TOP 10 WEIRDEST Japanese Superstitions!

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superstitions that would shock you and also there might be a little good understanding of it like it's it might be easier to understand someone and some will be just totally bizarre okay no it's maybe it'll help you to know these when you visit Japan point number who know if this one is about hiccups and in Japan it's said that if you hiccup more than a hundred times you die just like that yep like like it's just somebody said I thought you would say if you hiccup a hundred times you're gonna die I mean it's the surgeon - you said it radium I don't know if it's unhealthy but I can see it being I could see see that maybe there's a problem sir like what you if you're at 99 or people are like in Middle School in high school if someone has been hiccuping for more than 20 times we all surround them and start counting really howling out as hiccups like 25 26 so we need to is there a certain part of you that's like a little experience like yeah see what happens let's see if it really happens there what's the highest you convict - I think 1801 callback these are kind of bad friends this one's not too bizarre for me I guess it's it's it's like it's very serene and scary but I can see where it could have originated from point number two floor for is missing for her for is missing in bigger buildings in Japan if you go around and actually see a lot of the time the fourth floor is missing for in Japanese means sheet which translates to death so it's like unlucky number 13 it's equivalent yeah okay I think I knew that one I just haven't thought about it recently is it like bringing bad luck on the building if you have a fourth floors it I think so you know companies also wouldn't want to have their offices on the fourth floor because yeah might mean that they're gonna crash like they're not gonna is rental on the fourth floor the cheapest you know if like it affects the cost of rental someone let us know in the comments in some real estate on the fourth floor cheaper than the third and fifth floor point number three you put salt next to restaurants to ward off evil I knew this one first superstition I learned about Japan yeah when I was like 19 because I took a Japanese tea making class and it was explained to us that there's always solved by like sushi restaurants and stuff It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia there was like this salting thing like you salt people ah yeah wait did you watch It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia I mean I hadn't watched it but well that's exactly what you do if you accidentally throw a baseball into old person's home and break their window and you go in and you're like super unapologetic they'll throw solid really yeah especially like people who believe Oh over your shoulder thing yeah so I really never saw its to fade off evil like well salt the salt the water offer of evil the point number for a broken comb or a sandal means bad luck I think this is a really cool really like coming outside of Japan I thought I always thought this was common yeah I've never heard that superstition there's a broken mirror is yeah it's bad luck I think that's like the transition that it took and and in Japan if you're wearing flip-flops and you know the middle part yeah that means like really but that happened so much I know it happened so often and there's like so many cheap and in Tokyo like when you in the summer people are always stepping on your shoes exactly maybe it's like a superstition that spread as a marketing scheme but a shoe company that didn't want you to wear flip-flops anymore I don't what about a broken cone I guess you have I guess like most Japanese people have straight hair so their clothes don't break exactly the guy I have straight hair so I reckon my I've had my fair share of pulling on this hair but like a calm meaning like a smaller comb like those straight one it's not like a brush exactly and those if one of them chips off like one of the bars chips off that means it's bad luck no that's the particular example really yeah all right all right point number five don't cut your nails at night and what this is a very serious one that like everybody in Japan knows but if you cut your nails at night it is said that you will not see your parents death you won't be able to like say goodbye to your hair it's kind of like that exactly yeah that's really said I honestly but when do you cut your nails then does everyone like cut him before work I don't know maybe in like a lunchtime or something they really a lot of people who would not cut their nails and because of this reason like this is very important I have only cut my nails at night to me like like always in the evening it's very serious caution happiness yeah but like it's so inconvenient to clip your nails outside of the evening because in the morning I'm always in a rush to get to work I don't want to do it in front of people in like at lunch time I heard sodium maybe only applies to Japanese people it's just the curse this to me is like a game-changer like it changes the schedule of my life it's exactly yeah I also like that because when you clip your nails I don't file them I just like wash my hair and they like kind of get filed against my scalp or something and then I go to sleep and by the morning they're not sharp anymore point number six you should not whistle at night the consequences of this is like really really weird if you whistle at night a snake will come it that's the only superstition yeah a snake welcome the snake will come to your house well I guess I could avoid doing that I mean the only time I really whistle is like when I'm listening to music or like I drink and I'm at a bar and I like a song and I start whistling so I guess I have to cut out drunk whistling because snakes can this be used to a hunter's advantage I am stuck in a forest for my food I think cilinder please try it out and let us know if there's no what happening to you and you're welcome yeah point