Fan Death and Other Korean Superstitions

We talk about different Korean superstitions, including some that will get you married, get you dumped, and get you MURDERED! Well, not necessarily murdered, but will get you dead. Make sure you watch this video or else you might die if you're in Korea. Pass it to 10 friends and your true love will call you. Pass it to 20 and your true love will kiss you! Uhh...yep.
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[@seemu2927]

Marina saying 'Almen' Me (British): hmmm it must be how canadians pronounce omen Martina: I'm saying it the British way okaaaaaaaaay

[@seemu2927]

+Syma Ahmed i love you guys

[@dogfreak297]

+Syma Ahmed i died XDXDXD

[@buddyfan1234]

Haha a when I read the title, I though it meant a fan from a kpop group dying xD.

[@viviannguyen4799]

Ikr!!! That the same thing that I thought! Lol

[@orlock20]

I thought it was decapitation by a low hanging ceiling fan over a bed. There is a story that goes with that thought.

[@TheVloggingPhaseJM]

Annie Fan SAME!

[@rebecca072498]

Lol when I saw the title I though fan death was referring to fans as in the people who make up a fandom not literal machines that blow air

[@sssd8712]

same

[@hannahvandehei4735]

Me too.

[@anaislora3154]

Same

[@jessicasebastiao9069]

me too lol

[@KellyBEATO]

I remember this one Filipino superstition regarding to funerals (I'm Canadian Filipino). My mom would tell my brother and me that once we get home from a funeral, we would have to enter the house through the back door so as not to bring the spirit of the deceased we had just seen. As soon as we get in the house, we take off all of our clothes (because apparently the "essence" of the dead were stuck to them while we were in the funeral parlour), and take a shower (again, with the "essence" of the dead). I've never really questioned as to why its like that, but I've never gotten the chance to because funerals occurred rarely with me.

[@emlay3078]

Who else thought that fan death title meant fans dying as in like a kpop fan or a drama fan? Please tell me im not the only one. I feel stupid.

[@davinadex]

No yeah, me too.

[@focus-nct1279]

me three

[@alexlefay]

I thought exactly that because the idea of fans killing people is so ridiculous that it didn't even cross my mind

[@MsJavaWolf]

me five

[@karkinissan]

There must have been a nationwide panic in South Korea on 4/4/2004.

[@death486]

Nissan Karki I was born on that day

[@FranciscaPires]

My cousin was born that day i can't imagine if he went to korea and told that to someone 😂😂

[@JeanPaulBeaubier]

I'm chinese, but the fan death bit actually rang a bell. My mom always tells me not to leave the ceiling fan on when I sleep because it was (and this is a rough translation) "blow my mind silly". As in, I will one day wake up extremely stupid and with my face deformed or something, ahaha.

[@HelenHu0831]

I'm Chinese and my dad said that if I sleep with the fan on, I'll die of hypothermia

[@jibbles3162]

I always grew up not sleeping with ceiling fans on because I was afraid they'd fall in the middle of the night and crush me...

[@silentghost004]

+Kermie Cat oh dear that's brutal XD

[@BrittneyJLWCT]

My grandma and mom told me not to whistle at night because it calls the ghosts and demons. Another one is to not let babies or toddlers, or children look outside the window at night, or they'll see a ghost. And the last one, is to not play hide and seek at night or else you'll see a shadow or figure around the house while you're hiding, or while you're looking. They sound ridiculous, but I still don't whistle at night, and I don't let my little brother play hide and seek at night.

[@AC-ie5fj]

For American Christians babies and toddlers can see angels so that superstition is similar

[@yoonheejung875]

That's exactly what my mum says... are you Singaporean by any chance? :3

[@AC-ie5fj]

Yoonhee Jung es

[@AC-ie5fj]

Yoonhee Jung yes

[@yoonheejung875]

Aerie Collick Haha same! ^^

[@extremelyhappysimmer]

simon is wrong. the center of the tornado IS the calmest.

[@teaandcoffeeM]

+extremelyhappysimmer But tornadoes barely have a center! You must be thinking of a hurricane.

