did anyone else's grandma tell them not to swallow the seeds of a fruit, so like grapes, apples, watermelons etc., or a fruit tree (depending on which fruit you swallowed the seeds of) will grow in your stomach? 😂😅
Oh I see, no, it wasn't mentioned. In Russian culture, it means the opposite. Russians believe that when dishware breaks, it is for good luck. One time, I accidentally broke a wine glass, and I freaked out because I thought my mom would be upset, but she actually said, "it's okay, it happened for good luck."
I've heard from a friend that if a utensil falls down a guest will arrived depending on the utensil's side for example if a fork/spoon(idk about knife) fall and it's facing the front side an angel will appear meanwhile if it falls down on the opposite side a demon(or maybe) a black angel will come
This actually happened to me twice when I was young, my ears wern't cut off, but there was a small sort of cut on the back of one of my ears. You need to do it not on purpose for it to actually work. (True story, no lie)
Same here! I don't know why or how it's logical possible, but it's happened to me, my brother, my nephew. It's not only a bloody cut, it also hurts a lot.
In Malaysia my mum say if people cut our nails at night, ghost will collect our nails fragments to create another us, who it will later kill and replace us and our family will never notice. (Idk if I used the word 'fragments' correct or not :o )
Sherman Stanley if you put your fingernails at south or west I forgot .... The ghost will come at midnight and clip their fingers at the end of ur bed and replace their nails with your nail
A friend of mine is muslim and he told me not to whistle at night or demons called "schinns" will apear and might attack you. If you wistle in your home at night the demons will claim your home for them and throw you out.
I don't know about anyone else but my mother always told me not to shower right after eating/dinner or else the heat will mess with your digestive system. (Not sure if that's what she really said, I was very young when she told me this)
my korean friends have all been terrified of leaving fans on at night. living in LA, i slept with the fans on every night. i never understood the fear lol.
+Wade Wilson - Yes, but he claimed there's some validity to it. There isn't. Millions and millions of people sleep with a fan on at night. And they aren't dying from it.
I agree. I'm 56 and have slept with a fan on in my closed room(s) for many years! I'm still alive! :) But why does this only persist in Asian Countries?
I'm starting to notice that I'm subscribed to a lot of channels run by people from various Asian countries or having Asian countries as topic and I really don't know why that is actually. Also, I've noticed that Asian-Americans or Asian-Europeans become very dear to me real quick. Every culture has awesome and bad things about it, but people with Asian heritage seem to go around that and have the best attributes from both worlds, but non of the bad. At least that's how I feel about it, I'm sure there are exceptions, but this turns out to be true more often than not, you guys are just so well rounded personalities imo.
Fan death thing is completely false. Hypothermia doesn't work like that, and a fan doesn't cause it. I'm pretty surprised these guys believe in it. Thought they were smarter than that.
Just to add, fans don't chill the air, they only circulate it. There's no way you'll get hypothermia from a fan. Please educate yourselves. www.snopes.com/medical/freakish/fandeath.asp
+Double Chen guys, hypo or hyperthermia caused by a fan is still false. Fans won't heat the air in the room to raise your internal body temperature. It just won't happen. The sweating thing you describe is totally false. Really, please Google this and you'll easily find that fan death is simply not true, in any form. I'm very surprised you guys believe it's true because you seem level headed, but it's just scientifically impossible to die from a fan causing hyperthermia or anything else. Seriously just please Google it.
+PearlOscarful And I'm guessing it can't be good to breathe in all the stale air that's trapped for an entire night? and about the previous part that I wrote, that could increase blood pressure and cause vasodilation and that's not good for your body too!
+Adora Du I actually think that Chinese medicine works because it works based on the homeostatic balance of your body... I mean, hey the Chinese have been around for thousands of years and we're still around, this must say something about the effectiveness of Chinese medicine, right? idk, just my thoughts!(:
I'm Arab and we have No.#2 "the nail" thing as well xD , No.#5 instead they say pregnant women shouldn't look at ugly things or ugly animals or the baby will be like them xD hhaah as if even if they weren't true ... they are still funny and enjoyable haha XD
My mom taught us to never make fun of anybody or hate anyone based on their physical features or we will have kids with those features. She always used my brothers as examples because they're lefties and she's racist against lefties. Lol
thenotorious ong hahah yesss here too, even if you say something just a mere joke on someone's physical features or even the walk .. you either get that or your kids xD !' hahaha the lefties one is funny though, don't they say ppl using left hand is like more smart or something ? XD even tho here its impolite to shake hands/give something/eat with the left hands xD but at least it has some good ... stuff :P
People in some European countries used to believe that about pregnant women too. One explanation for why the Elephant Man was deformed was that his mother was frightened by an elephant while she was pregnant.
