10 NIGERIAN SUPERSTITIONS YOU DON'T KNOW!

Just a fun chat about interesting Nigerian Superstitions! please tell me about superstitions you know about and if you believe any of them. If you are not subscribed join the family by clicking bit.ly/1mq1DGq and let's be friends on Instagram / sisi_yemmie . If you miss me during the week, you will find me on my blog www.sisiyemmie.com
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I'm a Nigerian Food and Lifestyle Blogger documenting bits of every other day in my life with my son, Tito and husband Bobo.

[@atijetv1441]

SisiYemmie, I can't tell you how much your vidoes have helped me. You're funny, witty and so reall. I'm currently in Culinary School, and last term I got the chance to do a Nigerian Menu, your recipe videos were so helpful (we all know how some Nigerian recipes are very much based on intuition and it can be hard to find fill prood recipes written down)! One of my international friends found it so funny that we call Catfish Pepper soup "Point and Kill" and he learnt it from watching your videos. Honestly, you are representing. You're so honest and decent, your trust in God shines through and you manage to share enough info without it being too much information. You're an inspiration o, keep on doing what you're doing! Even my 11 year old brother knows that if he wants to watch KZbin with me, its SisiYemmie all the way. My Mum is always like you and this your Sisi. God bless!

[@nickystyles3878]

You know a boat took us in the Caribbean away from the motherland....but the minute you said itchy palm I knew you were going to say money coming....it's amazing.

[@luvingg]

Nicky Styles In America too lol.

[@kimica5617]

Hey I'm from US -Tennessee. Here are five superstition's I have heard growing up. 1.If you see a red bird company is coming to your house. 2. If you see a white owl it is a sign of good luck. 3.If you earlobe is burning someone is talking about you. 4.Never put your purse on the floor or you will be broke, 5. If you have a dream about fishes someone or you maybe pregnant.

[@savvyfeminist4700]

Kimica Burton yep about the fishes

[@cecilialouise7870]

I think most of these superstitions were created to teach us lessons and also to prevent us from doing certain things when we're children. I'm from Ghana and for example there was this superstition they used to say "if you sing whilst bathing your mother will die" and obviously as a child you wouldn't want your mother to die and that would scare you. they basically used to say that because if you're singing while bathing the lather from the soap can go in your mouth, and because soap contains chemicals that aint good of you.

[@osayandebeatrice2220]

1. As a child, when your teeth broke, run round your building seven times and throw the teeth on the zinc, if not the teeth would not grow back. 2. The white bird they call "Leke leke", when its flying, sing to it "Leke Leke give me water finger" and white marks will appears on your fingers. 🤣

[@adekunletimilehin5563]

u look beautiful

[@SisiYemmieTV]

Adekunle Timilehin thank you so much!

[@LadyPhenomenal12]

My parents are from the Caribbean and my mom always said itchy palms mean money is coming. I've observed and think it is true. Another one, if you bite your tongue/side of the inside of your mouth, someone is talking bad about you. Not sure if it's true but it always comes to my mind. I say it to friends when it happens to them. Lastly, a woman should never put her purse on the floor. Money will not stay in her pocketbook. I don't know if this is true but I stay away from putting my purse on any floor. I bought purse hooks to hang it on the side of tables or other items that I can hang it, lol.

[@amishmoussa3528]

LadyPhenomenalREF i am from Kenya, definately all of this is what we were told i tend to believe some of them😆😆😆...We Africans are the same all over

[@ipsobond21]

In Ghana, it is said that ghost/spirits are going to the market when it’s raining and the sun is shining at the same time. Another one I remember is putting chicken poo on a bite. It is said that the person who bit you will have rotten teeth the next day!!

[@gayle2020]

Many of these superstitions are common In the U.S. also. Not as much as in previous years but I have heard some of them. As a black woman, descendant of slaves, raised in NYC, I have heard of the itchy palms and money, broken mirror, the black cat, and its funny you mention the whistling. My mother, who grew up in the south, use to hate for me to whistle around the house. She would say "you know what happens to a hen that crows?? It DIES. Don't whistle" Some of the ones you mentioned was funny: the broom and impotence, eating in the dark, and the eyelash. The eyelash I would have tried as a kid though 😉😀 😁 Btw, what shade of lipstick are you wearing. Its a beautiful red

[@alicia4002]

Newly subscribed! One love from Brooklyn NY 💜

[@Mstees1]

