Superstitions and Old Wives’Tales have been around since time immemorial. Superstitions are seen as beliefs with no logical or sound foundation and Old Wives’Tales, once based in truth, are now considered merely unproven, time-honored beliefs. Read on to find out if some of your beliefs might actually fall under the categories of Superstitions or Old Wives’ Tales. Following a description of each is a list of some of the more popular Superstitions and Old Wives’ Tales.

What Are Superstitions?

Some of the superstitions we hold are just for fun (e.g. an itchy palm means you’ll have luck or you have money coming your way) while others can be so deep-seated that they affect the way a person lives his or her life. For example, the superstition that if a person doesn’t get out of the bed on the same side he or she got in on, they will suffer bad luck, could lead to a compulsive need to always get into and out of bed on the same side. Why tempt fate?

Superstition can be defined as a belief in  supernatural or mystical causes for certain events or occurrences. In other words, certain things happen (good luck or bad luck) because of some uncanny, unexplainable, magical intervention, events or occurrences that could be described as nothing short of miraculous because there was no other way of explaining them. During the “Age of Enlightenment in the 1700s, Christian doctrine scorned belief in miracles, reducing them to superstitions and equating belief in miracles with belief in magic, which was considered sinful. In fact the Catechism of the Catholic Church deems superstition to sinful because it demonstrates a lack of faith in Divine Providence, which breaks the First Commandment.

While some superstitions may be suggest or represent religious practices (Voodoo for instance), most apply to views and customs about good or bad luck, the prophesying on the prospects of things that will happen based on previous events that are totally unconnected, and to spiritual beings.

A List of Superstitions

Bad Luck

·         Friday, the 13th, an unlucky day

·         The number 13

·         Breaking a mirror, which brings bad luck for 7 years

·         Black cats crossing one’s path

·         Walking under a ladder

·         Opening an umbrella inside a house or building

·         Singing at the table

·         Sleeping on a table

·         A bird coming in the window

·         Refusing to kiss under the Mistletoe

·         Goldfish in the house

·         Chasing someone with a broom

·         Dropping a dishcloth

·         Getting out of bed on a different side than you got in on

·         Rocking an empty rocking chair

·         killing an albatross brings bad luck to a ship as well as its crew and passengers

·         Wearing an opal when it’s not your birthstone

·         Giving someone a  purse or wallet without placing some money in it

·         It is bad luck to leave a house through a different door than one you entered through

Reversing Bad Luck

·         Turn 7 times in a clockwise circle

·         Crossing your fingers

·         Standing in a circle protects you from harm

·         Knocking twice on wood

Protection

·         Garlic protects from vampires

·         Wedding veils protect brides

Good Luck

·         An itchy palm

·         finding a horseshoe

·         Tossing salt over your shoulder

·         Saying “God Bless You” after a sneeze

·         Rabbit’s foot

·         Finding a 4-leaf clover

·         Fate is written in the stars

·         Wearing clothes inside out

·         Wearing your birthstone

·         Beginners always have good luck

·         A cricket in the house

·         Lock of hair from baby’s first hair cut

·         Gold fish in a pond

·         Wearing new clothes on Easter

·         Finding a penny and picking it up

Money and Wishes

·         There’s a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow

·         Blowing out the birthday candles in one breath means you’ll get your wish

·         When breaking a wishbone, the person with the larger piece gets his or her wish

·         Itchy palms mean money

The Prospect of Things to Come Based on Unconnected Events

·         An apple a day keeps the doctor away

·         If you step on a crack, you’ll break your mother’s back

·         Eating fish will make you smart

·         Toads cause warts

·         When the soles of your feet itch, you’ll be taking a trip

·         If a dog howls, a death will occur

·         A sailor who wears a gold earring can’t drown

·         Animals can talk at midnight on Christmas Eve

·         Dropping a fork means a woman will visit, dropping a knife means a man will visit, and dropping a spoon means a child will visit

·         Shivering means someone is casting a shadow on your grave

·         A bride wearing something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue during the wedding ceremony guarantees a happy marriage.

