Jinx

Here are some of Japanese strange jinxes.

• If a tea stalk is floating upright in your cup of tea, something good will happen to you.
  
• If you cut your fingernails at night, you will not be able to see your parents when they die.
  
• If you whistle at night, a snake will crawl out to you.
  
• If you lie down soon after you eat, you will become a cow.
  
• If you find a spider at morning, do not kill it because it is a good sign.
  
• If you pour piss on an earthworm, your penis will swell up.
  
• Never sleep with your head directed towards North. Only dead bodies can be done so.
  
• Do not start wearing your new shoes in the afternoon.
  
• When you eat seasonal food at the first of the season, you should face to East and laugh.
  
• If you put a piece of snake skin into your wallet, you will become rich.
  
• When your milk tooth come out, if it was a lower tooth, throw it over the roof. If it was an upper tooth, throw it beneath the veranda. Then your next tooth will be strong.
  
• When you get nervous in front of people, you should write the letter 'HITO' (human) on your palm and drink the letter through your mouth.