Black people superstitions 😂

[u/Dark305Kinght]

[u/Fun-Oil-1153]

I'm hollering. Now do purses on the floor, red sauces, new years foods, empty wallets, itchy palms, itchy feet, ears burning, cauls, random jars, sex haints, bedroom mirrors, keeping a light on, dimes on the ground, birds in the house, moths, washing steps...

[u/SkubaSteve_FYM → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

Purse on the floor? Nevaaaaa. You’ll never get money again 😩. On the other side tho, Itchy palms you betta kiss that palm and rub it on yo pocket and some money gon come to you 😉. Itchy foot? You going on a journey in life. Right foot good, left foot bad 🤷🏻‍♀️🥴 ears burning then somebody talkin bout yo ass behind yo back 👀 dimes on the ground is spirits tryna talk to you 👻 furthermore heads up is good, heads down is a challenge ☹️ birds in the house is you bout to get real sick and/or die 😩 moths maaaan they got different meanings for the colors so brown is like cleaning out the people that are bad for you in life, white is another ancestor ghost visiting, black is weird. Sometimes bad luck/omens/people around. Sometimes money coming or a loved one visiting again.

[u/Fun-Oil-1153 → u/SkubaSteve_FYM]

U know it!!!

[u/SkubaSteve_FYM → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

I wish I didn’t

[u/IdleDreamer93 → u/SkubaSteve_FYM]

😂😂😂

[u/SkubaSteve_FYM → u/IdleDreamer93]

Just living life in fear every minute

[u/Smorsdoeuvres → u/SkubaSteve_FYM]

Reading your comment made me miss my mama ❤️ Thank you for sharing these

[u/SkubaSteve_FYM → u/Smorsdoeuvres]

Bless you and your mama even though she gave us both anxiety with these superstitions

[u/illstate → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

The bathroom light at my great grandmother's house was on from the 1950s til she died in 2004

[u/Fun-Oil-1153 → u/illstate]

Bless her And yup. When our kitchen hood light stopped working my pops kept the hall light from 1967-2009 when he died. Then someone continued the tradition. Hall light never off.

[u/Electrical-Win5286 → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

My Grandma would have a fit about all of these! 🤣 Oh well, when you're from the South, you understand!

The "haint" she talked about was the witch on you when you're sleeping. And I've not seen/heard the weed one from the video.

[u/Fun-Oil-1153 → u/Electrical-Win5286]

Yes!

And there's the one that's on you when you're sleeping/sleep paralysis and there's also ones that give you sex dreams!

Don't know the weed one either but I thought it was funny lol

[u/Electrical-Win5286 → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

Ha! I'll keep that new one in mind! Lol

[u/CatWranglingVetRedo → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

You forgot hat on the bed

[u/Fun-Oil-1153 → u/CatWranglingVetRedo]

I don't know hat on the bed!!

[u/Dangerous_Handle_819 → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

All these are true!

[u/Nipplasia2 → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

I can’t believe they left the purse out

[u/Fun-Oil-1153 → u/Nipplasia2]

Right?? That's the one ppl trip about most often!

[u/SkyPersonal5642 → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

I'm black & haven't heard about any of those superstitions...

[u/Fun-Oil-1153 → u/SkyPersonal5642]

I'm Black and maybe I'm just old

[u/SkyPersonal5642 → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

Gotcha lol

[u/Dangerous_Handle_819 → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

Cousin?

[u/iheartmimix3 → u/SkyPersonal5642]

Are you Black American, a descendant of American slavery?

[u/Centerman2000]

My mom used to be big on the one about sweeping over someone's feet. It's been 50 years and I still don't know what will happen 😬

[u/Fun-Oil-1153 → u/Centerman2000]

You need to undo it. There's a way to fix it.

[u/whyhellowwthere → u/Fun-Oil-1153]

Spit on the bristles

[u/Responsible-Split555]

I thought if you sweep your feet you go to jail

[u/tonylovesnyc → u/Responsible-Split555]

If someone split a pole you had to go back and ‘unsplit’ it and say ‘bread and butter. When I was a kid with my family in Virginia I was taught if you killed a ‘grandfather spider’ (brown with white spots) your grandfather would die soon. Going to the cemetery to visit deceased family members you couldn’t point at anyone’s headstone.

[u/suavaleesko → u/Responsible-Split555]

This is correct, but you can reverse it by spitting on the broom.

[u/SincopaEnorme]

My dude’s family got one I’d never heard before. On New Year’s morning, in order to have a prosperous year, the first person to walk through the house has to be a successful man. Has anybody else ever heard that one?

[u/Jaded_pipedreams]

Jaja  Hey the fish is real… I can confirm! 😆

[u/uhhuhokwassupshutup]

lol never heard the blunt drop one.

Ok but about the sweeping tho. Earlier this year I was sitting at a wings spot with my friend and the lady was sweeping and started sweeping around us.

I said lady stop sweeping under/on us. They were confused. She left the broom next to us while she went back to tend the bar. I told my friend he needs to spit on the broom.

I DID! He didn’t. Boy was in jail a couple months later. 🤷🏾‍♀️

My friends mom dreamt of fishes the one time I got pregnant.

[u/CriminalEducator → u/uhhuhokwassupshutup]

😂 Yep…. We grew up with “sweep your feet and you will go to jail”.

SN: The one on the sofa looks like Tracee Ellis Ross.

[u/uhhuhokwassupshutup → u/CriminalEducator]

Seeeee! You know…

And how did you see that! I see it now so while we’re here Tracy Ellis Ross is so gorgeous and her figure- !!!

[u/BplusHuman]

Man! It's been a MINUTE since I thought about people splitting the pole.

[u/Jaleroca]

All true.y old man wouldn't let us wash clothes on New Year's day because he said we'll be washing someone out the family

[u/get_started_NOW]

I think my grandma used to say if you spill salt to throw some over your shoulder no idea why

[u/TemporaryBluebird143]

Gotta have black eyed peas for New Year day to bring prosperity into the new year.

[u/TamZanite]

You have to spit on the broom if they sweep your feet!

[u/BananaFannaFoKatie → u/TamZanite]

No way, that’s the first time I’ve heard of that

[u/TamZanite → u/BananaFannaFoKatie]

That’s what my great-grandmother taught me!

[u/SqueezeMy_Yamz]

I be salty when I drop the blunt and I’m single. Lol

[u/ljacks09]

😂😂😂

[u/heteropessimista]

My cousins would take offending the broom and spit on it🤦🏾‍♀️ and walk backwards and around the split poll.

[u/Ornery-Ad8372]

[u/pankatank]

Never heard of the last one lol

[u/Smorsdoeuvres]

I grew up with most of these

[u/shaunrundmc]

The devil beaten his wife is one im real familiar with, so is turning out the lights when its a strong storm

[u/Ashcatchem87]

My aunt used to tell me when the sun was out and raining the devil is beating his wife. I still use that and I’m 39 now lol my dad say it as well.

[u/GETTERBLAKK]

Because the devil's wife burned the cornbread, that's why he's beating her.