·         Washing a car guarantees it will rain

·         Planning a picnic or other outdoors outings requiring a sunny day will also guarantee rain.

·         Warm hands mean a cold heart, whereas cold hands mean a warm heart

What Are Old Wives Tales?

In the olden days, way before modern technology and modern medicine evolved into what it is today, women were the keepers of medical wisdom which was passed on from generation to generation. Women – especially the Old Wives who were the town’s mothers, grandmothers, midwives and healers – were responsible for delivering babies, healing sick family members and neighbors, were considered experts in nutrition, experts in children, folk medicine, herbs and even death.

Many of the Old Wives’ Tales developed from the wealth of their experience. Some of the Old Wives’ Tales, though were based in superstition, such as the Tale that eating bread crusts would make your  hair curly. Many Old Wives’Tales developed from folk cures for every day ailments (toothaches, colds), or were aimed at teaching about things like deathand natural life changes (explaining pregnancy to kids, beginning of menstruation, or menopause), or to teach children about which behaviors to avoid by associating those behaviors with dire consequences (if you touch a toad you’ll get warts).

Whole books could be written about the Old Wives’ Tales concerning pregnancy (e.g. if you carry the baby high it’s a girl, but if you carry it low it’s a boy). There are way too many pregnancy related Old Wives’ Tales to go into here, but some of the other aspects of life still offer up some really intriguing examples. When reading through this list, you may discover that many of these Old Wives’ Tales sound suspiciously like superstitions.

A List of Old Wives Tales

·         Eating bread crusts will make your hair curly

·         Don’t swallow gum  because it takes seven years to digest

·         Plucking one gray hair means two more will grow back in its place

·         Touching toads gives you warts

·         Don’t swim for an hour after eating, or you’ll get stomach cramps

·         Eating carrots improves eyesight

·         Eating chocolate cause acne

·         Carrying an acorn will bring good luck and long life.

·         Placing acorns on the windowsill will keep lightning out of the house.

·         Ring bells provide protection from demons because the noise scares them.

·         If the first calf born during the winter is white, then the winter will be particular severe.

·         Itchy or ringing right ear means someone is saying something nice about you, while if it occurs in the left ear, someone is saying something bad.

·         Cutting fingernails on Friday or Sunday is bad luck.

·         Save, burn or bury fingernails clippings to prevent bad luck.

·         Anyone dying on Good Friday will go straight to Heaven.

·         Hanging a horseshoe above a door  brings good luck to whomever lives there.

·         Don’t hang a horseshoe upside down, or all the luck will run out.

·         If your nose itches it means (1) a fool is going to kiss you, (2) you will get a visitor – the right nostril means a female visitor and the left nostril means a male visitor.

·         Jogging is bad for you because it jumbles up your insides.

·         Inserting knitting needs into a ball of yarn brings bad luck to the person who uses the item made from that yarn.

·         Catching a falling leaf on the first day of autumn guarantees you won’t get sick all winter.

·         When boiling milk, don’t let it run over the side of the pan or it’ll bring bad luck.

·         Wishes made over burning onions will come true.

·         Using the same pencil for studying and taking tests will ensure good grades, because the pencil remembers the answers.

·         Dropping a pair of scissors means your lover is seeing another behind your back.

·         Dropping an umbrella on the floor of a house means that someone in that house will soon die.

·         Knocking on wood 3 times keeps evil spirits from stealing your good luck.

·         The number of times that the lines on your palms form an “X” indicates the number of children you will have.

·         The number of ribbons a bride breaks when opening her wedding gifts indicates the number of children she will have.

·         Covering your mouth when yawning, prevents the soul from leaving your body.

·         Walking around in bare feet will give you worms.

·         Wearing shoes will help a baby learn to walk faster.

·         If a woman who’s just given birth gets caught in the rain, she will catch a “baby cold” which will cause her death and leave her baby motherless.

·         Hold your breath when driving by a cemetery or you will breathe in the spirit of someone who recently died and was buried there.

·         If the eyes of a dead person are left open, he or she will find someone to take with them.