As a child if you eat fish eyes you get dumb in school! I think that was fabricated by parents who love eating fish heads and didnt want to share....lol. Told my kids the same superstition when they were little and went further to tell them they had to hop and spin 3 times to counter the reaction. Was soooo cute watching them do it while I tried to keep a straight face 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@e.desireeassemian7179]

Hi Sisi, very nice video. I am from Cote d'Ivoire and we have most of the same superstitions you discussed in my culture as well except the one about the broom, eyelash and witch in the market. I personally think that if you truly believe in superstitions that is when you give it power to realize itself

[@ganiyatg.kennedy3661]

I remember living in Nigeria when I was little and I use to cut my eyes lash and a stand of my hair and put it in my parents shoes and when they wear that shoe they always forget to beat me it worked

[@swtgalb47]

Aaron& Gazie. Lol😂😂 it Walk for me for only 24 hrs

[@worshipandhands]

Kole werk oooo School closed and instead of me to go home, i went to pluck "ebelebor" with my friends. After I realised that i had spent so much time, panic set in and then i remembered the eyelashes trick, i felt so happy that i would get home before my mum but it was short lived. My mom came home even earlier that day. The beating my mother gave me that day 😣😣, in fact i don't want to talk about it. All my body pepper me tire..mstcheww eyelashes, the false hope giver

[@ejayscorner3921]

My mum once said if you hear a cat crying at night it means death is near . Hella creepy I know 😭

[@preciousagboghoroma1039]

Ejays_ Corner 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@WhatMummyLoves]

If your feet is scratching you that means you will travel. This works o!!

[@cynthiav.1453]

WHAT MUMMY LOVES ,you're right this works.

[@SisiYemmieTV]

WHAT MUMMY LOVES please can my legs start scratching me now lol

[@victoriadauda5568]

Buy Ridsect lizard repellent. It won't kill the gecko but prevent it from clinging to any surface. Get your husband or anyone who's not scared to pick it up and take outside. The gecko won't come in again bcos of the spray.

[@mfonmichael9494]

Sisi yemmie the glow is real...we need this look asap...🔥🔥🔥

[@GenesisFoodTV]

When your left hand ✋is itching, it's money coming in. But when it's right hand, it's spending.

[@deboraharase7702]

Lol when I was younger we were told that if an eye lash falls you should make a wish and blow it in the air... IT WORKED!!! not all the time but sometimes I'd make a wish and in less then a week it will come to pass 🙆🏽

[@nuwill-rising6222]

Hello, Wonderful Lady.... A few that I grew up with: If you dream of fish, someone is pregnant. If you place your pocketbook on the floor, your money will decrease, if your eye is twitching someone will make you angry, if your ear is ringing, someone is talking about you, if your nose is itching, someone will visit your home, if you put a hat on your bed, you will have bad luck, if you run out of salt, you will have bad luck, if someone sweeps your feet while sweeping the floor, you will experience bad luck. If someone opens an umbrella in your home, they will have bad luck. Oh, I almost forgot this one, if a white bird lands on our window seal, news of death is coming. There're many more, I've merely provided a few. Love you sis, keep up the great work you are doing.

[@anjieog.4541]

the story that if you wave your hand in the sky when you see those annoying white birds with long legs, that you would get white marks on your nails.

[@Graciousl]

lol..Cheke-leke. Till this day, i still have those white nail discoloration. Not sure if the came from that superstition.

[@toluoluleye7774]

Hi sisi. I love your hair. Looking good

[@gumimtetwa428]

Love your hair and make up 😍😍❤️❤️ I’m from Zimbabwe and some people believe in the palm thing. Owls and black cats are connected to witch’s ( superstitious things)

[@tehilaohms]

Brings back childhood memories. You're looking really good by the way.

[@jainaboujallow2768]

Hi sisi Even in my country in The Gambia when your palm is itching they will say money is coming lol. N the 3rd one too about the pregnancy lol .

[@aliao1134]

Love it! My mom also say the same about itching palm superstition and I'm American. Let the money come!

[@akinlosotulaide4242]

You are always on point sisi yemmie! 😍😍😍😍👍👍👍

[@obianujuikeaka9947]

Sis you look good!!

[@nanaaliu5537]

Hitting by brown, how u go take find out 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😁😂SisiYemmie no go kill me..

