Some aunties would tell us not to eat bananas which are joined together. We girls must choose bananas which are whole, as one. Otherwise in the future we would give birth to deformed babies, like Siamese twins.
We were also told tales of unusual foods which we must never eat like a duck with a strange web feet, or a chicken egg with two egg yolks.
Recently a friend Aminah Wong gave me a photo of this strange pineapple...We had a good laugh. Shall we tell our young unmarried friends they must not eat this pineapple? They may have kids with 6 legs!! Or may be SIX toes?
Now this brings me back to my English Literature book called " The Chrysalids". Lots of interesting tales there too.
Of course my aunts never read the book, but they were similar to those characters in the book, but the punishment was never dealt to us or to them.
What kinds of superstitions did you grow up with?
2 comments:
As a kid we were told nt to say anything when a coffin passed by, as the dead will be listening!
That's a caring way our elders want to protect us from anything bad...Good advice.
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