Aymocha well ty I guess ? XD but thank god it's not an academic paper .. it's youtube :P so we need to relax and write things like ~ this ~ and that ~ and draw rainbows and run ~~~~~ fast!!~~~ hahaha :P
+Val Young the don't have to, that is true. but the BIGGEST country in South East Asia is the green one that being highlighted. It's like you highlighting the whole country and then too lazy to mention that one specific country and mention other countries around it.
You know where that country is? That HUGE one from left to right, that taking the overall map. I found it a bit strange too that they failed to mention the country when it's OBVIOUSLY there, the biggest one. I don't understand it. Maybe they should show a map of China and then not say anything about it.
+123haninhk lol ok. They can do whatever they want it's their vid, don't be so sensitive, they said Southeast Asia. If this was a vid about only Indonesia and they didn't mention it then fine but it's not. So lol. Try doing UA-cam yourself and see how many ppl will pick on random things :P
One creepy one is that you shouldn't go on or near water during the Tomb Sweeping Festival or spirits of dead people will pull you under the water. I think this is just regional, like in Jiangsu. A few years ago some students at my school went on a boat tour on Qing Ming (Tomb Sweeping Day), there was an accident, and three of them died. Another one of my students said when her grandmother found out, she said, "Didn't they know that if you go on the water on Qing Ming the spirits will drown you?" Even more creepily, that year the Tomb Sweeping Festival was on April 4th (04/04), and the number four sounds the same as the word die in Chinese.
I'm a bit upset you didn't specifically mention Indonesia for the 3 people in a pic tale, coz it is very big here as well :) anyhow great video as always!
Never heard about the leg shaking theory, but now that I have, I kinda believe it. Rings true in my case. Never could sleep with a fan in the room myself. Very much dislike the feeling on my skin. Maybe in a past life I was killed by one ;).
here's one i grew up with. "If a bird flies into your home, someone you're related to will die soon." "Don't do that, you'll go blind" (Wanking) "Don't open an umbrella indoors"
In India there's something like If you lick the utensils the food was made in (like a pan) after eating, it will rain or there would be a storm on your wedding day
whenever I was little I remember walking on a carpet with red polkadots and whenever I steped in one of them this is what my mom said: don't step it them its fire. probably to trick me or something so I kept avoiding them LOL
When they started talking about ear size leading to wealth and prosperity, I immediately thought of ferengis from deep space nine 😂 "you don't have to lobes for it!"
we had a Korean live with us when I was 12. he was going to Ga Tech. He's like a brother to me. once lightning struck a tree close to the house. He runs around yelling, "Not me! Not me!". He wanted a part of the tree. He said if you carry it about in your belt, you won't be struck by lightning.
Before I moved, my room had a ceiling fan right over the lower half of my bed, and in the summer I turn it on high and sleep and I'm still here. Maybe it's because sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up cold and cover myself with blankets.
I saw Dan on the plane to Vegas from SFO! I was too shy to say hi coz you were with your gf 😣😂😂 I do the rice one too and my man's skin is flawlessss LOL
My Japanese mom would sing a lullaby before sleep, ending with a sentence suggesting that if you don't sleep immediately, a man in the night will cut off your ears 😅
the shaking leg thing my mom told me the same thing but shes also an awesome mom. i went to the doctors, then the doctors said i have ADHD since i was 12 and then she was like, "oh, i didnt know, no wonder why you keep moving ur leg" i laughed so hard
I use a fan like every day of the year when Im asleep and yeah I’m often super dehydrated when I awake or feel quite unwell when I awake. Yes I could just not use the fan but I’m used to it’s white noise and can’t afford a white noise machine. Plus I do prefer to have a the ability to have some sort of cover on while sleeping as it’s comforting.