·         Cranberry juice keeps your kidneys and urinary tract healthy and either fights or prevents urinary tract infections.

·         Don’t cross your eyes, they’ll stuck that way.

·         Telling lies will (1) make your nose grow longer, (2) cause a pimple on your tongue, (3) cause a sore on your lips.

·         Don’t drop a needle, you might step on it and get an infection.

·         Feed a cold and starve a fever.

·         Starve a cold and feed a fever.

(I’ll leave it to you to decide which one those to follow.)

·         If you go outside with a wet head, you’ll catch a cold.

·         Cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis.

·         Covering your mouth when sneezing will prevent your soul from escaping

·         Spicy foods cause ulcers

·         Watching too much TV or sitting too close to the TV will make you blind.

·         A watched pot never boils.

If you want to read on about pregnancy related Old Wives’ Tales, check out this website:

List of 51 pregnancy old wives tales: Your baby’s sex revealed!

http://www.hisboyscanswim.com/658/list-of-51-pregnancy-old-wives-tales-your-babys-sex-revealed

Resources

Travis, Wendy. Life Script. 10 Common Superstitions.

http://www.lifescript.com/soul/spirit/beliefs/10_common_superstitions.aspx?gclid=CITPj4C9h68CFVO9tgodwBCpBQ&trans=1&du=1&ef_id=3FdOP%40Ng%40mMAAExE%3a20120327161628%3as

Wikipedia. Superstition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition

Wikipedia. Old Wives’ Tale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_wives%27_tale

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Common Superstitions.

http://www.csicop.org/superstition/library/common_superstitions/

Ford, Allison. Divine Caroline. Old Wives’ Tales: Fact or Fiction?

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22360/72592-wives-tales-fact-folklore

The Longest List of the Longest Stuff at the Longest Domain Name at Long Last. The A-Z of Old Wives’ Tales.

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/tales110.html

This popular Urban Legend is about a school bus, with an undetermined number of students that stalled on railroad tracks. The driver did all he could to get the bus started but all efforts failed. Before he had a chance to evacuate the children from the bus a train smashed into the bus killing all the children and the driver.

The Legend then goes on to say that the city, in remembrance of the students who lost their lives that day, named streets near the accident site after them. 

A couple of weeks after the accident some high school students were out for a drive when their car stalled on the railroad tracks exactly where the bus had. The driver put the car in neutral and the kids were getting ready to get out to push the car to safety when the car started to move. At first the car just rocked and then it rolled over the railroad tracks out of harms way. It was as if it was being pushed but the kids did not see anyone around. 

The story spread quickly and it was believed that it was the ghosts of the children who passed away in the bus/train accident that pushed the vehicle to safety. It did not take long before people started going to the tracks and putting their car in neutral in hopes that the children would push their car across the tracks. Those that tried this reported that their vehicle was pushed across the tracks by some unseen force.

A skeptical detective wanted to try this for himself to prove that there is no such thing as ghost children. He had the idea of putting powder on the back of his car that way he would be able to tell if anything or anyone touched it. He put his car in neutral on the tracks and sure enough the car started to move and eventually was pushed completely clear of the tracks. The detective got out of his car and could not believe his eyes! There on his bumper were small handprints.

While it is a great story it is not true. Well, some of it is true but the facts are a little off. 

The story of an accident appeared in the December 12, 1938 issue of TIME magazine. The story reported that 23 children and a school bus driver lost their life in a train accident. The accident; however, did not take place in San Antonio, Texas. It happened on a snowy, foggy morning in Midvale, Utah on December 1, 1938. The bus did not stall on the tracks but was moving over the tracks after the driver came to a complete stop and looked for any trains. Not seeing a train (most likely due to the fog and snow) he proceeded across the tracks right into the path of an oncoming train.

How do we explain all the people that have experienced being pushed over the railroad tracks by invisible hands? It is an optical illusion; while the road appears to go uphill it is actually a downhill grade. This is very similar to what is known as a gravity hill and there are several located around the world.

