Japanese Superstitions
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If you hear thunder hide your belly button, otherwise the god of thunder will eat it. |
When you buy new shoes, make sure to only wear them in the morning. |
Don’t sleep with your head pointing North, this is the way the deceased are laid to rest at a funeral.
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You'll stop growing if you walk around with a basket on your head. |
If you wish on a shooting star three times, your wish will come true. |
If you don’t finish your rice during every meal, you will go blind. |
 If you wear new shoes on tatami (traditional Japanese flooring) and go outside, your career will fail. |
If you keep a piece of shed snake-skin in your wallet, you will be rich. |
If you leave a ceiling or floor fan on all night, you will die. |
 When you swim during the Obon season (August), the ghosts of the dead, returning home for Obon, will take you away with them. |
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