My grandma told me that if i dont clean my plate properly and that rice is dotted around the plate, i'll get a severe case of acne. I didn't believe her and never cleaned my plate properly. I have a bad case of acne now that im reached puberty. I still dont clean my plate well.
in turkish we have "koca karı masalları" which translates old wives tales also:) and cutting nails at night is one of them actually. we now most of that folkloric stuff comes from pre-islam, shamanism era and of course asia. it's nice to see cultural similarities like these having roots from hundreds of years back then
Back n elementary, me and my friends love to talk about ghost story and stuff like that. One person says that if we are in a group in someplace with ghosts or at night, then the middle person will be the one who will be take away to die.
in middle school they said every time we tear a page from our books a leaf from a tree falls. also when you smell flowers, insects travel up your nasal path, crack your skull and chew your brain and eat your eyes out. yep that was my third grade teacher
Here in the phil we also believed that if you peep at the opposite gender you get a sty or a "kulatoy" and that you should NEVER point at a tree directly or the spirit in the tree might think you are mocking it and overall curse you...
The fan one is crap. Both of my parents have obsessively slept with a fan since they were teenagers. When I was growing up I had to share a room for awhile and got the fan bug. I can't remember a time without a fan and even use one in the cold winter. I just use more blankets and make a super cozy cocoon. I can't sleep without it.
The issue with the fan death is that the body regulates temperature through muscle twitching and blood flow this is why your fingers and toes feel really cold sometimes. Also, the thyroid gland controls body temperature more than any thing else.
My mom used to tell me if I looked outside for to long, I'll see a strange creature outside that will kill me, and that if I played with shadows, they'll come to life and kill me
"If you whistle at night, there will be a snake in front of you." "If you eat too much of the same food you will turn into that food" "If you brake a mirror, you will have bad luck for 7 years."
I know one Japanese wives tale where: If you leave your belly button exposed during a thunderstorm, lightning will steal it away. Idk what exactly would happen if lightning stole your belly button, but it's amusing none the less.
So much love between them! Aww that's true friendship!! Lots of these things tell me why I'm poor haha! I was told if I didn't finish my rice I would be poor instead of the other thing ^^ As a result I alwaaaayys finished everything I starteed but now I just don't force myself anymore since it's better for your health ^^
7:25 I remember being 13 practicing my piano lessons and I kept messing it up. I was getting soooo pissed/ frustrated (but I was trying to keep my cool) my ears were hot and the tips of them turned bright red to the point to where my teacher busted out laughing ( I have brown skin and it was still really noticeable)
did anyone else's grandma tell them not to swallow the seeds of a fruit, so like grapes, apples, watermelons etc., or a fruit tree (depending on which fruit you swallowed the seeds of) will grow in your stomach? 😂😅
yep. saw a man online that it did happen to. seed went down the wrong pipe and was growing
Yes!!!! My grandma said that!!!!
lol Western grandma say that too
My mum used to say that!
Yep I heard that
Here is a funny Russian myth: if a utensil (fork, spoon, knife) falls on the floor, a guest will soon arrive at your house.
im not sure if the video mentioned this but if a plate or bowl suddenly slip from your hand and crack, it means a terrible accident will happen
Oh I see, no, it wasn't mentioned. In Russian culture, it means the opposite. Russians believe that when dishware breaks, it is for good luck.
One time, I accidentally broke a wine glass, and I freaked out because I thought my mom would be upset, but she actually said, "it's okay, it happened for good luck."
I've heard from a friend that if a utensil falls down a guest will arrived depending on the utensil's side for example if a fork/spoon(idk about knife) fall and it's facing the front side an angel will appear meanwhile if it falls down on the opposite side a demon(or maybe) a black angel will come
havent told you this but this myth is also around asia but like korea?
i mean the myth i just pointed out.. but the difference is so big because a terrible accident is like someone fatally wounded or something haha
Grew up with parents telling us to never point at the moon or it'll cut your ears off when you sleep. 😲
hmmm I should have no head then
This actually happened to me twice when I was young, my ears wern't cut off, but there was a small sort of cut on the back of one of my ears. You need to do it not on purpose for it to actually work. (True story, no lie)
yeah same....
Same here! I don't know why or how it's logical possible, but it's happened to me, my brother, my nephew. It's not only a bloody cut, it also hurts a lot.
I thought it was real cuz when I was young my skin was very dry and my ears kept bleeding
my grandma used to tell me that if i don't finish my rice, my boyfriend would have many pimples on his face... HAHAHA
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Same hi kpop fan I'm a kpop fan as well
In Malaysia my mum say if people cut our nails at night, ghost will collect our nails fragments to create another us, who it will later kill and replace us and our family will never notice. (Idk if I used the word 'fragments' correct or not :o )
The word fragments is right, but you should've said "nail fragments" instead of "nails fragments."
