In Korea, there's a thing called "Jung", which translates into feeling/affection.

When a person gives food on someone's plate, they give at least 2 scoops, lest a person's jung decreases with only 1 scoop.

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Lol my parents told me something similar when I was a kid. They told me that when I died all the food I wasted would be stuffed into my mouth and my mouth would be sown shut.... maybe my version is a little darker 🤣

omg I heard that one too! 🤣 I was a very picky eater so I've been told amost all the stupid old wives' tale about food.

And the cutting nails at night too, but the version I know is that a witch might get a hold of your nail clippings and put a curse on you.

if that story about food is true then i bed a bunch of tomatos followed by a zoo, will fight their way into my belly on the day of my death..
and i have a story about nails.
my gramma told me that if ill keep biting them, a tree of nails will grow in my belly.

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if that story about food is true then i bed a bunch of tomatos followed by a zoo, will fight their way into my belly on the day of my death..
and i have a story about nails.
my gramma told me that if ill keep biting them, a tree of nails will grow in my belly.

My old man said the same about fruit seeds to me when I was a kid. I didn't believe him and would swallow them purposely in front of him to prove it. My mom got the same story when she was 5 and fell for it. She cried because she thought a tree would sprout outta her head and she won't fit through the door to get back home. She laughs her ass off every time she talks about it now.

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Here are more Silly Superstitions 🙂
Never open an umbrella indoors 🙂

It is bad luck to kill a ladybug. 🙂

If you see a crow hold your breath cause it could be carrying a soul back to the living
or to the land of the dead. 🙂

Never step on a person's shadow, as you are stepping on her/his spirit. 🙂

Never sweep out your house after it gets dark, as you will be sweeping away your wealth. 🙂

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Never step on a person's shadow, as you are stepping on her/his spirit. 🙂

How sad! I do that all the time with my friends, we look soo idiotic 😛

It's bad luck to:
-pass a graveyard without holding your breath (which sucks cuz I've got one in walking distance from my house so we drive by it all the time 🤣 )
-go under a tunnel/bridge without holding your breath (which also sucks when you're driving on the freeway and major roads and such 😎 )

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here are more:

Mistletoe in the house protects it from thunder and lightning. It also cures many diseases, is an antidote to poison and brings good luck and fertility.

If you drop scissors, it means your lover is being unfaithful to you.

A girl standing under a mistletoe cannot refuse to be kissed by anyone who claims the privilege.

It's bad luck to leave shoes upside down.

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It's bad luck to:
-pass a graveyard without holding your breath (which sucks cuz I've got one in walking distance from my house so we drive by it all the time 🤣 )
-go under a tunnel/bridge without holding your breath (which also sucks when you're driving on the freeway and major roads and such 😎 )

Haha if that was true Id be screwed... I live in SoCal and I pass under about 5 bridges just going to school. Here's another superstition:

Don't stick your chopsticks straight up in a bowl of rice. Not quite sure what's supposed to happen but it probably involves X years of bad luck.

@shade449: ooh i learned this in jap class. if you stick them straight up, you'll die an early death. something about buddhist death ceremonies or something...? same for crossing chopsticks with another person. buddhist juju comes for you. that's why you never pass chopstick-chopstick. you place the food on their plate.

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I know another one but I forgot how it went so I searched Google and found it
BLOODY MARY!!

Urban Legend: Chanting "Bloody Mary!" thirteen times in front of a candlelit mirror in an otherwise dark room will summon her vengeful spirit.

The Story: Go into a room with a mirror and turn all the lights off. Bathrooms seem to be perfect for this since they almost always have a mirror and are usually dark at night with the lights off and the door closed. Light a candle, look into the mirror, start chanting "Bloody Mary" . You have to do this 13 times, of course. You should see Bloody Mary behind your left shoulder after the thirteenth time.

Beware, she has been reported to 1.) Kill the person calling her, 2.) Scratch their eyes out, 3.) Drive the person mad or 4.) pull the person into the mirror with her. This is an old legend, it has been around for ages. A folklorist, Janet Langlois, published an essay on the legend back in 1978. At that time, the legend was wide spread across the USA and a popular slumber party ritual done by girls as well as boys. No one knows the true origins of the Bloody Mary tale, she's been known to be anything from a witch that was killed for practicing witchcraft to a modern day woman killed in a car crash, depending on what part of the country you live in. It was made popular again in the film Urban Legends in 1999.

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I know another one but I forgot how it went so I searched Google and found it
BLOODY MARY!!

