Growing up we were raised mainly through superstition. Don’t cut your nails at night. Don’t take a bath after midnight. Don’t eat or drink water while standing. Those are some of the ones most people know. Salt doesn’t leave or enter the house at night is the most popular one.
But there were some that I only heard from my mother and my grandmother. My mom used to tell me not to say the word “gorilla” at night or else a gorilla will appear in my dreams or something like that, rather say the word “two” when you happen to mention anything about a gorilla. My grandmother’s favorite superstition was that whenever you see a spider in the house it means someone is coming to visit.
It was inaccurate in my opinion because every time schools closed we would flock my grandmother’s house, not because of the spider but because it was the best and most affordable vacation. There are some Superstitions that are popular in the township but are foreign for my Midrand, Sandton, Fourways, Rosebank and Centurion readers, if there’s any.
Here’s a list of five Superstitions you may not know about:
1. If you light a cigarette at the wrong end then your girlfriend is cheating on you at that moment – Just like a true superstition there’s no evidence to it. I’m not sure if it’s true or not but I can tell you that the other day I was at a shoot and I decided to take a smoking break and then it happened. I can’t say much but all I can say is that I called my girlfriend and she didn’t pick up the phone. So I still don’t know how to feel about this one. But it still scares me.
2. When you wear a hat that someone else was wearing you have to spit on it to avoid getting a headache – This is an old one, it was popular in the township. But it faded out as we grew up. Don’t get disgusted, it wasn’t actual saliva, it was just invisible saliva into the hat. Black people understand this type of spitting. We practice it in offices too.
3. If you keep a bottle of vodka, gin, whiskey closed after finishing the drink then everyone who was drinking whatever that was in that bottle will have a headache – I know, it’s beginning to look like all these Superstions are meant to protect you from having a headache. Superstions are made to protect you from yourself if you think about it.
4. If you buy shoes for your girlfriend she will walk away from you – yup, you heard right. If you are walking in a mall with your girlfriend and she sees a pair of shoes and you can afford it and she wants it, don’t do it. Pass that pair of shoes the same way you pass a red robot at night.
5. If you make fun of how people look then your children will end up looking like that – If that’s the case, I am going to have some weird looking children. Let’s just leave it at that.
Mthokozisi Nkamhule
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