Superstitious lies I was told as a kid to stop my bad habit

Many of us were told stories that were not true when we were kids but we believe those superstitious stories and even now, I still find it weird that I still believe some of them and have outgrown some of the lies.

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My brother was very good at folklore stories, the way he narrated them would make you quiet and listen attentively, sometimes I would even beg him to tell me a story even when he was not in the mood to do so. I almost believed the tortoise was the wisest of all animals based on the stories he told me.

Aside from the good stories, there are also the superstitious lies my mother used to tell me which I later figured out was to stop my bad habit but I did not know and believed her and till now I still believe some, and one of those is

Using my hand to collect drops of water running from the roof during rain

She told me doing this was very risky and if thunder should strike when my hand was in the rain, I might be struck by the lightening, this scared me so much that even though I wanted to play with the raindrops, the fear of the lightning and thunder striking me would take away the courage to do so and till today I am still scared to put my hand to collect the drops when raining.

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Eating from the Pot

There is this joy I derived from eating directly from the pot of food rather than serving the food in a dish but again she had to ruin this for me with another lie which I fell for, I was told eating from the pot would make my buttock as black as the pot, black buttock? oh no! No one warned me again before I started serving my food in the dish before eating and that was how I was cured of that bad habit back then even though I have resumed it again in adulthood after figuring it was a lie

A boy should not taste food when on fire

Some of us can testify to the joy of tasting food before it is done, and most time, we would have eaten to our fill even before the food was ready, my mother had to come up with another superstitious lie that if a boy tastes food when cooking, his pimpim would become smaller, ah no o, smaller ke, I do not want to harm my pim pim so I had to stop tasting food on fire too.

As if that was not enough, she came up with another story that our dead relatives always come home on Friday to check on us and drink water so we must always make sure we have drinking water at home or else they would scatter the whole house, I believed this too! meanwhile, she mentioned this because as boys we were lazy and didn't like fetching water in the house.

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