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Superstitions of Indonesia
Avoid intercourse commencing from the seventh-month pregnency as this would cause the child to be unfaithful and disrespectful towards the parents.
Avoid slaughtering an animal when your wife is pregnent as this would cause the child to be born with a scar on its neck.
Avoid hunting or torturing an animal when your wife is pregnent as this would cause your child to resemble the animal.
Avoid disliking someone intensely while pregnent as this would cause your child to adopt the features of the disliked person.
Avoid mocking at a handicapped person during pregnency as this would cause your child to be born disabled.
Avoid keeping a spoon with the salt container during pregnency as this would cause difficulties during labor.
Avoid standing at the front door in the evenings during pregnancy as this would cause negative spirits to attack the fetus.
Avoid wearing earings commencing from the third month of pregnency as this would cause you to dream of being intimate with your husband whereas in reality it is an incubus impersonating him.
A man should avoid eating while lying down as this would cause his wife to have difficulties during labor.
It is unfortunate if a guest suddenly gives birth in your home as this causes bad luck. It is advisable to move house quickly.
It is advisable to open the doors and windows of your home so that your wife will give birth without complications.
It is advisable to bury the placenta of the new-born child somwhere in the ground at the backdoor of the house so that the child will never be in want.
It is advisable to drink coconut water during the latter stage of pregnancy so that the child will be born fair of face.
It is advisable not to look at a coffin when it is being lowered into the ground as this could result in a serious illness.
It is advisable not to look at a coffin being closed and nailed as this could cause bad luck for a year.
It isa advisable to wash one's face after escorting a coffin to its grave so as to avoid being followed by the ghost of the deceased.
If a lamp goes off in a room where the deceased is kept prior to burial, indicates that another member of the family will soon face death.
It isa advisable for a pregnant mother to look at beautiful pictures so that her baby would be born beautiful as well.
It is advisable for a pregnant mother not to be sad during pregnancy as this would cause the child to be born to become a whiner.
Avoid habitually biting the lower lip as this causes bad luck.
Avoid habitually biting the upper lip as this would cause lots of monetary debts in life.
Avoid pretending to cry as this would cause one's parents to be quickly deceased.
Avoid mistreating one's daughter as this would cause her to be mistreated later on by her husband.
Avoid singing or whistling while at a meal as this causes failures in one's endeavours.
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