The more you try to live a normal life, the more you find yourself thinking when your fingers will fall out. Pandits in this country don't make things any better to educate the devotees that the things we were taught to believe in the past do not exist. Instead, they put more fear into people's mind to attend Mandir more often even if nothing happens to you.
We had a guest came over who I consider a religious freak. She is a cousin of my wife. She is gyaf woman. Me and she head nah tag-a-lang. But I do give her my full attention and respect.
Before she leaves, she gave us a list of things we must and must not do before this and that happen to us. We do this and that wrong. Sleep with your heads facing this side because dead people facing that side. Don't have sex on this day, but do puja instead. What?
This is when things were really getting under my skin, but my wife was giving me signs to behave myself until she's gone.
Anyway, if anyone has to believe these things and go along with every detail from the voodoo book, it would be a life-changing experience in the superstition world. The same world we escape the fright when you hear jumbie story at a wake house in Guyana.
How many of you believe in superstitions?