Even though there have been several reports of people using powder on the back of their cars to capture the handprints of the ghost children this is also something that can be explained. Our hands contain oils and even after a handprint has faded the oils remain behind. A regular car wash does not remove the oil. When you put the powder on the back of your car the oil from our hands will bleed through the powder making it look like invisible hands were pushing the car. 

This is a great example of an Urban Legend that was based on actual events but like most Urban Legends the details and location change depending on where you are. 

On a day Tumang not want to follow his orders to pursue their prey. So the dog is expelled into the woods by him.

When he returned to the palace, Sangkuriang recounted the incident to her mother. Dayang Sumbi very angry when she heard the story. He accidentally hit Sangkuriang’s head with a rice ladle in her hand. Sangkuriang injured and bleeding. He was very disappointed and and decided to go wandering. After the incident, Dayang Sumbi feel very sorry. She was always very diligent in prayer and penance. At one time, the gods gave him a gift. She was blessed with forever young and has a timeless beauty.

After years of wandering, Sangkuriang eventually intends to return to his homeland. Arriving there, the kingdom has changed completely. There he met a lovely girl, who was none other Dayang Sumbi. Fascinated by the beauty of the woman then, Sangkuriang proposed. Therefore he is very handsome youth, Dayang Sumbi was very fascinated him.

On a day Sangkuriang asked permission to hunt. He asked for help Dayang Sumbi to spruce up the headband. Dayang Sumbi was surprised to see the scars on her fiance’s head. The cut was exactly like a wound that has left her son to leave. After a long noticed, it turns out the young man’s face is very similar to her son’s face. He became very frightened.

So then he sought power to thwart the proposal process. He filed two terms. First, she asked the young man to stem the Citarum river. And second, she asked Sangkuriang to make a large canoe to cross the river for their wedding day’s purpose. The second condition that must be accomplished before dawn.

That night Sangkuriang do meditation. With his power he exert magical creatures to help finish the job. Dayang Sumbi secretly peek at the work. Once the work was almost complete, Dayang Sumbi ordered his troops to roll out a red silk cloths at the east of town and lit many torches.

When watching the color red in the east of the city, Sangkuriang thought it was late morning. He also stopped work. He was very upset because it meant he could not qualify the requested of Dayang Sumbi.

He asked for additional time but she refused it. With his strength and driving by angry, he made the dam break. There followed the great flood swept through the city. He was later kicked the large canoe that he made before. The canoe was floated and landed, by the time it turned into a mountain. today known as mountain “Tangkuban Perahu”

2) If you live in a city with public transportation get on it and have fun! Go with some friends or meet some a long the way!

3) Get out of the house to a museum!

4)Start a conversation someone random!

5) Talk with older people! they usually have some awesome stories and always enjoy the company.

6) Find out interesting things about the town or city you live in.

7) Go to your local library and read a book. If your not interested in reading, hang out there.

Volunteer doing something you like.

9) Find that to-do list you have always been putting in the back of your mind.

10) Take a nap.

Grandma was right: never take a drink from strangers. Sometimes a businessman is relaxing at the local bar or a lonely girl is having a drink when a stranger sits next to the person, starts a conversation and offers to buy a drink. After taking a few shots of alcohol, the person starts to feel dizzy and faints. When the person wakes up, he/she is in a bathtub in some hotel room covered with ice. There is a note and a phone next to the person that says “call 911″ When the paramedics arrived to the scene, the paramedics discovered that the person’s kidney has been removed–probably sold on the black market.  

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/robbery/kidney.asp

The Ghost Hitchhiker

I don’t know about you, but I will never pick up a hitchhiker. The ghost hitchhiker story is one of the oldest urban legends. A man who picks up a girl on the side of the road, drives her to her house, but when he turns to say “goodbye or here we are” he finds the backseat of the car empty. Terrified, the man rings the doorbell of the house, and he is told that the girl has been dead for many years.

There is something about this legend that I can’t quite put my finger on it: why take the backseat and not the front seat? 

