Thread: Local Superstitions

Home in Norway we have a few, the first one that springs to mind is that if you whistle it will rain, at least according to my grandfather.
Earlier people would put out porridge to our equivalent of santa so that he would be happy and not torment the animals and cause all kinds of trouble on the farm.

We have one knife related too: it was this really good blacksmith where I come from that they say hardened his blades in water from a lake with a drowned man and he could only do it in the moonshine of a full moon. Might be something to try for the custom makers

Here we have a superstition that says the only way to kill a Drop Bear is to stab it in the heart with a dead dingo's shin bone dipped in eucalyptus oil.

Clearly superstitious mumbo jumbo. I killed a Drop Bear with nothing more than my bare hands and a photograph of Elle McPherson.

James.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Here we have a superstition that says the only way to kill a Drop Bear is to stab it in the heart with a dead dingo's shin bone dipped in eucalyptus oil.

Clearly superstitious mumbo jumbo. I killed a Drop Bear with nothing more than my bare hands and a photograph of Elle McPherson.

James.

Can you prove, sir, that there is any effective difference between your bare hands and a dead dingo's shinbone?

I THOUGHT NOT!!!!

And as for the Elle Mcpherson pic/Euralyptus oil connection, well, I think we ALL know about that one! *Nudge nudge, wink wink*


Japan, of course, has lots of odd superstitions (all superstitions are odd...not just Japanese ones.). For example, if you whistle after dark, you'll call up either a) a burglar or B) a venomous snake.

Also, if you cut your nails after dark, you won't be able to be there when your parents die. (I am NOT making that up. How telling is that?)

In Solingen they say:
Never give a knife for a present - it cuts the friendship.

As far as I'm concerned it worked twice.
Both knives were so not my thing.

Originally Posted by Jimbo

Here we have a superstition that says the only way to kill a Drop Bear is to stab it in the heart with a dead dingo's shin bone dipped in eucalyptus oil.

Clearly superstitious mumbo jumbo. I killed a Drop Bear with nothing more than my bare hands and a photograph of Elle McPherson.

James.

Pardon my Americaness. What is a Drop Bear?

Originally Posted by singlewedge

Pardon my Americaness. What is a Drop Bear?

Probably one of those cute little Koalas. 'Cause it's really easy to drop 'em.

Originally Posted by singlewedge

Pardon my Americaness. What is a Drop Bear?

Consider yourself lucky that you do not know what a drop bear is. Not many foreigners have seen one and lived to tell of it.

They are a mutated form of arboreal marsupial, distantly related to, and in fact share many phenotypical traits in common with, the Koala. No one knows exactly when the mutation occurred, but anecdotal evidence suggests it was sometime after Australia and the US started testing nuclear technologies in the Australian outback.

What we do know is that these furry evil-incarnates stalk their victims (usually unsuspecting drunk tourists and backpackers) from high above in the eucalypts, leaping from tree to tree in deadly silence as they track their prey. Then, when the moment is right, they drop from the tree onto the unfortunate person and rip them to shreds.

There have only ever been two photos taken of the Drop Bear. Both almost cost me my right arm. The first shows the impressive, Predator-like camouflaging abilities of the Drop Bear. The second speaks for itself. Prepare yourself.....





James.

Cute as hell so to say.

like you couldn't use the search function instead of inviting him to talk about it AGAIN?

drop bear

Heres a couple of my mothers favorites. If a bird flys inside of your house, someone is going to die. The second one is that people die in threes, meaning that if yoyu hear of one death, you will shortly hear of two more.