[digital drifter]

Did you know

1. it's considered inauspicious to ask where you are going when someone is stepping out of the house?

2.  Seeing a single brahmin when you start from your house is also considered bad luck.

3.  Sewing on the doorstep is considered bad form.

4.  Sneezing when something good is happening, some one is stepping out, the person will have to sit for a few minutes before going out.  In general sneezing when a nice event is about to happen is in auspicous.

5.  The hooting of owls is considered bad luck

6.  When you visit someone for death and bereavement condolences, you're not supposed to say "see you" in that instance. As it indicates that you'd come again at the next death.

7.  if your healthy infant falls ill after you take him for a function like marriage,  betrothal etc., it's the "evil eye" on him

[dzibead]

  "Superstitions that can put the Irish to shame!"

Maybe not too surprising.  The law system of ancient Ireland, called the Brehon Laws, derives from Sanskrit, and some scholars think there's a connection between ancient Celtic culture and Vedic culture, going back to common Indo-European roots:
    http://dedanaan.com/...-druid-cousins/

    And check this out :         http://indianembassy...al_day_prog.htm


And those sneezing superstitions?  They're everywhere!  http://www.sacred-te...c/mhs/mhs45.htm

[digital drifter]

dzibead, on Jan 13 2008, 03:27 PM, said:

  "Superstitions that can put the Irish to shame!"

Maybe not too surprising.

wha...what!  That was an intriguing set of links. especially the ones about Irish druids and celtics.

[cyberhippie]

Buying metal on iron on Saturday is a no no, there are other restrictions for other days of the week anyone know any of them.

Yeah DD we´re the lost tribes of India here in Scotland and Ireland. Amazingly my dad would pass quite well for an Indian as would many Scots. Dark skin and jet black hair.

[digital drifter]

ashtami-navami, barani karthikai, prathamai are days where travel is avoided.
http://in.answers.ya...30093958AAf0IiZ

If you're traveling and come home on the 9th day, you should not sleep in your OWN house for that night.

That was from mom, I cannot anyway read the lunar calendar.

[dzibead]

cyberhippie, on Jan 13 2008, 02:36 AM, said:

Dark skin and jet black hair.

Like both of my grandmothers (of Scottish and Irish descent).

[Shiver me Timbers]

dzibead, on Jan 13 2008, 11:02 AM, said:

Like both of my grandmothers (of Scottish and Irish descent).

And my fathers family.....

[Hyderabadi]

If crows sit on your house and crow, expect visitors.

Never cut your hair and nails on a Tuesday, also never after dark.

[digital drifter]

ah, yes the cawing; persistent cawing and my mother goes "someone is coming home today".

Sometimes she is beside herself when she's not done the daily ladle of cooked rice for the crows by 10 in the morning and she hears the crows cawing.

I'm late she says and hurries out with a ladle of boiled rice as offerings.

Weird, my mom.

[Hyderabadi]

Cawing, yes!

There are days when you don't want visitors, and the damn things keep cawing away..    

You go to fetch the air gun, and Mom warns you that killing crows will bring you x years of bad luck.

[Hippie at Heart]

dzibead, on Jan 13 2008, 03:27 PM, said:

  "Superstitions that can put the Irish to shame!"

Maybe not too surprising.  The law system of ancient Ireland, called the Brehon Laws, derives from Sanskrit, and some scholars think there's a connection between ancient Celtic culture and Vedic culture, going back to common Indo-European roots:

There was a very interesting book I read many years ago on similar lines suggested by Dzibead.
“Celts & Aryans” (Survival of Indo-European Speech and Society) by Prof Myles Dillon, Director, Institute of Advance Studies and School of Celtic Studies, Dublin (Eire) and former President of Royal Irish Academy.