Monday 30 May 2011

superstition

What do you think superstition? In Malaysia there are a lot of superstition in Selangor,Perak, and other states. In addition, every nation and culture will certainly have their own beliefs.Most superstitions have to do with luck. We all have the need to know "what will bring us luck?". What did we do to bring doom crashing on our heads? Was it something we did to bring it upon ourselves? All of the world is superstitious in one way or another...Some just don't admit it...Omens and signs indicate what the future might hold. "Red sky at night, sailors delight" indicates a fine day weather wise. "Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning" indicates bad stormy weather. You may cross your fingers for luck, avoid stepping under ladders to avoid bad luck. These actions of a superstitious person are intended to protect them from dangers.
I have compiled a list of well known superstitions. Some you may be familiar with while others may be something new to be fearful of.On this occasion I would like to explain a bit about the superstition of the various races in Malaysia namely Malay, Chinese and Indian. In the Chinese superstition they have soe faith in their live example number,pregnancy and Chinese New Year..for the number they believe that a few other numbers that are considered lucky in Chinese culture are 9 and 6...
 
9 is considered lucky because it is the largest single digit number, which promotes longevity. 6 is considered auspicious because it is a homonym for the word "flow." The pronunciation for the number 6 is “liu” and it means smooth in English. Therefore Chinese people often use 6 when they start a new business. The superstiton for Indian, The standard viewpoint is that most of the Indian beliefs and values have sprung with an objective to protect from evil spirits, but some were based on scientific reasoning. With the passage of time, the reasoning part behind the origin of these cultural beliefs and superstitions got eroded. That is exactly why most of these beliefs appear unsubstantiated and false. However, in reality, there are many such beliefs in the Indians culture which are absolutely absurd and have no logic behind them.


 For superstition in Malay, they are the divine and rare Javanese Malay superstitionbut is usually more to the dream of superstition such as when bitten by a snake, theperson who dreamed it would be in the nut. Message about superstition is very interesting to be heard. It depends on a person tobelieve or not, as a Muslim we should stick to religion.



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