number seven you drink vinegar to become more flexible what is that okay really common I went to the gym this morning and Japanese people have amazing flexibility if it's from drinking vinegar I'm about to start doing that yeah actually like I don't see that much places in America or like when I went to Europe I didn't see a lot of places don't use vinegar there was even vinegar drinks in Japan yeah so I mean it may be interesting so what is it like drink milk to grow tall drink vinegar to be flexible exactly yeah that's really weird I mean that's cool though that like there's a superstition to encourage flexibility because I think it's a topic that's way too under talked about in the States like no one I feel like very few people in the states have the flexibility of the average Japanese person the worst thing about going to the gym in Japan isn't I feel terrible when I see like 82 year old grandma picking up her leg and just stretching she drinks that three times a day a lot of my friends that was doing like a lot of gymnastic stuff where sports would be drinking like vinegar I mean I don't know about the health aspect of this but this is just like a huge superstition in Japan maybe vinegar is the answer to lactic acid yeah maybe maybe there's a medical explanation to this let us know in the comments right if there is point number eight hey Teddy BOSU this is about this thing that Japanese people hang on their windowsill when you don't want the next day - ray basically you hang this on your windowsill to stop rain before like a huge event where you want it to be sunny like a sports day perhaps yeah what does it look like it's like it's like oh I've seen that but I've never known what that was for yeah when I was in middle school like with my Japanese friends we would make this be like a day before we go to huge amusement park where's Neil and yeah I give you had a school field trip did you make it with the teacher or did you just oh yeah as a class we would make it as well really everyone went to home and hung it up in their windows yeah it's very interesting I don't know what Ted okay - hmm bull zoom means the urge you have a shaved head Ted okay - maybe just then how it looks hmm yeah look steady Ted Oh looks like it's very tender settle point number nine if your hand is cold then your heart is warm and if your hand is warm then your heart is cold wait so like your heart your your physical heart or your like your you have a warm heart like your old person yeah a good person okay so if you had bet if you have a bad circulation you're a good person yep okay but I can see how that one kind of evolved I don't know it's like a nice thing to say you know I bet it was just like someone on a date was like oh your hands are cold and must because you're such a nice person and then like this sentiment just kind of kept going or something it's cute I'm a warm kind of a person so that are you a nice person I don't know I read all of the wars my hands are really what my hand my own hands are really warm I fear soon you get cold what does that mean it means your brain is much if you have cold feet you have a good brain because a lot of blood goes to your brain yeah how about yeah I think that's the opposite hand heart one that's made up yeah we made that one up that one's made up and the final last point number ten if you take out a sesame seed from your belly button you will get a stomach ache yes how did you feel how did what how did the system you see you get there in the first place it's just there and everybody's belly button there's a sesame seed what like a sesame seed in you exceed it everybody the belly button that's what you're told that there's a black seed in everybody's belly button it's not like you're eating an SSN a seed falls into your belly button your skin even weirder you were born with a sesame seed in your belly button and I feel like the last year you believed it for plus 20 years of your life when I was talking to my friend and it's like my friends like just like just as a joke could pull my stomach and I was like no don't don't do that what if my being falls out a Japanese friend or a foreign friend a foreign person and then you had to explain it to them yeah and I took about 30 minutes explaining he's like has no idea what what I'm talking about please check your belly button you have a seed there this is like the most confusing thing because I don't even know and this one if it's not even true I still kind of believe it I have never had a system you see in fact it's so many wasn't happen you you be careful in the shower when you're a kid is it do you think it's like funny for parents maybe like to see how long parents can get you to believe it that's like like Santa Claus in this in the state no but it's I would I mean without any positive outcomes for the children I'm already pretty old so I go back to my house after my friend makes fun of me for about two hours after I tell him this story and I tell my mom like what what's the problem with you why would you lie to me like that since I was a kid and she's like I'm the line that's true look at your bellybutton hey please please tell me this is true if there are any doctors watching this please please explain to listen to me see it in our belly if you want to read more about this topic or other Japan related topics check out our website which is linked in the description our website on this video are hosted by Squarespace which is an all-in-one stop for building websites it's easy to use you don't need to know how to program its you just get on it and start writing and it's like makes itself it's really easy customizable and you can personalize it to whatever you need it to be to get 10% off your first Squarespace purchase use the link in the description which is squarespace.com backslash Pais and as always leave a like comment subscribe to our video and watch the next one as well [Music]

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Length: 15min 42sec (942 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 25 2018