New York City infested with alligators

Some people claimed to have seen alligators coming out of the sewers. New Yorkers were vacationing in Florida, and thought that it was a good idea to bring back baby alligators to New York to raise as pets. Once the alligators started to grow up, the New Yorkers flushed the alligators down the toilet to get rid of them. The alligators managed to survive and breed in the sewers. Maybe the alligators escaped from the local zoos– I doubt it. There have been several reports–police officers have seen the alligators, too.

http://socyberty.com/folklore/alligators-in-the-sewers-legend-terrifying-urban-legend/

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After reading several articles about zombies, I discovered an amazing fact that it turns out that zombies are real, but they may not like what we thought.

Zombie is actually a man half dead are being deliberately being manipulated / controlled. Zombie derivatives and left the island of Haiti in the Caribbean. The place is that many shamans who master a wide range of science. They are commonly called voodoo sorcerer (voodoo).

It ends Voodoo (Vodun in Benin, tra cui Vudu, Voodoo, suona come una Altrimenti ortografia simile ad Haiti, he nella Repubblica Dominicana Vudu) sono di Filiali sensitiv, Animist tradizione religiosa dei Popoli deriva Dagli antenati dell’Africa West.

Udtrykket Voodoo (i voodoo Benin, OGSA voodoo, voodoo Andet eller, i noget der Lyder stavemåder lignende Haiti Voodoo Dominikanska Republik Den i) er til givet subsidiaries and AF-spiritualist tradition Stammer fra i animistiske religiose fædrene Vestafrika popular.

Roots varied and include the Fon, Ewe and Yoruba of West Africa, from western Nigeria to eastern Ghana. In Benin, Voodoo is the national religion, and professed by 60% of the population, or about 4 ½ million people. Word Voodoo comes from the mind the word means Fon-Ewe. Moreover, voodoo is strongly influenced by Central African traditions. Rite of Congo, which is also known in northern Haiti, Lemba {originally a religion practiced by widespread Bakongo nation West African elements, but generally ignored by many Westerners.

Enough with the voodoo, return to zombie. So the fact that zombies are people who deliberately put to death by voodoo priests and then again to obey their orders to be enslaved.

Zombie like humans, can move, eat, hear and speak, but they have no memory and an overview of their condition. They are like a puppet with no soul, but it can be manipulated.

Centuries-old legend of zombies are already with us, but nobody knows the origin of the zombies, until finally a case unfold and spread, in society

In 1962, Haiti. A man named Clairivius Narcisse was sold to a Voodoo shaman by his brother, because Clairvius refused to sell his share of family land. Clairvius just dead and buried. But benar2 not really dead, but it broke and the use of sugar cane plantations diperkejakan zombies zombies with other employees.

In 1964, after the owner of a zombie is dead, zombies, which eventually spread and wander along the island state of “daze” about 16 years before this mereka2 arrested.

Intrigued by this case, Dr.Wade Davis, Harvard University expert special Ethnobiology arrived in Haiti to discover the truth behind the zombies. He found that the practice of zombies is much to do in Haiti, Caribbean.

How They make a zombie

Zombie actually came from Haiti in the Caribbean islands. They died and resurrected by a voodoo priest and used to be a slave for the rest of their lives very miserable. But the dead who are the zombies are not completely “dead”. But they built looks like “death.” They can move, eat, hear, speak, but they have no memories and ideas about their own condition.

There is one case where a person has become a zombie sharply to normal people. In 1962, Haiti was a man named Narcissus was sold to a Claivius zombie master by his brother. 2 years later, the man was dead zombies and walked around the island in a trance for 16 years. After that. Influence of drugs on him gradually disappearing in 1980, accidentally Claivius Sodar daughter are on the market and recognize it. Initially, his sister did not know. But after Claivius to tell about their experiences in childhood that only they know, finally believing his sister.

