| In this article we present a collection of | | | | advisable to wash one's face after escorting |
| local "superstitions" in Indonesia regarding | | | | a coffin to its grave so as to avoid being |
| everyday life and the meanings of the omens | | | | followed by the ghost of the deceased.If a |
| of Nature.Avoid sweeping the house at night | | | | lamp goes off in a room where the deceased is |
| as this would make it difficult to attract | | | | kept prior to burial, indicates that another |
| luck.Avoid sewing a button on your shirt | | | | member of the family will soon face death.It |
| while wearing it as this would cause a | | | | isa advisable for a pregnant mother to look |
| serious illness not long after that would | | | | at beautiful pictures so that her baby would |
| last for about a month and you woud always | | | | be born beautiful as well.It is advisable for |
| fail in your efforts in making a living.Avoid | | | | a pregnant mother not to be sad during |
| combimg your hair while walking as you will | | | | pregnancy as this would cause the child to be |
| find youself in an embarassing | | | | born to become a whiner.Avoid habitually |
| situation.Avoid being in the bathroom too | | | | biting the lower lip as this causes bad |
| long as this would make your face appear | | | | luck.Avoid habitually biting the upper lip as |
| old.Avoid taking a bath or shower during | | | | this would cause lots of monetary debts in |
| afternoon hours as this would accelerate the | | | | life.Avoid pretending to cry as this would |
| aging process.An unmarried woman should avoid | | | | cause one's parents to be quickly |
| washing her hair on a Saturday as this would | | | | deceased.Avoid mistreating one's daughter as |
| cause her to marry a man difficult to | | | | this would cause her to be mistreated later |
| please.If you come across a piece of cayene | | | | on by her husband.Avoid singing or whistling |
| chili in a pan for no apparent reason, this | | | | while at a meal as this causes failures in |
| is a sign that a disaster is about to | | | | one's endeavours.Avoid beating one's daughter |
| occur.If someone cooks a meal that is too | | | | at her buttocks as this would cause her later |
| salty, this is a sign that the person is in | | | | on to become sexually hyperactive and would |
| love and wishes to marry.Avoid eating rice | | | | cause much domestic problems.Avoid making |
| from a small plate as this would cause your | | | | payments at night as this would result in bad |
| close relations to spurn you.Avoid eating | | | | luck and bankrupcy.Women should avoid pulling |
| from the corner of a table as this would | | | | the hairs of their eyebrows as this would |
| cause problems with the in-laws and your | | | | result in frgidity and difficulty in |
| marriage will be in a wreck.Avoid eating in | | | | acquiring sexual satisfaction.Avoid cleaning |
| front of the door as this would cause one | | | | the ears at night as this would result in bad |
| difficulty in finding a marriage | | | | luck.One should avoid whistling often in |
| partner.Children should avoid moving places | | | | one's home as this would attract negative |
| at the table during a meal as this would | | | | entities.One should avoid giving |
| cause them to have a step-father or | | | | handkerchiefs to one's lover as this would |
| mother.Children should eat alot of chicken | | | | result in a break in the relationship.Avoid |
| wings if they wish to eventually visit | | | | taking pictures with odd-numbers of people |
| overseas.If you have a bad feeling when you | | | | present as this would result in the quick |
| are about to leave the house--then don't! As | | | | death of one of them.Avoid opening umbrellas |
| this is a sign that something disastrous | | | | in the home as this would result in |
| might occur while out.Avoid building a house | | | | difficulties in life.Avoid wiping one's face |
| facing north as this would cause the owner to | | | | with a shirt as this would result in the |
| fail to acquire riches.Avoid building a house | | | | indifference of others towards oneself.Avoid |
| facing an open field as this would cause the | | | | looking at onseself in the mirror too often |
| owner to become spendrift.Avoid building a | | | | as this would result in others being bored |
| kitchen facing the front door as this would | | | | and repulsed with one.Avoid peeping at others |
| cause sorrows and sufferings because of | | | | bathing as this would cause one's eyes to |
| money.Avoid building a garage at the back of | | | | swell.Avoid eating a meal before the elders |
| the house as this would always cause | | | | have done so as this would result in bad |
| unfortunate circumstances.Avoid building a | | | | luck.Avoid cutting one's hair in one's home |
| wall fence as high as 2-3 meters around the | | | | at night as this would attract negative |
| home as this would cause bankrupcy and to be | | | | entities that would appear in one's |
| stranded by one's business partners.Avoid | | | | dreams.Avoid wearing red or green swimwear at |
| building a pool inside the house as this | | | | beaches as this would result in the wearer |
| would cause bad luck and the members of the | | | | becoming a bride or bridegroom to spirit |
| family will alternately be stricken with | | | | entities (incubus, succubus).Avoid shouting |