[@WhatMummyLoves]

Haha!! Owo is coming if you scratch your palms mehn! Enjoyed the video

[@crazyfangirl2797]

She asked have u seen a black cat. I own one 😂🤣😂

[@janefrances6655]

😂😂😂😂 I heard when I was in primary school, "if u want the teacher to stop flogging u, put a broomstick under your armpits then you will faint" 😂😂

[@loverofmysoul8742]

I was born in the Caribbean, so itching hand one is common. Two others I remember - when your ear is itching, someone is talking about you, in a gossipy way and if a broom passes across a single woman's feet as someone is sweeping she won't get married. I believe these things as much as I believe horoscopes, not at all.

[@WalkWithZomiks]

I enjoyed this video so much. I can relate to some of what you said like when you hit your leg on something that something bad will happen...lol I find myself believing that. Growing up, I was told not to sweep and throw away the dirt at night because I will be throwing away my success. Just sweep and put leave the dirt in one corner and take care of it the next day...lol another one is if all of a sudden you hear your name being called and no one around you called you. That means the spirit in your in your village working extra hard to get you...lol someone near you have to call you to cancel that. I have heard my name and I have forced people to call me so that I can answer to cancel whatever my village people are doing...lol I was also told that pregnant people should not make fun of little people (dwarfs) they can curse you and your child will be like them. Choi! I can't deal with that one. I try not to believe in superstitions but it's hard. Instead I use prayers to cover myself because nothing pass God, abi?

[@Only1Sosa.]

Well 🤔Tito is definatly a Fine Fine Boy 😉

[@Melanin_Move]

So3a Yes he really is. I'm telling you🙌

[@chibugovincent4666]

So Aunty Sisi, who crossed your legs😉

[@SisiYemmieTV]

So3a ha ha ha thank you+

[@SisiYemmieTV]

PAMELA CHIBUGO 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Only1Sosa.]

PAMELA CHIBUGO Right L😂L

[@precious2806]

Hair and make-up on fleek 😍👌🏾✨

[@mickeymina2368]

thanks for doing my homework

[@sekyiwab8322]

“In fact stop whistling “ 😂😂😂

[@dammydays]

That crossing leg one, has different meanings😂😂

[@cindylongwani2278]

Looking good

[@Nafissall7]

It think these superstitions are west African i am from Senegal and i grew up hearing 7 out of the one you listed

[@ellaonwuegbu]

I love your hair Sisi you're glowing❤

[@omoteleola]

You look amazing..😘😘😘😘

[@chefbella9977]

who remembered bush baby and lady koi koi superstitions lol. i remember when i was told shouting someones name in the night can invite spirits.

[@maria_ezeh]

You look so beautiful with this hair sis 😙😙😙

[@royalissue]

When I was pregnant my sister-in-law told me that if I am craving something and I don’t get it, be careful not to scratch any part of my body or the baby will get a mark in the same place. Well, i was craving dragon fruit the whole time and it was not always available. I’m not superstitious so I didn’t even care if I scratched anywhere. My husband was keeping track and warning me every time. Fast forward, I had twins and one came out with brown and greenish birth marks in every place I scratched! They eventually faded, but I couldn’t believe it! He’s from Jamaica 🇯🇲

[@IniMc]

Lol the superstition they told me about if you kill wall geckos ...is that you’ll wet the bed at night 😂😂😂🙆🏻‍♀️🙆🏻‍♀️ Rip to Superstitions!!!

[@ms.t6051]

The black cat bit got me cracking up so hard 🤣🤣🤣

[@peculiarcreations6877]

Didn't even know u were referring to omo onile as wall geko here was I thinking u said wall deco lol. Use to hate it but grandma told us not to kill it.

[@cositapreciosa8]

From Canada. We have the same ones about black cat and itchy palm = money coming. Love your videos. Blessings

[@ttmula1100]

Hey sisi yemmie,lovely to see you looking cute as ever.

[@e.desireeassemian7179]

About the wall Geiko, I am really scared of them too. Find a way to get rid of them because if they fall in the food, it is highly poisonous and life threatening.

[@brightbest9279]

Wow am early today....team sisiyemme

[@SimplyAmalia]

Omg!! You look so beautiful

[@stephaniek.344]

Ah beautiful Sisi. I've heard of most of those superstitions.

[@ezenweluonyinye9504]

To chase wall gecko mix salt and garlic together and apply it in every corner in your house.

[@angiep.4362]

Many of these are found in the Caribbean as well 🤗

[@ngumabi]

The itchy palm is also a superstition in Cameroon. Another one which shows money coming is a bee 🐝 following you. We also believe that if you sweep the floor in the night then you will sweep your luck out. If you also throw the peelings of beans or groundnuts you want to plant on the road and many people walk on it, then the crops will do well. The list is long and I can identify with some of the ones you mentioned. Some of these superstitions are really funny.

