1. The north facing pillow You should never sleep with your head in North position or you will have a short life (this is the way a body is laid out at Buddist funerals). 2. Clipping nails at night Cutting your fingernails or toenails at night is bad luck. If you do so, i t is believed that you will not be with your parents at their deathbed. 3. Sticking your chopsticks upright in a bowl of rice Chopsticks should not be stuck upright into food, especially rice. Chopsticks are only stuck upright into rice in the bowl on the altar at a funeral. 4. Giving food from chopstick to chopstick Food should never be passed chopstick-to-chopstick as this is done in a ceremony where bone fragments from cremated remains are placed in an urn. This is called "hotokebashi." 5. Whistling at night Many Japanese superstitions come from old folk wisdom—If you whistle or play a flute at night, snakes will come to you.When they say snake, it means a thief. This practically...
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