My mum told me that people would hate me if I cut my nails at night 😂
yeah your right
Dude, this is creepy xD
Sherman Stanley if you put your fingernails at south or west I forgot .... The ghost will come at midnight and clip their fingers at the end of ur bed and replace their nails with your nail
I have tiny hands. Where's my money? :D
Never, ever, ever ask that question on the Internet. Just saying. I'm 99.9% you aren't going to like the replies.
This conversation sounds like two random parents teaching a lesson to a kid who asked a (definitely not) inappropriate question.
True :D
My mom always told me not to cut nails at night... 😁
Same
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Because there will be an asian ghost.
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Just found your channel. So far seems awesome! Pretty informative
Thanks so much!
Lol I just did too!
My Korean mom used to tell me not to whistle at night or you'll attract snakes.
my mom says: that if I whistle at night, a ghost will think im lonely and come visit me
+SunyGhost we weren't allowed to whistle because then you would attracted ghost...
my sister tell me that if you sing while you eat, your husband will cheat on you.
A friend of mine is muslim and he told me not to whistle at night or demons called "schinns" will apear and might attack you. If you wistle in your home at night the demons will claim your home for them and throw you out.
In lithuania my mom said not to whistle or your money will leave you.
Glad to find the new channel. OTGW isn't any fun without you. Good to see you again.
I don't know about anyone else but my mother always told me not to shower right after eating/dinner or else the heat will mess with your digestive system. (Not sure if that's what she really said, I was very young when she told me this)
same here
That is actually true.
My grandma told me not to shake my legs because it would look like you're on drugs lol...so I guess you would end up broke.
koligina I know this was posted awhile ago...but this made me laugh so hard!
only tale my mom told me: 'DO IT COZ I SAID SOO' .-.
that only goes so far
"Do not watch too much TV, or your eyes will become square shaped".
I have heard that one in Finland. When I was a kid I almost, at one point, believed it. But still continued watching ;-)
Also in Germany 😀
my korean friends have all been terrified of leaving fans on at night. living in LA, i slept with the fans on every night. i never understood the fear lol.
The fan one is still a myth. The explanation is just an urban legend. It has been tested and disproven.
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+PraiseDivineMercy all of them are myths. 🙄
+Wade Wilson - Yes, but he claimed there's some validity to it. There isn't. Millions and millions of people sleep with a fan on at night. And they aren't dying from it.
I agree. I'm 56 and have slept with a fan on in my closed room(s) for many years! I'm still alive! :) But why does this only persist in Asian Countries?
Mike Pellerin Parents do not want to pay for a high amount of electricity.
I so wanna hang out with you guys! You seem to be so much fun!
I'm starting to notice that I'm subscribed to a lot of channels run by people from various Asian countries or having Asian countries as topic and I really don't know why that is actually.
Also, I've noticed that Asian-Americans or Asian-Europeans become very dear to me real quick. Every culture has awesome and bad things about it, but people with Asian heritage seem to go around that and have the best attributes from both worlds, but non of the bad. At least that's how I feel about it, I'm sure there are exceptions, but this turns out to be true more often than not, you guys are just so well rounded personalities imo.
haha thanks!
Fan death thing is completely false. Hypothermia doesn't work like that, and a fan doesn't cause it. I'm pretty surprised these guys believe in it. Thought they were smarter than that.
Just to add, fans don't chill the air, they only circulate it. There's no way you'll get hypothermia from a fan. Please educate yourselves. www.snopes.com/medical/freakish/fandeath.asp
+PearlOscarful we are talking about hyperthermia :)
+Double Chen lol
+Double Chen guys, hypo or hyperthermia caused by a fan is still false. Fans won't heat the air in the room to raise your internal body temperature. It just won't happen. The sweating thing you describe is totally false. Really, please Google this and you'll easily find that fan death is simply not true, in any form. I'm very surprised you guys believe it's true because you seem level headed, but it's just scientifically impossible to die from a fan causing hyperthermia or anything else. Seriously just please Google it.
+PearlOscarful And I'm guessing it can't be good to breathe in all the stale air that's trapped for an entire night? and about the previous part that I wrote, that could increase blood pressure and cause vasodilation and that's not good for your body too!