Dr. Wade Davis, an expert etnobiologi Harvard University, went to Haiti to investigate this story and find the making of zombies. As for the chemicals and the steps are as follows:

Zombie turns toward Haiti, mostly composed of people who have already been buried, but not quite dead. Because the air is very hot in Haiti, the dead will be buried immediately to prevent rot. In reality, not necessarily the person was dead at all, may still comatose, near death, or something. Zombie Master Situation to dig graves and find people who are still “alive” and when he gave the frog skin, drink and fish ball further slow the blood flow and heart rate, in combination with grass jimpsons to remove the memory and remove the zombies with the reality of the candidate, does not even recognize. Then the zombie used as slaves, usually working in sugarcane plantations. If the zombie looks like it has started to recover, then return to the zombie host jimpsons grass

Create Zombie Chemical analysis

First Frogs Leather

Frog skin is usually called Bufo Bufo Bufo can kill, especially if the frogs had felt threatened. There are three chemical content in the skin of frogs of biogenic amines and bufogenik bufotoksin. An effect is to relieve pain is stronger than cocaine.

2. Blowfish

In Japan, known as fugo puffer fish. Poison called “tetrodotoxin” is a deadly neurotoxin. The effect is 160,000 times stronger than cocaine. There are many cases where people are conscious of having been declared dead for several days due to the ingestion of the poison .

3. Datura (grass jimpson)

Datura contains chemicals antropin, hyoskiamin, and scopolamine, which can react to a powerful hallucinogen when given the appropriate dose. In addition, chemicals can also erase the memory, causing paralysis and death.

Therefore, the chemist who did the zombie potion to be really talented to cause side effects that cause the death of the candidate, Zombie, because the difference between “death” with “apparently dead” is very thin.

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Sometimes, we will ask ….¿ a woman on a dangerous curve? Can you see a spirit reflected in a mirror? “Just dogs lick?. Sometimes legends can not be as legends ke.

VERONICA
If you stand in front of a mirror at night and dark in a bathroom with three lit candles, and you invoke Veronica saying its name three times (one for each candle) is reflected in the mirror your date of death in the steam produced by candles.

GIRL OF THE CURVE

One night in a car were a girl and her family for a road from Vera. When they reached a dangerous hairpin bend and crashed, and the girl and her family (father, mother and sister) disappeared. His relatives have not heard anything back from them.

At the present time to time, hitchhiking girl appears to truckers who pass through there.
The truck that picks up asks him why he’s doing such a young girl hitchhiking. She tells him to be careful in the curve, that is to kill.
Then the girl disappears and the truck driver is killed in the same corner where she disappeared.
Not yet know when it appears.

Another legend VERONICA
One day he met a group of friends to spiritualism, but found a home in which to do so, and thought to spiritualism in a cemetery. Almost nobody liked the idea, but I found it very exciting and agreed.
Once they reached the cemetery, did not know who to rely, and a girl came up to invoke Veronica. The girl he loved Veronica, he knew many stories about it, but it had never occurred to her to summon him to tell his true story.

All were placed and began to rely on, but nothing happened, everyone is getting impatient, but the girl did not, was fully convinced that Veronica would appear.
After several hours and left him and the girl was very quiet and serious. Two days later, the girl told her friends that strange things happened at night.
A friend told him to stay one night in his house to see if it was true or inventions. When they went to bed, began to hear voices very rare, as if coming from afar. Began to be afraid when these voices became clearer and more intense, but then the voices stopped and the boy asked the girl if it was a joke and she said no, it was Veronica, who did not like what we had done , after a few minutes in a mirror you could see the silhouette of a woman.
Began to shake, and heard a voice coming from afar:
I do not like cemeteries, do not know anything about me

Veronica is said that he told them his true history, but you never know the truth, and who went crazy. He committed suicide and she tries to commit suicide but failed, and admitted to a mental hospital.

Whenever asked about that night, she becomes hysterical and unable to speak, does not let Veronica. Nobody knows the truth, but something terrible had to happen.

NOT ONLY THE DOGS LICK
A 9-year-old only child of parents of great influence, I had everything I had wished and hoped for a girl, but with an incomparable solitude. His parents used to go to parties, charities and political meetings, and left it alone.

