in this video I'm going to introduce you
to some of the weirdest superstitions in
Japan today is going to be a little bit
different than our regular vlog of me
calling around Tokyo I wanted to share
some cool superstitions that I've come
across in Japan maybe not a lot of
people know about now you get to hear
about it alright let's start
13 oh well is that hear that thunder
hide your bellybutton is because in
Japan if you don't hide your bellybutton
but god of thunder is going to take it
away actually interesting case this girl
paid to get her bellybutton removed
maybe next time this would be a cheaper
way to get so anyways one of the reason
why Japanese people believe this because
when the Thunder would come it would
rain and when it rained it was very cold
so they would tell the kids cover your
stomachs because their immune systems
are not as good to scare them with a
thunder of God
okay great parenting and also another
reason back in the day people were
kimonos and these kimonos they would
have an Obi which is kind of like a belt
around your waist and people would store
their wallets in the Obi or in the belt
and the wallet
obviously there's coins and one guy who
was walking around Thunder came
lightning struck hit his Obi burnt his
freaking bellybutton off because there
were coins inside of it not this show I
could just make it this stuff up but
well barely this is what they say well
anyone have any snake skin around
because if you do
keeping snake skin in your wallet make
you wealthy before you guys kill any
snakes and peel the skin off
let's stop it's just the dead skin that
they should so you don't have to kill
anything now in Japan there are seven
gods one of the gods is called Ben 10
and it's actually a female she is the
god of music entertainment water and
wealth she has an assistant this
assistant was a snake
so people believe you had a piece of
skin from a snake you would be in favor
of the wealth God Benton I don't know
people would appreciate that as a gift
so I'll try it for my cuz next
actually she tried that already so yes
it didn't work
anyways if you guys want to purchase
death make skin check out the
description below and I'll be selling
them for $100 apiece it'll make me rich
11 this japanese ginger called meals a'
makes you forget things or simply just
makes you stupid
ah i don't understand why they believe
these things okay there are two reason
goes all the way back to buddha buddha
had an apprentice
his name was city bundle he was so
stupid he always forgets things all the
time and sometimes he even forgets his
own name so he had to wear a nameplate
around his neck nameplate in japanese
now it's called in the food buzz back in
the day yoga is what they called the
nameplate when he died a little root
popped up and it was ginger they named
this ginger yoga after his name plate
ever since then yoga has been associated
to this really stupid apprentice that
couldn't remember his name
can you remember name so you gotta put a
name plate on what a dumb apprentice I
wouldn't even hire how to fire that guy
long time of Buddha yo this guy can't
even remember his name go get another
apprentice your friggin Buddha ten
facing your pillow north is bad luck the
reason why is because that's how they
very dead people if you look back into
the history of this Buddha is the first
one slept facing his fellow north so
that's why people started burying dead
people facing north eventually through
time they thought it was bad luck to
sleep facing north because that's all
dead people were buried are you guys
facing north when you sleep not they
believe that if you hiccup a hundred
times you're going to die
the reason they believe this is back in
the day someone will get sick they
didn't know like what were the cause was
one of the reasons is picked up being a
hundred times they just said hey if you
have a hundred hiccups around there
you're going to die but that's just
because they don't have any medicine
and they really didn't know what they
were talking about could have been like
gonorrhea syphilis could have been a
common cold could have been something
else who knows ate a black cat crossing
in front of you is bad luck now back in
the day they actually believe that black
cats were good luck what they actually
meant was if they saw a cat leaving they
thought that was bad luck
so what once was good is now bad bad
luck good luck you can make your own
luck in life seven having a floating
East em in your teacup is actually good
luck let me explain this tea fiasco
thing you got these shop on what they do
at the beginning of the season is they
pick the leaves from the tea trees they
take this and they have their first
batch it was known during that time that
the first batch was the most delicious
and tasty batch of tea leaves but then
you had a second third you'd have all of
these secondary batches these batches
weren't as good tea shops had trouble
selling all of the secondary batches
they spread a rumor they told all of the
customers it's good luck to have stems
in your teeth the second device has had
more tea stems compared to the first
batch so that they can sell all the ones
that no one wanted to buy after that
they are in the money sounds like
marketing
I'm not buying tea from you sell me
stems fix seeing a morning spider is
actually good luck so whatever you do
don't kill it which we want to kill a
spider anyway so cute there are several
regions back in the day these spiders
represented customers coming in but on
the flip side seeing a nice spider-man
thieves coming in the night another
reason why mourning spiders represents
good luck in Japan is because when
spiders come out usually come out on a
sunny day so if you see a spider it's
going to be a sunny day sunny day means
fun day then one more did you know that
yang Yang theories yin yang yin yang the
yin yang theory is having light and dark
is a balance and so the morning which is
light and you have a dark spider which
creates a healthy balance
yin and yang there's actually more
reason the West siders but I'm kind of
getting tired of this one so let's get
the next left to fly a - huh - is that
really how they sneeze is it bad if you
sneeze someone's talking about here
hopefully it's good thing but ice needs
a lot and sometimes when I sneeze I
sneeze like in like machine gun kind of
scenes like 3 or 4 a - a - a - a - so
maybe like that's for comments for food
comments back in the day people believed
that if you started to sneeze if you're
cursed and where do you get curses none
other than your friends and family or
the people we don't like you very much
therefore when you sneeze those people
we're talking behind your back what
happens if you had a really bad cold man
people back in the day I had allergies
must've thought people were talking a
lot of about it before do you have
warm hands a person with cold hands has
a warm heart sounds like my doctor it
was actually like no reasoning for this
people just believe this in Japan
interesting enough in 2008 yield did a
study and found that people with warm
hands were actually warm-hearted in kind
my hands are warm they're really warm to
read when you're super nervous and you
have to give a presentation in front of
a lot of people this is what they tell
you do to help calm your nerves you have
to write a Chinese character or person
on your palm and swallow it three times
when you had acted in kabuki theaters
they would get nervous on stage and what
they would say is you got to drink the
people so taking all them in saying that
you can like overcome the audience so I
guess it's like similar to in Western
culture when I say just pretend everyone
is naked
apparently that makes you calm as well -
eating seaweed will give you more hair
that's just on the top of your head
orders are like all over your body so
couldn't find a lot about this one
there's actually no scientific proof
that it actually helps you grow more
hair but I think they just like believe
it because it's like dark and it's fake
looks kind of like hair seaweeds does
contain lots of minerals vitamins and
protein which effectively helps maintain
helping hair but it's not known to help
grow more
it's good to know before you like start
downing a whole bunch of series just to
cover that bald spot where is that
Salt's fun one and one of the most weird
superstitions that Japanese people who
is so if you don't hide your thumbs and
you see a funeral car your parents are
going to die early or you're gonna have
bad luck the internal car race fingers
oh no you can see them what happens if
you don't like your parents it dates
back to the textual period people
believed that even though the body was
already dead the soul of the body was
still floating around when in the
funeral car and the soul could actually
enter a living person's body through the
thumbs so basically between your thumb
and your thumbnail souls could actually
enter in copy of thumbs when you see a
funeral car you don't want any dead
souls thing is what would they do
because I have a soul with the souls
just like hanging out together or was
like my soul lead into someone else's
body
I really hope you enjoyed the breakdown
of superstitions that people believe in
Japan if you have any comments about any
of these superstitions if you believe
them or you think I'm just full of BS
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