| illnesses.Avoid building a house with no back | | | | or using vulgar words while in the woods or |
| door as the dwellers will always be | | | | wilderness as this would cause oneself to be |
| physically ill.While moving house it is | | | | possessed by negative entities.If you begin |
| advisable to take along some soil from the | | | | menstruating on a Sunday you will meet an old |
| garden of the old home and sprinkle it in the | | | | friend.If you begin menstruating on a Monday |
| vicinity of the new so as to perpetuate the | | | | you will soon acquire luck.If you begin |
| harmony established.Avoid scratching one's | | | | menstruating on a Tuesday you will soon be |
| head while being sexually intimate as this | | | | enjoying yourself in the following days.If |
| would result in bad luck and slander from | | | | you begin menstruating on a Wednesday you |
| people.Avoid looking at the sexual organs of | | | | will soon clash with someone.If you begin |
| your spouse while intercourse as this would | | | | menstruating on a Thursday you will soon |
| result in bad luck for a week.Avoid | | | | experience unfortunate incidents and be in |
| intercourse commencing from the seventh-month | | | | much sorrow.If you begin menstruating on a |
| pregnency as this would cause the child to be | | | | Friday you will soon have fun.If you begin |
| unfaithful and disrespectful towards the | | | | menstruating on a Saturday you will soon have |
| parents.Avoid slaughtering an animal when | | | | a pleasant surprise.If a dog howls at |
| your wife is pregnent as this would cause the | | | | midnight signifies a visit from ancestral |
| child to be born with a scar on its | | | | spirits.If a dog howls as though weeping at |
| neck.Avoid hunting or torturing an animal | | | | midnight signifies death in the familyIf a |
| when your wife is pregnent as this would | | | | dog howls past midnight signifies a wandering |
| cause your child to resemble the animal.Avoid | | | | earthbound spirit in the premises.It is said |
| disliking someone intensely while pregnent as | | | | that the blood of a black dog is capable of |
| this would cause your child to adopt the | | | | exorcising possessing spirits.It is advisable |
| features of the disliked person.Avoid mocking | | | | for pregnant women to place a pair of |
| at a handicapped person during pregnency as | | | | scissors underneath the pillow while sleeping |
| this would cause your child to be born | | | | to protect against psychic attack and black |
| disabled.Avoid keeping a spoon with the salt | | | | magick.Avoid urinating at the foot of big |
| container during pregnency as this would | | | | trees as this would inflame the tree-spirits |
| cause difficulties during labor.Avoid | | | | and cause them to possess oneself.Avoid |
| standing at the front door in the evenings | | | | keeping the dust or soil from a grave as this |
| during pregnancy as this would cause negative | | | | would cause the spirit related to the grave |
| spirits to attack the fetus.Avoid wearing | | | | to haunt the place where the soil is |
| earings commencing from the third month of | | | | kept.Placing red onions, chillis and turmeric |
| pregnency as this would cause you to dream of | | | | in a bag and hung above the front door |
| being intimate with your husband whereas in | | | | protects the house and family against black |
| reality it is an incubus impersonating him.A | | | | magick and negative entities.If a cat licks |
| man should avoid eating while lying down as | | | | one's foot signifies that someone close to us |
| this would cause his wife to have | | | | will acquire a windfall within one month. |
| difficulties during labor.It is unfortunate | | | | |
| if a guest suddenly gives birth in your home | | | | If a sparrow finds its way in one's home |
| as this causes bad luck. It is advisable to | | | | signifies a marriage in one's family.If a |
| move house quickly.It is advisable to open | | | | butterfly finds its way in one'shome |
| the doors and windows of your home so that | | | | signifies a visit from an important |
| your wife will give birth without | | | | visitor.Avoid giving a cat a bath as this |
| complications.It is advisable to bury the | | | | would result in storms and hurricanes.Carry |
| placenta of the new-born child somwhere in | | | | the rare hollowless piece of bamboo to |
| the ground at the backdoor of the house so | | | | ward-off black magick.It is advisable to |
| that the child will never be in want.It is | | | | state one's wishes during a falling star so |
| advisable to drink coconut water during the | | | | that it would come true.It is advisable to |
| latter stage of pregnancy so that the child | | | | swim in a lake during full moon as this would |
| will be born fair of face.It is advisable not | | | | cause one to become highly attractive.It is |
| to look at a coffin when it is being lowered | | | | advisable to sleep beyond midnight to avoid |
| into the ground as this could result in a | | | | psychic attacks.It is advisable to sleep on |
| serious illness.It is advisable not to look | | | | the floor to avoid psychic attacks.It is |
| at a coffin being closed and nailed as this | | | | advisable to keep sacred objects in the home |
| could cause bad luck for a year.It isa | | | | to protect one's family. |