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Me superstitious....Naw...but I tella my mom was VERY superstitious a lot of southern folks ARE... yanno that roots stuff.lol, there were and still are MANY blacks in the south truly believe that someone can put roots or a spell on someone...especially the older folks....could be the reason I currently live near the north

The north has their share of problems too.  I remember we're not able to take a bath for a whole week some months in the summer because my mom was burning a prayer candle in the bathtub and would lose her ****  if it accidentally went out.  What was she praying for? Money.  She finally stopped this practice when her brother, the family pimp, pointed out to her that she "blew $2.50 on that dayum candle, as he put it, and didn't even know how to manage the money that she already had..." 

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You got a name?  I ain't buying it.

I think everyone is superstitious to a degree, whether we believe it or not. We just CHOOSE to label it as something else. Everyone has funny rituals that they do...are THOSE not superstitious? I may not lend myself to the traditional superstitions...ya know, black cats are bad luck, opening an umbrella in the house or whatever, but I do have funny little ritualistic behaviors that make me feel better. Example: I like to take my dad's dog tags with me when I travel. Dumb to most folks but it makes me feel safe.

I think everyone is superstitious to a degree, whether we believe it or not. We just CHOOSE to label it as something else.
 
Perhaps.  That happens all the time for a lot of things that we experience in our "hoods." 

Everyone has funny rituals that they do...are THOSE not superstitious? I may not lend myself to the traditional superstitions...ya know, black cats are bad luck,
 
Black cats are bad luck,
         Bad guys wear black,
         Must've been a white guy that started all that...
                                       - The Gas Face by 3rd Bass

Sorry.  I had a Rap Attack, but I'm better now.

opening an umbrella in the house or whatever, but I do have funny little ritualistic behaviors that make me feel better. Example: I like to take my dad's dog tags with me when I travel. Dumb to most folks but it makes me feel safe.

That's fine to me because it's a small thing that just makes you feel safe during travel, but to believe that opening an umbrella up in the house will somehow dictate what your life is going to be like (negatively) for a while is about as silly as believing what's actually written on the piece of paper inside of a fortune cookie.    Mad silly, Yo!  

Whats up Aye!

No I am not supersitious but i will do certain things out of pure habit...because it was the way I was raised. For instance, I don't like splitting poles. I know if I split the pole nothing will happen but I just don't like the way it makes me feel when I do it....sort of like feels as though my grandma is looking down on me...saying....I told her not to split them gawddayum poles! I know right... she could cuss like a sailor but I still believe she's looking down...LOL! I know folks in heaven are wearing ear plugs though! LMAO!

  I can dig it.

Most of our supestitions are handed down from our older folks.  That's why I've started a few of my own based on ones that older people tried to sell me on:

boring old superstion:
Don't go in the swimming pool.  You can't drink all of tha****er.

my new one:
Black children need to learn how to swim.  They  all can't get NFL, NBA, and WNBA contracts after high school.  Some of them need to go to college on a different kind of scholarship.

One thing Rhonda will never do is sit in a  restaurant with my back to the door.

Superstitious No...Watching my back YES, because the minute Junior come in there shooting I will be the first to drop and roll to the floor.

What if it's dark and Rhonda doesn't see Junior coming into the greasy spoon?

But what if Junior's aim is bad and hits Rhonda on accident?

Why are we talking about Rhonda in the third person?

I don't think we call it being superstitious.  It's rituals or customs that we are comfortable with.  I live in the south so we got a lot of stuff depending where you live and who raised you.
New Years meals... I know folks who always have greens, black eyed peas and cornbread.  You won't have a prosperous year if you don't have it. 
The first person to cross your threshold in the new year should be a man.  If a woman is the first caller you will have bad luck.
Jumping the broom at weddings.  We aren't slaves anymore so why do we have to do that?  If you 're shacking maybe that would be an option.  Perfect start to a common law marriage.

I've heard some ridiculous ones over the years..  Women are not supposed to bathe during that time of the month.  I would think that would be the perfect time for washing your behind. 
All these folks are Christians and do not practice voodoo.

Root doctors & spirtual advisors are making good money in the south getting rid of hexes, bad karma or juju & what have you.