[@GodlyHyo]

Tornados don't really have a center

[@kennylun4696]

+Michael T actually a tornado does have a middle depending on the size of the tornado

[@Lagiacrus1996]

Can't wait to go to Korea and reveal to everybody my birthday is the 4th of April (04/04). I feel like I have chosen the wrong country to move to haha

[@diannag13]

I believe that that is also Lee Hyukjae's (Eunhyuk of Super Junior) birthday as well XD

[@Lagiacrus1996]

:O Ooh it is. Unfortunately my bias in Kyuhyun haha. 1 day off Jungmin's too.

[@diannag13]

Jungmin? From SS501? Sorry, I'm not sure which one you're talking about XD

[@Lagiacrus1996]

Diana G Haha yeah him XD

[@SyaliIshi]

Diana G That's like... Exactly what I thought XDD My poor bias is unlucky XDD

[@iduhvietasian]

My mom once told me ( shes vietnamese ) that if you put a broom over your head then its bad luck, but at that time I misunderstood what she said / heard wrong and immediately put a broom over her head since i thought it was good. . She almost ended up slapping me across the face and yelled at me

[@sosmcs]

Why would someone put a broom over their head?????

[@lovexfleurtje1631]

My mother says that (I'm dutch btw) if you spill salt you will get into a fight and if you spill sugar someone will come to visit you, like in a normal way not a creapy way like "hey I can see you.... I'm comming to get you"

[@mimziexxhwang]

in bulgaria we also have this thing with the shoes but it's not just for high heels but for any shoes and not only for girls. like, if you buy someone shoes, they will leave you. and also, a very funny one - if someone's cleaning with a broom around you and the broom accidentally touches you, you won't get married (refers just to girls). my mum and my grandma always used this so i would get out of their way while cleaning. :D and another weird one - if a cat or a hen jumps over your dead body, you'll turn into a vampire.

[@ellock1998]

An old lady at Barnes and Noble told me and and my cousin that reading just the last page of a book puts a hex on it... we then proceeded to hex all of the childrens books in Barnes and Noble that day.

[@ellock1998]

Isabella Lee No clue... but apparently I cursed all the childrens books

[@ChibiPanda8888]

That's awesome

[@sosmcs]

Good job Simon and Martina, ur video sparked a lot knowledge exchanging.. I am having a blast reading all the different superstitions from different countries 👏👏

[@miumoi183]

So writing someone's name in red pen is seen as like writing someones name in the Death Note. haha

[@LiaAwesomeness]

in the summer i always sleep with the door closed and the fan turned on max. and im still here

[@ChibiPanda8888]

Yeah me too. Never turn it off when summer hits

[@ho3wa]

okay so I have a very very strange superstition from my parents country wich is Cape Verde(isle of Africa) that says if a woman is on her period and washes her hair, she simply dies!!! My mom still think that is true...so if I tell that I'll wash my hair she gets crazy! xD

[@MarcellaMzz]

In Brazil they say the same thing!!! And the same thing goes to standing out in the sun during your period. HAHAHA just crazy

[@ho3wa]

HAHAH é nao é? Se isso fosse verdade já tinha morrido há muito tempo xD

[@ho3wa]

i feel you hahah xD

[@sm9453]

That's interesting - in India, some follow a tradition (it's not quite a superstition) where a girl musttt wash her hair the moment she gets her period! lololol.

[@ho3wa]

sm9453 hahah wow xD

[@starkissed9shadow]

I'm British and I say OH-men :P I'm getting kind of addicted to your videos by the way, they're great!

[@Coco-buns]

Im from the US (Texas to be exact) & I think these are southern supersistions, but one from childhood is that you must hold your breath when driving past a graveyard. another is if the traffic light turns yellow while you are passing through an intersection, you kiss your hand then touch the roof of your car for protection.

[@NotQuiteGingerYet]

+Courtney Benner I'm Texan as well, I never heard the yellow light one! I still do the graveyard thing though, to the extent I'll turn off my car radio as well until I'm past it.

[@aquaarietta]

+Courtney Benner Grew up in Michigan, the graveyard thing was the same there. So I found it awkward when I moved to Florida and my middle school was right next to a church with a graveyard.

[@mialefebvre1512]

Im from canada and its the samee

[@lavahead146]

I live in Texas and have been doing the yellow light thing since I was a kid! I don't believe in it anymore, but it's just this kind of fun habit from my childhood ^-^

[@hmnsdnssx]

Hmm, I'm from Kansas and never heard of those

[@NatWarrior1]

I actually fell asleep while there was a fan blowing and accidently left the door closed. Spoiler alert: I didn't die

[@krisityyy92]

my nana used to say to me that if i sit on the exact corner of a square table I would never get married (I'm Bulgarian)

[@HoMan300]

My a bit same but instead of noting getting married it's people will hate you.