Everything changed when he bought a large breed puppy, years passed and the girl and the dog became inseparable. A night like any other, the parents came to say goodbye to the girl, the dog used to sleeping with the girl, put it under the bed.

The parents left and soon the girl fell into a deep sleep at about 2:30 am, a loud noise woke her, and scrapes were mild and then louder. Then, fearful, reached down for the dog to the lamiese (was like a code between it and the dog) did it and then settled down and slept again.

When he awoke in the morning he discovered something shocking: The vanity mirror was something written in blood saying ONLY DOGS LICK N0.
Then uttered a cry of horror at seeing his dog slain on the floor of his room.
It is said that when the parents returned was completely disrupted and only said “who licked me?”.
And the question is: according to those who went to investigate the nursery, said the dog was already dead, that is crucified on the ground had been there for hours. Who licked the girl’s hand under the bed?

HEADLESS NURSE
Legend has it that many years ago a beautiful nurse was going to marry a doctor, they worked in the Loayza hospital in the Peruvian capital. The wedding date was near and the boyfriend went to his hometown to invite their relatives.
During the trip had an accident in which he was killed.
Upon hearing the news, the nurse was on duty, decided to end his life.

At that time in the hospital were being new pavilions, which had construction equipment at the time. The nurse who worked on the second floor decided to jump into the void and so end his life, and this coincidence happened and fell on a tapered irons, which cut off his head.

There was dead without a head nurse.
After the time is still seen walking the halls of the hospital. Some patients swear to have been attended by a nurse resplendent white suit and say they could not see his face.

At the root of these phenomena has created the history of the nurse without a head.

Holy Company
The Holy Company is, in popular mythology Galicia and Asturias, a procession of dead souls in purgatory or in the fog of the night (from midnight) go wandering the roads of the parish.
Its mission is to visit all those houses that will soon be a death.

THE TAXI OF DEATH

On the streets of the Chacarita some say in the cemetery surrounding the place is a taxi, but a very particular: the taxi only includes people who leave the Chacarita cemetery to converitrlas in cadavers after visit graves of their loved ones.

In 1978 a now-defunct neighborhood newspaper (all Real), published an article which stated that a man found a woman, dead on his mother’s tombstone. The doctors claimed that the woman had a deep depression caused by the death of a loved one, in this case her mother, but nevertheless, some neighbors said referring to a myth neighborhood raise doubts about what really happened to victim, identified as Philip N. Hosperttato.

Legend has it that the woman in question was tired and did not want to walk the blocks separating it from the bus stop, decided to take a taxi. Then he saw one coming, it stopped, climbed. He said the driver the address and immersed in memories of when his mother was alive, that distinguish him from the pale of the driver or the very slow pitch that replied to hear the address.

Suddenly began to feel a cold, cold never felt before, was all too cold. Wanted to close the window and was closed. It was then paid attention to certain physical characteristics of who was driving. He tried to speak but was speechless when I see the thin hands, his skin almost stuck to the bones, almost white driver. When he wanted to see her face through the front mirror, he could not because he was wealthy so that only saw the empty seat beside the driver.

Then he spoke: “sorry” was not answered, the man insisted and continued silent. When he raised his hand to touch the shoulder of the driver is scared: Felipa’s own hand was a dead man was the same as the driver, pale and thin. He found that his other hand was the same. Yelled when he saw reflected in the glass it looked like the face of the corpse of a woman and more when it found that that was his image. When trying to mourn, he could not.

After this, the taxi stopped and saw Felipa had ended in the same place where they began: the Chacarita cemetery. No strange man asked why the stop, voices from inside, among the tombstones called her because she was just one of them, from the dead.

There are taxi drivers who talk about a “weirdo” who never gets off to join the girl, or eat something out of the taxi. Also evident is chilling: RIP 666. Rip: tomb and 666 the number which identifies it to the devil.

It also claims to have saved a man saw his father killed in a bicycle, made it back to reality, pay attention to the driver and shot himself. This man claims that the mysterious man always looked after this event. A week later to provide the testiminio, this gentleman died.