Urban Legend: Chanting "Bloody Mary!" thirteen times in front of a candlelit mirror in an otherwise dark room will summon her vengeful spirit.

The Story: Go into a room with a mirror and turn all the lights off. Bathrooms seem to be perfect for this since they almost always have a mirror and are usually dark at night with the lights off and the door closed. Light a candle, look into the mirror, start chanting "Bloody Mary" . You have to do this 13 times, of course. You should see Bloody Mary behind your left shoulder after the thirteenth time.

Beware, she has been reported to 1.) Kill the person calling her, 2.) Scratch their eyes out, 3.) Drive the person mad or 4.) pull the person into the mirror with her. This is an old legend, it has been around for ages. A folklorist, Janet Langlois, published an essay on the legend back in 1978. At that time, the legend was wide spread across the USA and a popular slumber party ritual done by girls as well as boys. No one knows the true origins of the Bloody Mary tale, she's been known to be anything from a witch that was killed for practicing witchcraft to a modern day woman killed in a car crash, depending on what part of the country you live in. It was made popular again in the film Urban Legends in 1999.

my history teacher said the superstition came from mary, queen of scots.. but then again, he thought the name youtube originated from the U2 spy plane.

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I know another one but I forgot how it went so I searched Google and found it
BLOODY MARY!!

Urban Legend: Chanting "Bloody Mary!" thirteen times in front of a candlelit mirror in an otherwise dark room will summon her vengeful spirit.

The Story: Go into a room with a mirror and turn all the lights off. Bathrooms seem to be perfect for this since they almost always have a mirror and are usually dark at night with the lights off and the door closed. Light a candle, look into the mirror, start chanting "Bloody Mary" . You have to do this 13 times, of course. You should see Bloody Mary behind your left shoulder after the thirteenth time.

Beware, she has been reported to 1.) Kill the person calling her, 2.) Scratch their eyes out, 3.) Drive the person mad or 4.) pull the person into the mirror with her. This is an old legend, it has been around for ages. A folklorist, Janet Langlois, published an essay on the legend back in 1978. At that time, the legend was wide spread across the USA and a popular slumber party ritual done by girls as well as boys. No one knows the true origins of the Bloody Mary tale, she's been known to be anything from a witch that was killed for practicing witchcraft to a modern day woman killed in a car crash, depending on what part of the country you live in. It was made popular again in the film Urban Legends in 1999.

my history teacher said the superstition came from mary, queen of scots.. but then again, he thought the name youtube originated from the U2 spy plane.

The first Time I heard this was when I was 4th grade in Fresno, CA

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@shade449: ooh i learned this in jap class. if you stick them straight up, you'll die an early death. something about buddhist death ceremonies or something...? same for crossing chopsticks with another person. buddhist juju comes for you. that's why you never pass chopstick-chopstick. you place the food on their plate.

What I've heard is that sticking the chopsticks straight up in the rice is similar to making an offering to the dead - though I believe that in actual offerings, it's a stick of incense stuck vertically in a bowl of rice.

Passing food chopstick-to-chopstick is a no-no because during some funeral practices, the cremated remains are passed from one person's tongs to another's.

I haven't heard anything specific like "you'll be the next to die" or "ten years bad luck", just that it's considered generally a bad thing to do.

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@shade449: ooh i learned this in jap class. if you stick them straight up, you'll die an early death. something about buddhist death ceremonies or something...? same for crossing chopsticks with another person. buddhist juju comes for you. that's why you never pass chopstick-chopstick. you place the food on their plate.

What I've heard is that sticking the chopsticks straight up in the rice is similar to making an offering to the dead - though I believe that in actual offerings, it's a stick of incense stuck vertically in a bowl of rice.

Passing food chopstick-to-chopstick is a no-no because during some funeral practices, the cremated remains are passed from one person's tongs to another's.

I haven't heard anything specific like "you'll be the next to die" or "ten years bad luck", just that it's considered generally a bad thing to do.

yeah, i'm not all that confident in my memory, so you're most likely correct.

@figs19: really?? i heard those stories when i was like... 6. that's why i'd always wake both of my parents up before i went to the bathroom--to let them know what happened to me if they didn't see me the next morning.

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@figs19: really?? i heard those stories when i was like... 6. that's why i'd always wake both of my parents up before i went to the bathroom--to let them know what happened to me if they didn't see me the next morning.

I was the same way too,
Then I didn't care anymore so I wasn't scarred anymore then I forgot about it till now when I remembered it again from reading this topic.