Y'all are awesome! I just found the channel and have blown through like 20 videos! Y'all definitely deserve more subscribers!
The fan explanation sounds off. We air cool by heat exchange over a radiating surface.
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+Adora Du I actually think that Chinese medicine works because it works based on the homeostatic balance of your body... I mean, hey the Chinese have been around for thousands of years and we're still around, this must say something about the effectiveness of Chinese medicine, right? idk, just my thoughts!(:
It is, korean fan death is a myth
+Adora Du Thank you for staying civilized, it's hard to find sane people online nowadays(:
+Adora Du But this is a korean theory, not chinese theory.
So much research done for this video! There are so many of these that I grew up with haha.
Lol this explains why Donald Trump has small hands.
😂😂😂😂
The entire time they discussed the hand size thing, all I could think was, "Trump would certainly love that old wives tale!"
tommy94612 yes in trumps words my father gave me a small loan of 1 million dollars 🤑
tommy94612 my thoughts exactly! 7:33
Aha!
Expecting the fan death thing.
Haha. Better explanation than the last time I heard it when they said "it cuts up the oxygen in the air and suffocates you."
If you point 2 fans at each other, with a mirror behind each fan, it will cause a rip in the space-time continuum.
I'm Arab and we have No.#2 "the nail" thing as well xD ,
No.#5 instead they say pregnant women shouldn't look at ugly things or ugly animals or the baby will be like them xD hhaah as if
even if they weren't true ... they are still funny and enjoyable haha XD
My mom taught us to never make fun of anybody or hate anyone based on their physical features or we will have kids with those features. She always used my brothers as examples because they're lefties and she's racist against lefties. Lol
thenotorious ong hahah yesss here too, even if you say something just a mere joke on someone's physical features or even the walk .. you either get that or your kids xD !'
hahaha the lefties one is funny though, don't they say ppl using left hand is like more smart or something ? XD
even tho here its impolite to shake hands/give something/eat with the left hands xD but at least it has some good ... stuff :P
People in some European countries used to believe that about pregnant women too. One explanation for why the Elephant Man was deformed was that his mother was frightened by an elephant while she was pregnant.
This is just a grammar thing or whatever. You don't need to say No. Before # because it means the same thing.
Aymocha well ty I guess ? XD but thank god it's not an academic paper .. it's youtube :P so we need to relax and write things like ~ this ~ and that ~ and draw rainbows and run ~~~~~ fast!!~~~ hahaha :P
OMG I HAVE NEVER BEEN EARLY!!!!! Great video as usual
My grandma said don't cut your nails at night or else ghost will come
why you didn't mention Indonesia regarding the photo myth? the map is over there and being highlighted! the whole country!
they dont have to say every single country for each tale, geez, that would make the vid so damn long. plus ppl obviously saw the map if you did
+Val Young the don't have to, that is true. but the BIGGEST country in South East Asia is the green one that being highlighted. It's like you highlighting the whole country and then too lazy to mention that one specific country and mention other countries around it.
You know where that country is? That HUGE one from left to right, that taking the overall map. I found it a bit strange too that they failed to mention the country when it's OBVIOUSLY there, the biggest one. I don't understand it. Maybe they should show a map of China and then not say anything about it.
+123haninhk lol ok. They can do whatever they want it's their vid, don't be so sensitive, they said Southeast Asia. If this was a vid about only Indonesia and they didn't mention it then fine but it's not. So lol. Try doing UA-cam yourself and see how many ppl will pick on random things :P
One creepy one is that you shouldn't go on or near water during the Tomb Sweeping Festival or spirits of dead people will pull you under the water. I think this is just regional, like in Jiangsu. A few years ago some students at my school went on a boat tour on Qing Ming (Tomb Sweeping Day), there was an accident, and three of them died. Another one of my students said when her grandmother found out, she said, "Didn't they know that if you go on the water on Qing Ming the spirits will drown you?"
Even more creepily, that year the Tomb Sweeping Festival was on April 4th (04/04), and the number four sounds the same as the word die in Chinese.
this sounds reasonable
I'm a bit upset you didn't specifically mention Indonesia for the 3 people in a pic tale, coz it is very big here as well :) anyhow great video as always!
I have heard of the fan thing. These are very interesting to hear about and I like that you guys researched the history of them. thanks!
Oh my god! No wonder my girlfriend asks me to turn off the fan on her side of the bed before we fall asleep. I thought she was just cold!
