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Hello to everyone! I must admit I didn’t know anything about the almonds. With regard to the bride, I don’t know how many women in my country wear something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue on the day of her wedding; but I’m sure that superstition is known here. I should ask my mom about it, I don’t know what she wore the day she got married with my dad. Regards!

Hi Samantha. I´ve never heard about this saying, however the custom is really similar in Brazil. Well... another superstition with saints. When a big storm is falling down we used to pray to Saint Clara. We take a jar full of water and pouring three times the water on it saying: Saint Clara, clear it! It suppouse the storm goes away, and the weather become clear. I´ve never tryed. However, friends who tryed it told me that is very efficient. I have a range of superstition to tell you. I listened to it near the fire having hot drinks and eating popcorn in our Brazilian festival held in June (it´s great!). But I guess this comment is too long, so it´s better I finish here. Regards.

I'm also not particularly superstitious, however I do like hearing about them and sometimes I discover myself in situations were I end up following some. For example, at New Year's Eve I may wear new underwear, the colour I might choose according to what I expect from the year. If it's love, I'd go for the pink one, if it's passion for the red one, but if what I'm looking forward to is peace there comes the green and so forth...And whatsmore just as a guarantee that money won't be scarce, you should get a brand new note of money, it must be the one with the highest value and then you attach it to your underwear, to the hip side. Well, in fact we Brazilians are very supertitious and have tons of them to keep us busy( cause some are really time consuming!). Well, everybody like Lemlem I have to say goodbye. My cause is not as noble as his though. I'll be away during the Carnival, which is really a big issue here, and won't take my laptop. I'm travelling to Garopaba, a beach quite close to Florianopolis.I'll have to travel really far cause I live in the centre of Brazil and have to go to the south. It's my first time in this place but people say it's a paradise. I just hope we get a lot of sunny days. I'm playing with the idea of having surfing lessons together with my son. When I'm back I'll be in touch and may share my time there if you are interested in knowing about it. PS. I wish you all a superb Carnival for the ones who celebrate it. Cheerio, See you soon,

Dear samantha,In my country there is a superstitious in wedding ceremony which is related to the theme of your blog, during the old wedding ceremony as the priest request for wedding’s approval from bride two women who are successful in their marriage, one grinding two piece of sugar means hope happiness for bride’s marriage and other swing a piece of cloth by needle means we are swinging tongue of bride’s mother-in-law to prevent from saying any annoyed words in her new life

Dear Samantha, as usual it's great pleasure to read your entry! Synonyms and wedding superstitious they are gradceful topic for discussion; but after a short thught I would say that I know only a few wedding beliefs, and what is worse, most of them was described by you. I can point only one morover you characterized: who, it mean bride or groom, will drive in first position on the road from home to church, this one will lead in the marriage. Furthermore the old wives' tale is that a bride must wear white garter - it brings luck. Unfortunately I don't know to many myths in pyblic life at all. I wish all of you good weekend! Chill out!