[@Taiji92]

In France there goes a saying that you should never have 13 people dinning together, never walk under a ladder, crossing path with a black cat is bad luck, if you spilt salt on the table you have to throw some behind your back to avoid bad luck, breaking a mirror brings you 7 years of bad luck. well, these are the most commune. But very few people believe in them...

[@flamehour08]

Those are all known in america too lol. Except I've never heard of the 13 people dining.

[@Taiji92]

that's funny cause america is a really religious country, and the "never 13 people dinning together" comes from the number of aspostles and... Judas, trahison, well, you know ....

[@greteltan8386]

flamehour08 lol do u read harry potter? trelawny mentioned it before haha but i never knew that it was an actual superstition! it's really cool haha thanks Taiji92 for sharing!!! i've heard of all of the superstitions except the salt one

[@SersiSays]

I'm pretty sure that someone already said this BUT, in fact the number 4 does sound like the word death. The use of Chinese characters is deeply rooted in the Korean language and the Korean pronunciation of the Chinese character '死(which means death)' is 'Sa'. Which is exactly one of the ways that Koreans say the number four.

[@IshmaelVargas]

Watching this in the future after seeing "Jurassic World" thinking, "So you can run in high heels after all." 😁

[@reglayass2516]

In Russia, if you break a plate or cup or any other piece of china it's considered to be foreshadowing good luck/happiness! Also if you say something that you don't want to happen, you spit over your left shoulder three times (it's kind of the equivalent of knocking on wood). One that I find weird is to not hand over anything through your main doorway, so like if you want to give someone a hat when you're in the house and the person is outside. My favourite one is if you have two people with the same names, you stand in between them and hold their hands and your wish will come true!

[@laissezfairelashlee]

that last one is super cute!

[@juse2852]

That's so funny! During the summer I always have TWO fans on when I'm a sleep.... Every night... And all day long. So.... Have I died years ago and not know it?

[@LovelyLiaWade]

i have been watching simon and martina for the past 8 hours.. i have lots of work to do, lots of cleaning, lots of things which are not going to get done because of these two wonderful people... WORTH IT!!!!

[@MonkeyXTurtle]

Okay I think in Seoul I should have died 21 times by fan death cause we used it every night.. xD

[@lordofdeath932]

I'm Chinese and my parents and relatives says 4 is a bad number while 8 means good luck

[@MagicalDragontamer]

In Denmark, if it rains on your birthday it's supposedly because you've been "bad" during the year and caused the rain. Also if you mention something that you don't want to happen you're supposed to knock under a table and say "7-9-13."

[@Damiemdude]

every night i sleep with a fan on me ....

[@野村夢-s3s]

Me too I swear I nearly shitted my pants wen she said the fan turns into a clown and kills u...

[@Diamondinrouge]

Quite interestingly when I was living in an apartment in Thailand, we had 12A instead of 13 on the elevator (which totally freaked me out I must say)

[@steelytemplar]

Haha. I have seen something similar here in the US, except here, in some buildings, they simply call the 13th floor the 14th floor. It's not so common with newer buildings, though.

[@bluecookiecloud]

where i'm from, there's this superstition where if you throw water behind someone who's leaving, they won't come back. and there's also the fact that your face freezes if you walk from a warm room to a cold room quickly.

[@huskycold]

Interesting! where I'm from they throw water behind someone who's traveling since they believe it will bring them a brighter future! :D

[@amap18]

So, according to korean, I should be dead by now, because all, and I mean, ALL MY FREAKING LIFE, I've slept at night with a fan that blows directly at my face. I live in city hot as hell, well I think hell is cooler, so even when we have airconditioner, we need a fan, oh koreans you made me laugh so hard XD

[@vivianlx]

Im from Singapore! In here we don't give people clocks as gift as it is an another way to tell them to die. We were also told as kids not to point at the moon else we will get a cut at the back of our ears and it'd be super ugly.

[@enicnarfxbella]

simhopp Bribery gifts HAHA! Great idea ;D. But just not a watch of any kind on birthdays.. More of a chinese belief than a Singaporean one though heheheheheh...

