the condition that whoever she chose would be known to them ( the ekpashi), and any children she gets from this affair would belong to her husband and bear his name.
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