SUPERSTITIONS AND OLD WIVES’ TALES IN SINGAPORE
1. When you rub a hard-boiled egg over your bruise, the blue-black colour will transfer onto the egg and make the bruise go away.
2. If you point at the moon, you’ll get a cut behind your ear.
3. Drinking papaya milk will give you bigger boobs.
4. Leaving bits of rice in your rice bowl after a meal will cause your future spouse to have lots of acne and pockmarks.
5. Pontianaks (a kind of spirit) come with a strong Frangipani scent – but the closer it gets to you, the weaker the scent will be. Which means, when the scent fades to nothing….