13 surprising things you didn’t know were considered bad luck

When eating fish in some regions of China, it’s bad luck to turn over your dinner. Flipping over the fish is said to correspond to the motion of a boat capsizing. To avoid triggering such a disaster, many people in China reach the meat on the underside of the fish with chopsticks instead of rotating it.

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Bad news for lovers of watermelon wine: According to Argentinian custom, you’re flirting with disaster by putting these two things together. Not only should you never let these two substances touch one another, you shouldn’t even put them on the same table. This superstition has a few more and less stringent variations, though; some people avoid mixing watermelon with any type of alcohol, while others limit the restriction to just red wine and watermelon. This old wives’ tale warns that the two substances can be lethal together (or at the very least, cause a bad stomachache).

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In some cultures, including the Navajo tradition, pointing at a rainbow would incur the wrath of the gods. People considered rainbows to be celestial beings, or at the very least, sent by them. So you could ooh and aah at a rainbow all you liked, but if you pointed at one, you would disrespect the deity responsible for it.

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According to an old-fashioned Welsh tradition, parents should never cut their baby’s nails before he or she reaches six months old. The superstition warns that if the baby has its nails cut in its first six months of life, he or she will grow up to have sticky fingers and will become a thief.

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Source: RD.com