[@mims4619]

Your black cat story is funny lol!

[@lifewithbugo5126]

LMAO these things sound so funny now but I actually believed most of them when I was younger

[@TheLizzyO]

You look wonderful. I've heard almost all of these. I think the money and palm itching one is the only thing I've chosen to believe lol.

[@seuncarter]

Hahaha.. The one of hitting your foot on a stone. One time in secondary school, boarding house I was going for socials late at night and was alone as my friends left before me, I hit my left foot on a stone just as I stepped out of the hostel gate, I got so scared and so many thoughts came to my head. Few minutes later I was in bed, no more socials that night I could't risk it. The one about looking down in the market, heard they would be walking on their heads and will knock the person and the prison will go mad.. hahaha, till date I don't look down in the market oo. Never taking the risk. And there was this one when a tooth falls off when we are little, you have to put it on a roof, if not a lizard could find it and it wouldn't grow back... and do you mean to tell me when the sun is shining and rain falling at the same time, a lion or elephant isn't giving birth?? Embarrassingly, I still believe that till date.

[@krystelbankole9467]

😂😂😂 we have the same ones in Benin..

[@mariamatchamo745]

oh yes to the one with the parents trick. when i was younger i tried it ones...and mine was putting a piece of charcoal on my dad's shoe and he did forget to punish me lol. so i don't know

[@itsjenny8797]

Or if you wear your clothes the wrong way around money is coming 😂😂

[@TheSamiat.Olabisi]

the market own is real ooo cus i heard it on lean on me

[@oyindamoladamilola]

It’s interesting how I knew about all the stuffs you mentioned even though I grew up in a different part of Nigeria. I actually still believe most of it. The foot thing though, that’s classic, if I am going for a job interview and struck my left foot on anything, am going back home. Period.

[@olsnetwork]

HER VIDEOS R SO SOOTHING. LOOL

[@AkinOladipo]

Ok Sisi yemmie about the wall geko, Name it and turn it into a house pet lol

[@purnelpeter8928]

Akin Oladipo lol I had one in my room for a whole year. It refused to get out so believe it or not I named it “the boss” lol

[@ChristBella]

Notification squad. Where y'all at. Hihihihi. I can relate. From Cameroon and trust me, when your right eye is ticking, something good is going to happen to u. I can relate to almost all the superstition u listed

[@roselinetambe]

Christ Bella hey babe!! Think I know u from saker baptist college??? Can relate to all of them as well!

[@mercydaray]

U look gorgeous sisiyemmie,mine is wen my left palm itches me,am going to receive a lot of money bur wen my right palm itches me,it's the other way round,am going to loose a lot of money..Lol and I believe in it a lot.

[@NelosHalo]

right eye twitching means dry eyes o. LOL

[@PPPP2003]

twitching eyes in Nigeria means you are going to see someone you haven't seen in a while!

[@SisiYemmieTV]

Christ Bella Wow! We have so many similarities

[@ireneifereohia8525]

Hahaha I can relate to all of them. The last one used to work for me back then. Another one is if you mistakenly wear your dress/shirt inside out, you are going to get money that week😃

[@peculiarcreations6877]

Just admiring the make up Hehe.. Wat about putting a thread on baby hair to stop hiccups. Omd that one works it's weird lol I heard crossing over ppl leg will not let u to have a baby so u literally have to cross the leg over lol 😂

[@ptounidowu3438]

Put egg shells around the place you'd normally see the geckos. They'd think its a predator and run away themselves.

[@thediegosfamily7692]

Lolz remember my childhood,all what you say i know about them,you even forgot some,like when you dream snake is following you then it’s a sign you’re pregnant so many more and i really believe in some of them,nice topic 👌🏾

[@13mdawg]

you are glowing

[@blackgirlshorthair]

When its raining and sun is shining in Jamaica we say "the devil and his wife are fighting". If a green lizard jumps on you then you will become pregnant. If you wash your eyes with rice water you will see ghosts. Pregnant women should not go to the beach because they make the seas rough. Dont bend to pick up coins because your children will become beggars. Yes if your hand middle scratch you that means money - Konshens , a dancehall artiste, also has a very popular song about that "mi hand miggle a scratch me". So many more!

[@mariamatchamo745]

hehe yes to the palm itch!...where is came from gambia, we believed in it oh

[@KingTowmeey]

LOL. every time under my foot itches I believe its a sign that I'm going to travel soon. To be honest, its always accurate.

