Chupacabras are real.
Did you get that from a “Wise Latina Woman”? LOL
Was this written by Mr. T?
i grew up with the haircuts before first birthday, ojo, La Llorona, and itchy palms... i grew up hearing about these beliefs, but i did not grow up thinking they were true... my parents always relayed these beliefs as beliefs that the old ladies in their little town believed... my parents did not beieve them... i just mentined the itchy palms belief to my son yesterday... i said i have itchy palms, that means i will come into money... and a minute or so later my son said, “let me see your hand.” i gave him my hand, and he put two pennies into it... :)
The only one of these I ever heard of was a version of the drowning ghost. But only one river and it was a guy who jumped after losing his girlfriend to a flood. He would grab any girl who swam by thinking that it was her and he was trying to save her. (How they knew the ghost's motive I am not sure but that was the story)
My grandma on the other hand (not Hispanic) did tell me the one about the ears burning.
One of my friends from Puerto Rico is really serious about this one, but another friend from Mexico doesn't care.
My best friend in this life was a Latino. He died a few years back.
One time as he and his wife were visiting our house he saw one of the cats heading for the kitty box, and told us an old Latino sayings that if you watched a kitty in the kitty box you would get a stye in your eye.
I’ve had the misfortune of looking over at the occupied kitty box numerous occasions, but fortunately never got a stye in my eye, but then I’m NOT Latino.
"Don't believe that lie about America welcoming our kids"
"There are no freebies for undocumented Mexicans in America. Welfare is only for poor Americans"
"If you cross the border into Arizona and get caught by A guy named Sheriff Joe Arpaio he'll only feeds you stale sandwiches and makes men wear pink underwear before shipping you home"
A lot of this is straight from Spain.
Old peasant stuff.
Oho - the evil eye, pan-European or pan-Mediterranean also.
No haircut before 1 year? Shoot, I would’ve been happy if my babies HAD hair before they were 1! LOL
Didn’t finish the article yet, but I have to say I follow that purse on the floor thing. And I was actually told it by a black gal years ago. And she was very, how can I put this? Non-urban? I had no idea this was a Spanish thing. Hey, it works for me!
Hah! I heard the broom thing too, from a lovely Jewish lady that I worked for years ago.
But I’ll follow the thing with the itchy palms, I’ve heard of that too, of course, but never the advice to put your hand in you pocket.
I like it!
“Every River Had a Version of La Llorna”....that is,
every river except the Rio Grande?
And in my family babies never got their hair cut until after their 1st birthday or later, not so much out of any superstition but because the little ones often had such beautifully curly hair and the curls always seemed to be lost after that first hair cut. I have pictures of my big brother when he was nearly two years old and he had the most beautiful long blonde curly locks. But my dad, after getting upset that so many people commented what a cute little girl he was, took him to the barbershop, not for a hair cut but for a crew cut. LOL!
And speaking of babies and their 1st birthday, in my family the baby gets their own small 1st birthday cake put in front of them and baby is encouraged to eat the cake with their bare hands and sometimes plunge face first into it and nobody gets any cake until he or she does. That’s not however a superstition but it is good fun, if not so “clean” fun.
“Every River Had a Version of La Llorona”
Smelter pond in Superior, AZ. I was once convinced I heard the crying late on a Summer night.
The itchy palm and burning ears were in my non latino family beliefs. The hat on the bed bad luck one was in my fathers german family don’t list