There are many superstitious beliefs in the Philippines. Filipinos subscribe to their own set of superstitious or ”PAMAHIIN” inherited from ancestors. Some of these may have been in fluenced by other countries, but Filipinos also bring more flavour to the belief that makes more interesting or sounds ridiculos. There are thousands of superstitious beliefs out there, and these are only some popular ones:
1• Fitting your wedding dress prior to your wedding day will cost you your life. In the Philippines, a bride is strictly prohibited to fit her wedding gown prior to the actual day itself. Yes, this is a common belief also in many other countries, but in the Philippines, they believe that doing the said fitting will cost the bride’s life. This may be in the form of an accident, or any other unfortunate event that will take place before the wedding day. While we’re not entirely sure about the roots of this superstitious belief, it is believed to have been brought by the Spaniards during the colonization period. To this day, a lot of future brides still follow this belief. After all, it’s better to be safe than sorry!
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2• When someone sees you and you appear to be headless, it means you’re about to die. Another popular superstition in the Philippines is when someone says that he/she cannot see your head/face, it means that you are going to die. Soon. Same belief applies with photographs in which your face or head appears to be missing (darkened/blurred/shaded for example). However, you can still change the course of your “fate” by taking off the clothes you’re currently wearing and burying them on the ground as soon as possible. Like the wedding dress superstition, the source of this belief still has to be found, but it grew to immense popularity especially in the 1980s and early 1990s when it became the subjects of Pinoy movies with plots revolving around grisly murders that were based on real-life crime stories.
3• When a woman sings while cooking, she will end up a spinster. Yes, this sounds funny and highly improbable, but this superstitious belief actually had a pretty strong hold on women, especially during the Spanish era. Mothers usually remind their grownup daughters not to sing while cooking meals, otherwise they won’t be able to marry.
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4• Saying “tao, tao po” while knocking at someone’s door is more than just asking if there’s someone in the house. It’s a common custom for Filipinos to say “tao po” when knocking at someone else’s door. While it literally means asking if someone’s inside the house, elders also believe that this is one way of introducing yourself as human and not some supernatural creature such as dwarves, fairies, or encantos who can’t do humanspeak.
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5• When three people pose for a picture, the one at the center will be the first to die. Yup, one more reason to avoid being a third wheel, eh?
6• Sweeping the floor at night will bring you bad luck. Why? Because it means sweeping away wealth in the house, as well as, causing the centipedes crawling on the ceiling to fall down and swarm on you.
7• Oro, Plata, Mata. Popular among the Tagalogs of Southern Luzon, this superstitious belief involves the stair-steps in the house. When constructing cement or wooden steps in the house, you must count them, bottom to top, in a series of threes reciting the words ‘Oro, Plata, Mata’ – meaning gold, silver and death. If the top rung coincides with oro or plata, it means good fortune. However, if the top rung of the stairs coincides with mata, a series of bad luck shall befall the residents of the house.
8• Crossing paths with a black cat is a bad omen. And the way to shirk catastrophe is to immediately go back to the house and postpone your plan or errand for the day.
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9• Bringing home food served at a wake or a funeral will bring bad luck. There are superstitions aplenty involving the dead – the dearly departed whose souls/spirits are said to still be roaming around for 40 days after death. Therefore, hoarding food served at a wake and bringing them home is tantamount to inviting bad luck into your own home.
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10 • If you’re coming from a wake, take a detour if you must, just DON’T go home immediately. If you do, the dead will follow you home and it won’t be a pretty sight.
I remember when I was young my Grandparents told me about this beliefs. Well I don’t believe coz me myself have tried some of this but nothing happens.
And there’s no scientific explanation for this coz it’s just a belief.
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