[@joycoleen4792]

In Ireland there's this superstition, that if you hear a Banshee cry somebody you know has just died. So the Banshee is this old woman and sightings of her have been people seeing her scrubbing clothes or clutching handkerchief. These reports of people hearing.seeing her are mostly in rural Ireland...I've heard the 'cry' loads of times and I swear it's just the noise of a vixen wanting the boom-boom-jiggity XD

[@amipop1108]

Oh shit. My fan is blowing at me while I sleep in an enclosed room.... :O lol

[@t3r4p1n7]

same.... i sleep on a bed on the floor and my room is small so the fan can only point at me......

[@winter_wolfie25]

Been doing that for 16 years haha lol still alive!

[@ChrisChong1]

my guess is that fan death is related to the fact that Korea used to use coal as a source of heat, and that the carbon monoxide couldn't circulate out properly if there was a fan affecting it..

[@ArmadaAsesino]

***** That's actually an extremely plausible reason.

[@meriyuhh]

Omg Martina, I got that exact same tornado theory from Twister, too! I've always thought that the center of a tornado is the calmest ever since I saw that movie and everyone disagrees with me. As soon as you said that in this video I thought, "Like, in Twister...?" lolol

[@emilywang737]

The red pen thing is in china too because it's suppose to represent the blood of that person. And etc

[@itshysterie]

사 is the way you read the hanja for death (死) in Korean, which is where words like 사망 come from.

[@LoyaFrostwind]

I went on a Korea trip with my taekwondo buddies. In the middle of the night (on our first day), the teacher woke everyone up, knocking on doors loudly and making sure that our windows were open if we were using the electric fan. He said that he fans created ozone and used up our breathable oxygen. He didn't want a bunch of dead students in the morning.

[@TheKittenKnits]

That tornado thing with no wind in the middle happened in Into the Storm too. Hahaha I love Fan Death, I think it's hilarious and loved hearing you guys talk about it!

[@katieaprilmay]

I love watching your videos! I am hoping to visit South Korea and Japan sometime in the near future. I wish there was a KZbin channel like eatyourkimchi for Japan :(

[@hakuorowitsuarunemitea8708]

Katie-May Stenson Check out Rachel & Jun.

[@katieaprilmay]

I actually have been subscribed to them for over 2 years, but I just find that Martina and Simon are really fun and engage their audience with their video content. They also upload regularly whereas some of the major Jvloggers don't and even my favourites have quit KZbin :'( (mimei)

[@hakuorowitsuarunemitea8708]

Mmm. Well, I can't help you with that. Sorry.

[@edinameszaros4903]

+Robrbrgebe mantic Idealist qoû

[@GrantWitherspoon]

Romantic Idealist e

[@ttiffwashere]

I had a Greek teacher in high school who told us about a Greek superstition. If someone came to your house and you didn't want them there, follow them around throwing salt behind them, and they'll leave. Tried it once and it worked, so whatever!

[@Anonymous_Jo]

I live in Australia and if I DON'T sleep with my fan on during all of summer (AC, why u sho expensive?! ) I probably will die! I over heat so easily oh ma gawd!

[@lapobrehp]

Actually, the high heels superstition is about shoes in general. You're supposed not to give them to your beloved ones because they will "run away" 😂

[@minyummm]

In Romania there is this superstition where if you sit at a table's corner you will never get married XD Funny enough, that's my favorite place since a toddler. Everyone in my family kept telling me to not stay there, but only as a joke. Another one is that is you break a mirror you will have bad luck for the next 7 years. Lucky me to break at least 5 of them XD

[@FridaFritters]

In Mexico if you have a pimple on your eye that means that you watched two dogs mating

[@BellaJean22]

When my one cousin got married, they deliberately gave it to the brides older brother and his girlfriend. Because they really wanted him to get married next xD. They actually just got married earlier this month!

[@luhanade]

and here i am.. getting ready to sleep.. with a fan turned on... and all of my doors closed and locked.

[@nqusyairah]

Now I might experience fan death since I'm in my closed bedroom with a fan blowing directly at me. Nope, not dead yet.

[@MsKatiekittykat]

The heels thing is the same in China, but with all shoes and not just boyfriend/girlfriend relationships. It's a bit rude to even give a friend shoes for the same reasons. Also it is in bad taste to give someone a clock.