Now you know.
lol
Never heard about the leg shaking theory, but now that I have, I kinda believe it. Rings true in my case.
Never could sleep with a fan in the room myself. Very much dislike the feeling on my skin. Maybe in a past life I was killed by one ;).
I know it's just a background but I like to imagine that Mike and Dan are actually on a pretty porch talking about old wives' tales
A Dutch saying: if you make a funny face when the clock sounds 12, your funny face becomes permanent.
here's one i grew up with. "If a bird flies into your home, someone you're related to will die soon."
"Don't do that, you'll go blind" (Wanking)
"Don't open an umbrella indoors"
Axy Gaming I was always told it was bad luck to open an umbrella indoors, too. Lol
If Fan Death was real, I would have died years ago. I do it nightly!
Really enjoy this type of videos :D
Well i just looked in my camera roll and most of the pics w/ 3 ppl, I was in the middle....😂😅
Hey are you still alive?
My family always told me that if you whistle at night robbers are gonna come in your house 😂
cutieee that's if you don't lock the door silly
I live in Texas, so I ALWAYS have a fan on at night in the summer and never open the window 😂
Very instructional. Tell us more about chinese face reading. I always enjoy your channels. Thanks, guys.
when your ears are ringing someone is talking about you here in Florida. At least that's the saying. Love your channels
When i saw one Asian tale that is don’t cut your finger nails in the night or you’ll die
Me:i never know that and most of my nails are cut at night.
In India there's something like If you lick the utensils the food was made in (like a pan) after eating, it will rain or there would be a storm on your wedding day
I can't sleep without my fan on.
My parents used to say that if you point straight at the moon, it will cut your ear.
Hi, I was a couple of month in China and was faced with a lot of 'tales'. Thank you for the informations!
whenever I was little I remember walking on a carpet with red polkadots and whenever I steped in one of them this is what my mom said: don't step it them its fire. probably to trick me or something so I kept avoiding them LOL
When you started talking about leg shaking I realised I was shaking my leg
I shake my leg all,the time unconsciously
When they started talking about ear size leading to wealth and prosperity, I immediately thought of ferengis from deep space nine 😂 "you don't have to lobes for it!"
we had a Korean live with us when I was 12. he was going to Ga Tech. He's like a brother to me. once lightning struck a tree close to the house. He runs around yelling, "Not me! Not me!". He wanted a part of the tree. He said if you carry it about in your belt, you won't be struck by lightning.
My Mom always told us, "peeing in the street causes a sty" I never peed in the street but I had a few stys lmao!
The fan at night...always wakes me up, not to mention gives me bad dreams.
My grandma told me if I don’t my rice my husband or wife will have pimples or freckles
Before I moved, my room had a ceiling fan right over the lower half of my bed, and in the summer I turn it on high and sleep and I'm still here. Maybe it's because sometimes in the middle of the night, I wake up cold and cover myself with blankets.
I saw Dan on the plane to Vegas from SFO! I was too shy to say hi coz you were with your gf 😣😂😂 I do the rice one too and my man's skin is flawlessss LOL
My Japanese mom would sing a lullaby before sleep, ending with a sentence suggesting that if you don't sleep immediately, a man in the night will cut off your ears 😅
I'm Togolese (From West-Africa) and we have a lot of these as well, one of them is "Don't whistle at night or you will attract snakes/ misfortune".
the shaking leg thing my mom told me the same thing but shes also an awesome mom. i went to the doctors, then the doctors said i have ADHD since i was 12 and then she was like, "oh, i didnt know, no wonder why you keep moving ur leg" i laughed so hard
I use a fan like every day of the year when Im asleep and yeah I’m often super dehydrated when I awake or feel quite unwell when I awake. Yes I could just not use the fan but I’m used to it’s white noise and can’t afford a white noise machine. Plus I do prefer to have a the ability to have some sort of cover on while sleeping as it’s comforting.
I LITERALLY CUT MY NAILS LAST NIGHT
My mom says that if your ears are red, that something embarrassing was going to happen to you that day☺️😊
My grandma told me that if i dont clean my plate properly and that rice is dotted around the plate, i'll get a severe case of acne.
I didn't believe her and never cleaned my plate properly.
I have a bad case of acne now that im reached puberty.