No one knows for sure if this is true or not, it will probably never know, but just in case, beware if you walk around the area of ​​the Chacarita cemetery.

EMI DAMN CLOWN

In Barcelona in 1992 had a couple of immigrants, one Uruguayan and his wife in Argentina, which had a little boy named David. Rented an old house, in those years no one lived. There are, among so many old and dirty thing, a puppet pulled a old clown that the boy falls in love and decide to stay. Emi they put the doll because it was the name that was engraved on his arm.

Time passes and the child is very attached to the doll.

But suddenly, the child is frightened at night, feels that someone grabs his neck. Who puts their toys at bedtime as protectors, to appear despertarce lying on the ground. Not all toys, Emi still there.

Suddenly, David is afraid of Emi, but parents do not listen. The child begins to have nightmares and wanting to sleep with their parents, but they send him to bed angry.

Until one stormy night, worried by the cry of the child’s parents come in and found the doll on the child’s neck, like a clown I want to strangle. The father wanted to take the child’s hands but could not. Finally he did and threw the doll.

When the parents consulted residents on the fact, they were asked if they had something to identify them and the parents said yes that was engraved the name of EMI. The neighbors were alarmed. Since Emi were the initials of Enriqueta Martí known as Vampira Vampira de Barcelona, ​​Carrer Ponent.

A woman in early twentieth century, murdered children, after the coax, to remove the blood and prolong the youth of both she and several nobles of Catalonia.

Through some crazy web of entanglement we have had the same people choose and by choice I mean through self will, decided to make an end to what seems to be an haunting life of struggle. It actually appears as a demon that cannot seem to be quenched by the platform of celebrity status. What drives talent to the edge of self destruct, what right do we have to adorn mere mortals to a godly status. Rumour has it or rather urban legend has it that some sold their souls for the gift of celebrity, ” the fallen angels” of our time through hard work they seemed to climb both social and economical ladder just to loose the grip when they got to the top. Some believe its jealousy that cost most of the falling. Paul Williams of the temptations to me stood out in a class of his own, he not delivered heart moving incarndesense but gave the music his soul, he was moved by the songs he sang that at times seemed to relate to the songs. On stage he brought a feeling that not only was he unworthy of a kind of love, only he seemed to farthom but still could not believe that he actually made it. I don’t believe Paul sold his soul, nor did he simply give all away, but he carried the bag of his struggled youth to the fortune that seemed to consume his presence, but through his death Paul not only triumphed but found the peace he so craved for on stage.

The all American sweet “hurt” Marlyn Monroe, naked, dreaming…, wishing that the heart will let go of what only her knows and what the world seemed to perceive of her world, no body knows what pains so much that you just have to let all flow away. Seems they all felt alone that they seemed to have an urge to die alone, in the pain that carried through their lives which always was a struggling lively hood from a broken home that you built a house in your head that comes out on stage but the feeling always is tantalizing for it varnishes off stage and people can’t seem to separate a theatrical character from an actuall character who tries to play out his role in the film of life.

Stuart Adamson, self strangulation? Through the fame alone drinking, the scottish drummer decides to end it all  and the world cries why? If heaven is real and I’m religious, and you took your life because of pain, uncontrollabe pain I think I ould be beside the soul, comforting the pain, in heaven or hell…

So the question becomes… “why, in this modern age of 24-hour news and the internet, do such legendary tales continue to flourish as they have done for hundreds or, as is likely, thousands of years?”

The question is certainly interesting. It is partly, answered by our willingness to believe the person to whom this happened to really exists.  Also a willingness to believe the urban legend is a factor in why urban legends initially exist, why they adapt and mutate to the situation/generation… but they rarely die, unlike so many of the characters in them.

The well-known American folklorist Jan Harold Bruvand, defines an urban legend as “a strong basic story-appeal, a foundation in actual belief, and a meaningful message or ‘moral’.”  Like countless other stories tales with their roots in the tradition of oral storytelling, urban myths are a complete story in a small and illusorily basic package. They are simply a story with a hard-hitting sequence of events that can be easily altered to suit different locales, cultures and times.