[@donniedon4398]

I don't remember which country but I've heard of the clock thing as well somewhere else. Like you're telling someone they never know the time

[@robertwhitten265]

How's any of these superstitions anymore ridiculous than praying? If you go to church once a week, give 10 % of your hard earned money to some already rich guy, and pray to an invisible dude in the sky, you'll be richly rewarded. Yeah, that doesn't sound silly.

[@cherrykidz]

that's not superstitious, that's a belief. just because you're not a believer doesn't mean all religions are superstitious.

[@robertwhitten265]

+cherrykidz What! you just answered your own question, superstition is a belief without any evidence, just like a religion. They are followed by stupid and those who are uneducated in higher level science.

[@BunanTsokolatte]

My grandma's Filipina and she had a couple superstitions I observed growing up: 1) When you enter a new house, salt and rice should be the first things to enter for good luck. 2) Don't sleep with your hair wet or you'll go blind. 3) For New Year's, it's good luck to have 21 (I think? I can't remember the exact number) different fruits in a bowl. 4) For New Year's, my grandparents also throw coins all around the house for good luck and to banish bad spirits. 5) She never liked me opening up umbrellas in the house 'cause she told me centipedes would fall out of it onto me. When I asked her where she heard it too, she just said "Idk, that's what my mom told me" like she didn't even really believe it. xD

[@YF--]

-Sleeps with a fan blowing directly on me every night-

[@EricLeePiano]

Why doesn't Simon's sister know he has a popular youtube channel!?

[@havoClinK]

I remember first hearing about the fan death from my Korean friends in high school and thinking it was the most ridiculous thing ever lol

[@ADpopstargirl]

I'm a Malaysian but I lived overseas for a while when I was younger and came back when I started highschool so that made me very aware of all the superstitions and habits Malaysians have that I didnt notice when I was younger like: To cancel off something bad someone/you said, that you don't want to happen e.g. "We're gonna fail this test" etc. etc. someone will be like "quick, touch wood" and then everyone just touches something wooden. It's usually the person who said the bad thing that has to touch wood. -but if there is no wood around you can touch your head as a substitute. The next one is suuuuper weird. This one has to do with malay culture that has many ghost related superstitions and the religion Islam. They believe that when you have your period, if you do not wash the blood off your pad before disposing it, the dirty blood will attract bad genies and satans to the house and they will feed off your dirty period blood. At first my family thought this legit was a religion thing but i was like "WTF NO WAAYY I dont believe that shit" so I never followed it but they would scold me but then my aunty did some extensive research on the it and it turns out it was just a superstition. so YAY ME

[@melisad591]

I guess Koreans wouldn't like the 4th of July😂

[@zachj61]

+Melisa D I dont see why they would ;) I certainly have no interest in it, from Australia

[@maggiepadron4320]

+zjohnfour blank well youre not from the U.S. :p

[@focus-nct1279]

neither are korean people...?

[@taeso0o]

lmao i have my fan on all the time when i'm sleeping.

[@CookiesTriedToEatMe]

Umm to the person who said there's no 4th of July in Korea(I pray you already know this but...( The 4th of July is an American thing so no body but us has a 4th of July...

[@CookiesTriedToEatMe]

why would every country have an independence day? - also ***** lol im sorry I thought you were being serious (Idk it just seemed like really heartfelt, not really, i just cant read sarcasm anymore)

[@CookiesTriedToEatMe]

..ok? that sounded kinda rude - but thanks for the correction anyway...

[@kova1282]

So +thegrudgesensation, what you're trying to say is that other countries have their own version of the 4th of July that isn't necessarily on the 4th of July and isn't a holiday representing that country's independence?

[@kova1282]

Oh. LOL now I feel stupid. :)

[@hannahvandehei4735]

Okay. I find this hilarious. As a person who can't fall asleep without noise, I always have a fan on and pointed at me when I go to bed.

[@adrydoblav]

also in Italy is lucky if rains at your wedding day!

[@Haylem]

2014 so many deaths.

[@boopers7296]

gosh dangit... my lucky number is 4... this is awkward

[@AlishaArlene]

+enchantedstone1232 aj Same here. :-( lol **sigh**

[@samcheezyzamora8256]

I love, love that little end credit type of song. Very relaxing and soothing .

[@hpptstu]

In sigapore idk y or how ppl think tat if a bird poops on u its good luck..

[@ArmadaAsesino]

Felicia Ting Haha, I have heard this here in Australia too.

