SUPERSTITIONS IN TURKISH CULTURE
Have you ever pulled your hair when you saw a black cat? If your answer is "No", then, unfortunately, you have ill fortune! Of course I'm kidding. It's just a superstition, the belief that particular events bring good or bad luck without a logical explanation. In Turkish culture, there are too many superstitions that are believed by many people. Surely, you know most of the well-known superstitions such as the ones about broken mirror, underside of a ladder, owl, amulets or the most famous one: there cannot be a wedding between two holidays. Now, I want to talk about the less-known ones in order to show you how silly superstitions there are.
For example, when a man goes out hunting, his wife is supposed to throw a broom behind him. At night, people shouldn't chew a gum because the gum that is chewed at night is a meat of dead. It is believed especially in rural areas that when a wolf howls, a food falls from the sky to its mouth so that it shouldn't eat the cows. A person who sits at the front of a door falls into obloquy. When a baby's diapers are hung on a wild tree, the baby becomes wild while growing up. When a married woman drinks a half cup of tea, she becomes widow and remains so forever.
Now, this is very ridiculous: If a girl walks under the rainbow, she turns into a boy and likewise, if a boy walks under the rainbow, he turns into a girl. So funny! :)
I can't write all of the superstitions but these are the most absurd ones. I hope you have laughed like me while reading. :)
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