supertision????

What is supertision? Superstition is a credulous belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge. The word is often used pejoratively to refer to folk beliefs deemed irrational. This leads to some superstitions being called "old wives' tales".

Let me share. I never had an experience with supertision tragedy but since I child my mother always remind me about Malay supertision. When I was little girl, my mother disallow me to play around during dusk and noon time, because if I play around at that time I will be hidden by ‘orang bunian’. While my late grandfather always remind me not to look at the mirror at night, his told me if I look at the mirror at night, my face would just look pretty from foresight but when in close view actually my face is very ugly. The other Malay supertision that I know from I was a little girl is if you pointing at a rainbow will make your finger drop off. Then my mother be angry when I singing during cooking at the kitchen because for her a girl who sings in the kitchen is fated to marry an old man. My mother told me, an oldest people believe that if cats are allowed to jump over a corpse it will sit up as a ghoul.

My mother told me, when my mother was pregnant her mother in law always reminds her Javanese taboos during pregnancy. She disallows my mother and my father to kill animals either accidentally or intentionally if they do that their child will take up the features of the animal.

My mother told me again; when I was born I was born right at dusk exactly during magrib prayer. Then her mother in law entrust her to tell me when I was adult. This is about Javanese supertision. In Javanese supertision when a child born exactly during dusk there a some taboos the parents should follows. After the baby born, the baby should place under the banana trees during dusk and leave the child. My mother told after parents leave then will come a tiger, then the tiger will lick the baby and it will go. My mother said because I was born as premature baby my mother did not do it, because my mother my mother worried if I was wounded and be eaten by the tiger. Then, my grandmother reminds if my mother and father fail to do it when I was baby, the tiger will hunt me until I was an adult. My mother disallows me sat alone outside the house during because if the tiger found me it will eat me. My father believe the tiger that my grandmother told is an imitation tiger. Until now, I still believe this Javanese supertision. I never sat alone during dusk because I fear these things really happen.

That’s all my story about supertision. I hope you enjoyed it. Thanks for reading! Wassalam.