Hi Samatha, I think we have many superstitions in Italy,your examples about the marriage are very similar to the Italian ones,but I`m not sure if the thing that has to be wore is blue or red. I could just add something about the fact that guests shouldn`t wear totally black, white or purple clothes.The first colour is only for the bride, the second and the last one both represent the mourning here so they are considered very unlucky, and nobody likes bad omens in such a happy event.Anyway,actually many people wear black suits so this is not a very important superstition anymore, because custom changes, and people in grief don`t wear black clothes even for 1 day ,while in the past they had to wear them for 1 year. This is the explanation for the black but believe me if I say I don`t often see purple-dressed people in Italy and even though the stylists have been trying to convince us that this colour is very cool for ages ...not sure it will ever work.The purple is still used for all the decoration for mournings!!! There are millions of other examples about the Italians` attitude toward superstition, from the poor black cat to some rude things made by some people (especially men) if they are talking about death or other unlucky situations, but I think the most important and the clearest one is the fact we would never say "good luck"(jinx for sure)we could only say "hope you will be eaten by a wolf" and you have to reply "he must die"(something like "break your leg"). I know you are thinking -poor wolf- but what about the poor whale of another ruder Italian "good luck"? Don`t worry I won`t tell you about that one on the blog.... I think I could write about superstition forever,that was even the topic of my graduation thesis, but I`m very curious to read other students` comments too so I`ll wait for them. Regards ...and I recommend you 1)don`t cross the road if the poor black cat has done it before you 2) if you are walking don`t pass under a ladder(very ancient pithagorical superstition) 3) try to avoid breaking a mirrow( 17 years of jinx) 4) don`t have dinner with 12 people as 13 is the unluckiest number of people sitting at the same table (something religious, can you guess it?) 5)don`t spill salt and oil (in the past they were very expensive products)...and 6) the nicest one...on Tuesday and Thursday you should avoid getting married and start a journey or any other kind of new activity (one of the reason for that could be the fact that in Italy these days are connected to Aphrodite and Ares...and their affair in Greek mithology was famous as the cause of a very big mess among the Olimpian deities). I think I wrote enough or even too much, but I hope my comment won`t drive you crazy for all my mistakes.

While in Chinese New Year's eve, people are not allowed to go sleep until tomorrow morning.It says that if you are not awaked tonight, the monster in the dark will catch you and eat you.So everybody keep talking, watching TV,and evem gambling(just for fun) to make themself not to fall asleep. Ater this harsh night,everyone congratuiates each other to start at this brand new year. Funny,huh ~

Dear Samantha, I am not superstitious person, but there are lot of superstitions in our country,people believe those. One of our custom belief is If your nosetril itches, Someone who loves you think about you.In our country some families are very superstitious who do things according to these matter. For an eg.In order to go out from home to do some thing they look at the good time. I am glad we got a new student blogger. I think that Lemlem is very busy with his work. Good luck Lemlem. Samantha , I have learned a lot from your blogs. Thanks for your exercises which make us to do review in grammer and learn new vocabulary. I have problem in puntuation which is confusing for me. Kind regards

Dear Samantha! I hope you do not mind if I will not write about superstitious relating to marriage but about Valentine’s Day. I will try to use as many summary words and expressions from your blog as I can. I have read a survey in the newspaper. According to the local papers, 51.3% of the population of Slovakia does not celebrate Valentine’s Day. The reasons are, firstly: it is not our traditional holiday. Secondly, it seems to be only a big business. Valentine's Day is a relatively new holiday in Slovakia but it has grown appreciably in the past five, six years. We, my husband and I, did not used to celebrate it but this year we did. As the custom this day is to surprise our beloved with a small present I got an idea and I bought a little chocolate heart to him a few years ago. I did not think that I will cause trouble between us. When I gave him this little gift the things fell out badly. We both felt unpleasantly because he did not buy anything for me. I felt sorry to cause this situation. Then we had a good conversation and we both agreed that we do not need any unique day to love each other. So we forgave and forgot and made a fresh start. By the way, we have been married for twenty years. Just imagine, this year I got my favourite box of chocolate on 14th February. When I asked him why he said: “I was thinking of you the whole day”! And I gave him a big warm hug! Lastly, I would like to repeat one sentence that I wrote in a previous comment that one thing is certain, having a family and being loved are the most gorgeous feelings we can ever have. And all we need is love. Best wishes!

Dear Samantha! i am new reader of your blog i think I’ll learn a lot here i am not writing here regarding superstitious i am just trying to introduce my self to others i want to share my experiences to others and want to learn more regarding vocabulary ,grammar etc... I’ll be glad if anyone can help me out or amend my writing skills

Hi Samantha, in my country we have some superstitions about the marriages mostly people avoid to wear white dress in their marriages we prefer red dress on wedding day they have some superstitions regarding white color we useto use white color for the coffin but some literate people this its just superstitions and they ready to use any color for the wedding

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