I still dont clean my plate well.
in turkish we have "koca karı masalları" which translates old wives tales also:) and cutting nails at night is one of them actually. we now most of that folkloric stuff comes from pre-islam, shamanism era and of course asia. it's nice to see cultural similarities like these having roots from hundreds of years back then
I love Dan's polo shirt with the giant polka dots! Where do I get one?
I always sleep with a fan on but its never on my body, its usually just below my feet just to have noise in an otherwise dead silent room.
My family used to say if your hears "whistles" (meaning you hear a whistle) someone is thinking about you
....I sleep with the fan right beside me and on full blast every night...and I've done this for years 😐 how am I not dead?!
Love your channel :)
Back n elementary, me and my friends love to talk about ghost story and stuff like that. One person says that if we are in a group in someplace with ghosts or at night, then the middle person will be the one who will be take away to die.
in middle school they said every time we tear a page from our books a leaf from a tree falls.
also when you smell flowers, insects travel up your nasal path, crack your skull and chew your brain and eat your eyes out.
yep that was my third grade teacher
I heard that if you clip your finger nails at night, you will get nightmares. I think getting nightmares are better than dying lol.
I point literally three fans at me every night, windows closed and AC on so that I can wear three blankets all summer and be cozy.
#1 Can confirm! Shake legs, am poor! :(
#3 Name one documented case where this has happened!
#5 That "makes sense" to you? Okay then...
The small hands thing cracked me up. In Ndebele culture long fingers = you're lazy, small hands = hardworking
Wow, I grew up in the Caribbean & have also heard a lot of these tales as a child! 🤣
Here in the phil we also believed that if you peep at the opposite gender you get a sty or a "kulatoy" and that you should NEVER point at a tree directly or the spirit in the tree might think you are mocking it and overall curse you...
The fan one is crap. Both of my parents have obsessively slept with a fan since they were teenagers. When I was growing up I had to share a room for awhile and got the fan bug. I can't remember a time without a fan and even use one in the cold winter. I just use more blankets and make a super cozy cocoon. I can't sleep without it.
I love your Channel. growing up I heard from my mother if I'm out after dark a monster would get you
The Stuff You Should Know episode on korean fan death was hilarious.
The issue with the fan death is that the body regulates temperature through muscle twitching and blood flow this is why your fingers and toes feel really cold sometimes. Also, the thyroid gland controls body temperature more than any thing else.
-its because your "hands" small....
- what, no am normal size
Am I the only one who thought that was a sexual joke ? 😂
when I was small my mom used to tell me that she would die if i keep flipping chairs 😂😂😂
My mom used to tell me if I looked outside for to long, I'll see a strange creature outside that will kill me, and that if I played with shadows, they'll come to life and kill me
I love your guys' videos
You earned a sub my Asian brethren, congrats
My parents told me to finish my rice or else every grain of rice would turn into worms in the future. Lol what even
I'm not even Asian and my mom freaks out every time I try to clip my nails at night xD
My family tells me all of these everytime, until now...
I still believe and obey them.
"If you whistle at night, there will be a snake in front of you."
"If you eat too much of the same food you will turn into that food"
"If you brake a mirror, you will have bad luck for 7 years."
i love this channel i am subscribing
My family is not Asian at all, but my grandma used to say all the time that if your ears were burning, someone was talking/gossiping about you.
my dad told me "If you don't finish every grain of rice, you will lose your job when you're older"
in germany, mamas use to say "if you sit to close to the tv, your eyes will become square-formed"
"Don't renovate"
My mom built an entire deck while carrying me.
YOUR SOUL WILL ESCAPE!...or you'll get a fungus
I know one Japanese wives tale where: If you leave your belly button exposed during a thunderstorm, lightning will steal it away. Idk what exactly would happen if lightning stole your belly button, but it's amusing none the less.
I can't sleep without my little fan by my bed. I've needed one for about 20 years (I'm 32). The noise is just a bonus for me
So much love between them! Aww that's true friendship!!
Lots of these things tell me why I'm poor haha!
I was told if I didn't finish my rice I would be poor instead of the other thing ^^ As a result I alwaaaayys finished everything I starteed but now I just don't force myself anymore since it's better for your health ^^
7:25 I remember being 13 practicing my piano lessons and I kept messing it up. I was getting soooo pissed/ frustrated (but I was trying to keep my cool) my ears were hot and the tips of them turned bright red to the point to where my teacher busted out laughing ( I have brown skin and it was still really noticeable)