[@TheNigerianGurl]

Sisi you look so super pretty 💕💕❤. I heard that if you cut cloves of garlic and put them in corners of the house, it repels reptiles. Ive never tried it tho lool.

[@kamilab2033]

Nigerian Gurl i have tried it and it worked,a neighbour told me abt it.i put garlic and salt in mini ketchup containers and put them around all the windows in my house and i havent seen any ghecko since then.

[@enoiseau80]

I am from haiti and we have some of the same ones,the itchy palm! ,hitting the foot!, the owl ! Whistling at night !😯😯😯😯(MIND BLOWN). AS for the broom what's different is they say you'll get as skinny as the broom so to prevent that you have to bite it 3 times😂😂 If u mop a man's foot by accident he's going to be impotent ....if it's raining while the sun is shining guess what.???? The devil is beating his wife 🤣🤣.. If u point at a rainbow and insert your finger into a gallon i'll get stuck. If u bite your tongue somebody is talking bad about you....You look dashing😍 very nice Video Sisi Yemie.

[@JAchica11]

In Jamaica, when the rain and the sun occurs together, we say the devil and his wife are fighting.

[@jacquelineowiso3157]

Am from Nairobi, Kenya and that itchy palm for money we have over here, Same to the whistling with similar consequence Annnnd crossing ppl and having babies that look like them

[@olaidesogoye9585]

There is one my mum just told me few days ago. When you are preparing yam porridge you have to add something whether veggies , fish . Prawns etc if not .... if you make a plain yam porridge then evil spirits will eat it with you.

[@osaroboprecious9925]

The last one is true i have done it before and it waork

[@nikkim7671]

This was amusing. Most of these superstitions crossed over on the slave ships. I have heard most of them. My grandmother used to say if your palm was itching money was coming. She would also have a fit if you mistakenly swept her foot with the broom. She said that meant you might go to jail lol

[@dekemidiaries5646]

That eyelash thing worked ooo My secondary school teacher forgot punishing the whole class after crossing over eyelashes on two of the students. I was wowed.

[@brittanyjohnson6019]

Hmmmm....a few of the superstitions African Americans have in common with Nigerians as well....maybe our ancestors from Nigeria and other West African countries continued to pass down the superstitions via oral history and the other ones were forgotten🤷🏾‍♀️. Very interesting video, now I wanna do some research lol

[@PamelaPam]

Heyy Sisi, please i hope you answer... Please what software or app do you use to edit your videos they come out so niiiicceee

[@arikahandy1528]

The Real Mela she made a who video in it already

[@SisiYemmieTV]

I use final cut pro

[@PamelaPam]

haven't seen it yet i guess thanks, I'll go check it out

[@Zestsuli89]

Some of these are also superstitions in South Africa, haha so funny.

[@mercyjulian2493]

u look so good in that hair n ur beautiful

[@toptier6021]

hahahahah yemmiesi u just remind me of my old days .

[@delindawilliams3935]

Since I was a little girl in the Bahamas, I was told about the itchy palm,it worked for me,but lately,no itchy palm,and I still get the money.😄😁😂😂😂 I grew up hearing of the black cat,but never experienced it. *Don't walk under a ladder,it will give bad luck unless you walk back under backwards. Not true * If salt spill,throw some over your shoulder to avoid quarrel and bad luck,not true! There are so many that I've grown up hearing,but as a child of God,the blood of Jesus protects me from such nonsense.

[@joycepearce9628]

ohh, I'm watching from Liberia and it the same in Liberia too.

[@modupeojo9700]

Hi Sisi, I also don't like gecko so I read somewhere that you peel cloves and use salt to mold it and put in different areas of the rooms and the gecko u shall see no more and I tried it and it worked.atleast I have not seen any in months.

[@Sunnyyyy1]

The one about itchy palms work for me till date. My palms itch anytime money is coming in for me.

[@AntoinetteD]

Try to capture the wall gecko in a container and set it free outside. You look amazing by the way.

Sisi Yemmie you are glowing ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🎉🎉🎉

[@TeaTimeWithEyek]

Iya Tito toh fineeeee LOL. These were funny, but even as logical as I am, I still am so superstitious, smh. I recently heard about the looking between your legs at the market and the guy who told us this info said that even if you try it, someone will stop you.

[@bernadettehof5878]

The cry of a cat in the night in your compound means death! I never want to hear it again!

[@oluwajuwongoriola-obafemi3927]

i remember the eye lash own i did try it