SUPERSTITIONS

5 example

:: Umbrellas inside the house - you will drown the next time you swim; or, opening an umbrella indoors will bring you bad luck .

:: When you are getting married, do not wear your wedding gown before the wedding or else your wedding will canceled.

:: No reds allowed - Don't wear red when there's lightning, or else it may strike you.

:: Don't go to sleep at night with wet hair or else snakes will sleep with you.

:: If you are pregnant, eat bananas so that you can have twin.

why people believe these superstitions?

-Those are some superstitions that come from several cultural . People nowadays believe these because these superstitions are already practice by our previous great grandfather. It was really close to us,sometimes it just to make us beware and alert with what happened surrounding us. it was not compulsory to us to believe all these kind of superstitions because it just a reminder for us.

opinion towards these issue?

- This issue quite interesting and familiar among us. Not only Malay, but Chinese ,India or others cultures also practice their own kind of superstitions. Sometimes its sound nonsense but actually it also give us a good sign in order to do something that relates with nature. For example, in a Malay culture, we are advise not to give money to other people at night because it many of Malay people believe that we will get many loss if cash out some money at night. So, for me, there is no right or wrong if we believe or not about the superstitions but it is about how we alert on something that happens around us and think of its good or bad.