Are you superstitious about Friday the 13th?
I'm not. But when I was growing up in the Philippines, my family was superstitious about some other things.
For example:
Don't sweep uncooked rice or you will sweep good fortune out the door. (As a child, if I spilled uncooked rice, I had to pick up every grain.)
If you bite your tongue, someone is thinking of you. Name a letter and a person's name starting with that letter; they are thinking of you. (This is a fun game I do with my kids now.)
Jump at midnight on New Year's Eve and you will grow taller. (Didn't work too well for me.)
Serve round fruits and long food (like noodles) on New Year's Eve to ensure prosperity for the coming year.
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Are YOU superstitious?
My name is Jewel. Welcome to my blog!
As a young girl growing up in the Philippines, I always hoped for storms so ferocious that school would have to be cancelled. And when it was cancelled, my siblings and I got to stay home. Usually there was no electricity, which we called "black out".
Who cared about the storm outside when we had wax from the candle, to mold into a human shape and stick pins in...just kidding, we weren't really into voodoo. Anyway, along with the wax sculpting, we exchanged suspenseful stories, of ghosts and aswang and the mananaggal.
This blog is dedicated to that spine-tingling story, of things imagined or real. Come on in, grab a blob of wax and join me around the table.
Who cared about the storm outside when we had wax from the candle, to mold into a human shape and stick pins in...just kidding, we weren't really into voodoo. Anyway, along with the wax sculpting, we exchanged suspenseful stories, of ghosts and aswang and the mananaggal.
This blog is dedicated to that spine-tingling story, of things imagined or real. Come on in, grab a blob of wax and join me around the table.
Friday, February 13, 2009
Friday the 13th
Posted by Jewel Allen at 6:23 AM 3 comments
Labels: my childhood, Philippines
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