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Indonesia: when and where to use umbrellas and brooms
Do not sweep at night It is probably one of the most well-known Indonesian superstitions out there. The superstition says that sweeping at night would make it difficult to attract luck as it symbolizes sweeping our luck and good fortune away. There are however some reasonable explanations to this belief.
In the past, Indonesians did not have nice ceramic or wood flooring in their homes. The floors of most Indonesian homes were bare, compacted earth. So to sweep house required a hard broomstick where the bristles were made of palm leaf ribs, making sweeping with these brooms a very noisy affair and sure to annoy the household and your neighbours. Don’t open an umbrella indoor This superstition believes that if you open an umbrella indoor, someone in the house will die soon. Especially if the umbrella is black, as black umbrellas are associated with funerals. But really, what is the purpose of opening an umbrella indoor? An umbrella is supposed to be used outside to shield you from rain or the sun. Opening an umbrella indoors would take up space in your room and would be inconvenient for people inside your house to move around or even cause an accident, so as with many superstitions, there is folk wisdom and common sense often at the heart of these beliefs.
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