20 STUPID AND FOOLISH BUT KINDA TRUE SUPERSTITIONS IN NIGERIA.

My honorable ladies and gentlemen, how una dey? Me ayam doing very well. See wetin I bring for una today. I no well abi? You go soon discover. These 25 superstitions are believed by Nigerians, especially the Yorubas to be true. And seriously, me sef sometimes I consciously and unconsciously fear most of them.

1. Don't step on someone else's spit or else you go get cough.....Hehehe. So, na wetin dey cause my cough be this?
2. As a pregnant woman, don't let anyone cross over your legs when you're sitting down, or your child will look like the person.....my mum allowed the comedian, Omo Baba number one to cross over her legs, that's why I look like him.
3. If you sleep facing the ceiling, a cockroach will cross over you.
4. Any girl who can whistle is a witch.....Haaaa! So, Tolani is a witch? My younger sister too can whistle ooo, that one too na witch?
5. Never look at a cat closely cuz when they spit into your eyes, you'll go blind.

6. If frogs, toads or one of their type jumps on you, it'll turn you into a frog.
7. Don't sweep your feet or others feet while sweeping the floor or they will go to jail.
8. Don't walk with one shoe on, bad luck.
9. Don't open an umbrella in the house, bad luck......me wey don open plenty umbrella inside house nko?
10. Don't break a mirror, seven years of bad luck......Mogbe oooo. Only God knows how many mirror I don break.

11. Don't draw lines on the floor because if an ant goes into it, your mum will die.......my mum is still alive ooooo.
12. If you stole anything, don't stay outside during thunderstorms because you might be struck.......so, why am I still alive?
13. If someone steps on the clipped fingernail of another person, they will have a fight with that person.
14. If you serve or pass anything to anyone with your left hand, it's a sign of disrespect......I agree to this.
15. It is believed that whistling in the rain invites lightning strike to the whistler.

16. A male child that mistakenly falls off his mother's back will outlive all his wives, no matter how many they are.
17. To mistakenly wear one's cloth inside out or to accidentally kick a stone with the left leg is believed to bring bad luck.
18. If the ear suddenly itches while one is having a discussion is a sign that that person is being gossiped about.
19. Whoever is eating should not pick and eat any food particles on the ground if they do not want to incur the wrath of the deities.
20. Two or more people defecating together in the brush should allow sufficient spaces in-between them otherwise they will have albino children......this must have been what Tunde's dad did that made Tunde an albino.

How far? Do you believe in superstition? Let's gist, drop a comment. And if you've got some stupid and foolish but kinda true superstitions, let us lean from you too.

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