superstitions

• When a deceased's eyes remain open, it is a sign that someone from the family will soon follow. • Eggshells should not be thrown into the fire, because chickens will dry their anus and will not lay more eggs. • Whoever sleeps in a bed with their feet towards the street will die. • When a lit match is thrown to the ground, and it does not go out, it is the omen of a near death. • A woman, during menstruation, cannot make butter, mayonnaise, touch or prepare milk or dairy products, water the plants, feed the animals ... butter or mayonnaise will not bind, the milk will cut, the plants they will dry out, the animals will die, especially young or foreign babies, or their food will be spoiled, or they will huddle. This superstition is related to the purity and impurity of women, and coincides with related superstitions in the current Islamic world. • "Money or sticks". If you feel itchy or itchy palms, you are going to receive money, or you are going to receive sticks. • ...

Superstitions against evil or against bad luck • Certain actions are traditionally considered as spells or acts against evil, evil spirits, witches and bad luck, and are performed to protect, deflect, avoid or reject them: Possess amulets or objects that protect from bad luck or witches , such as always carrying a chestnut collected on Saint John's Day or Night, or • In Aragon, put earrings made with juniper twigs to the sheep. • Pour salt behind the shoulder, to appease the evil spirits behind the person. • Touching a wooden object when hearing something that is considered inauspicious, as some cultures believe that they have magical properties or you can make a wish. • When rats leave a ship it is because it is going to sink. • When animals leave a place it is because a disaster is coming. • Have an altar with stamps of saints and virgins at home. • Light a candle to a saint, in a Catholic church or at home. • Do a "cleanup" using white magic with a witch or healer. • ...

Superstitions that would create misfortune  •Folding the used napkin, or keeping a napkin in your napkin holder at the end of a meal will break friendship. • Verbally mention or formulate anything undesirable or unfortunate (see curse). • To counteract misfortune, wood must be touched immediately. • Breaking a mirror, doing it you have 7 years of bad luck. • Passing under a ladder leaning against a wall, the ladder with the floor surfaces and the wall form a triangle, representing the Trinity.  Therefore, crossing it was an attempt against said dogma, or it also represents a gateway to the spirit world. • Cross a black cat. • Spill salt: the salt, in the Antiquity, represented wealth.  Apparently, this myth has its origin in the fact that, once Rome conquered and razed the city of Carthage, the Roman soldiers poured salt on the remains of the city, so that no plant would grow again in it;  or that in Antiquity it was common to pay with salt, (hence the salary arises)...