[@hpptstu]

Yup its pretty much everywhere but its just becus birds have bad/no bladder.. ELLIPSIS​

[@minhwanlover00]

One superstition in my family is if you sleep right after eating, you get fatter-- but I do it so idk Yolo

[@spiesvsidiots]

No, it not superstition. I've heard people lost weight after that cut off eating after 7 pm.

[@minhwanlover00]

spiesvsidiots Well, I dunno. Asian superstitions are......Asian-y--?? Idk

[@purpleghost106]

spiesvsidiots It might as well be a superstition since it's based on pseudoscience (meaning in this case that it twists what the actual science literature says and tries to make it seem like it's actually saying what they want it to) this is often used to sell diet books and programs. Exercise and eating right are important of course, but pairing two truths and a lie doesn't make the lie any more true. Eating at night doesn't *make* you fat anymore than not eating at night will *make* you skinny. Your entire lifestyle contributes.

[@spiesvsidiots]

PurpleGhost I was talking about someone I know who it happened to. I'm not saying it from experience or a guide.

[@FrenchRivieraStyle]

Hey Simon and Martina ! I'm sick today so I do a rerun medley of your episodes ! Thanks for keeping me company :) I am French by the way, and in France, when it rains at a wedding we have a saying that says "Mariage pluvieux, mariage heureux !" which literally means "Rainy wedding, happy marriage"

[@SilverNight72]

One superstition from my dad's side of the family (Filipino) is that when you take a picture you can't three people in the picture or else the third person in the picture will die. Always was awkward since I come of a family of 3! XD

[@AyyQueRicooo]

Puerto Ricans have Tuesday the 13th (ooh spoopy) thought with Americanization we include Friday the 13th as well. Just as well, no black cats, don't go under ladders, and brooms hold mighty powers, like upside down behind a door to get rid of unwelcomed guests, and some cases leaving you single for a while. For the new year, we throw a bucket of water out the door, letting out the old and welcoming the new year with a splash! Also, like the Spanish, eat 12 grapes! If that purse touches the floor you'll lose money, but to fix that, if your palms itch, don't scratch because money is coming your way. Take a shower in water of the first rainfall of May. My favorites though have to be La Llorona (the drowning ghost woman) is looking for more children to take at every river, every fall, every lake, etc., the chupacabra is getting all your livestock, and el Cucuy (the Latino version of the boogieman). And maybe it's just my family being optimistic, but if you are peed on (ex: changing baby sibling) or occasionally get poop on you (though /definitely/ no one encourages it), it is said to be good luck.

[@OksuzSena]

Oh and there's somewhat of a superstition (I believe in it ok?) in Turkey where the nazar boncu (search it up on google to see how it looks) is said to take away a person's jealousy (toward someone/some people) the moment they look at it, before anything bad happens to that person. Because of this, you can find the nazar boncu everywhere in Turkey, like restaurants, malls, and especially in jewelry.

[@xixfullmetalxix]

About 4: Chinese characters (Hanzi) were originally used in Korean called Hanja. As far as I know it's mostly in Chinese characters used in Japanese (Kanji), which has two readings for 四 (On reading (Chinese origin): Shi, Kun reading (Japanese origin): Yon). It is associated with the verb 死ぬ (shi nu (to die)). Therefore, it's more common to say 'yon'.

[@alexdam3741]

In the Netherlands we say that if you spill sugar, you will get an unexpected visitor. If you don't want this to happen, all you have to do is quickly throw some salt over your left shoulder.

[@shmavictor]

that eye tornado is true. in Cancun we have huracaines and in 1988 that's what killed a lot of people, when they saw the calm they thought it had finished but they were in the eye and they where caught by the back part of the huracaine

[@OfficialKimLin]

My parents always tell me never to rattle my keys or whistle in the house as it will call on ghosts. Also there is a superstition that if you sneeze twice in a row or if your ears randomly start to get really hot, it means someone is talking about you. ~ anyways, I sleep with my fan on facing me every night and i'm still alive yayy xD

[@TheKatimation]

Speaking of bird pooping on you... when I was in 3rd Grade, I think the day after I got my passing result on EOG's, a bird pooped on my shoulder on my way to my bus stop and my mom was with me. She saw it fell on me and said, "It's a sign of blessing." I've seen birds poop on other people while the other person says it's a sign of blessing. I don't know where this is originally from but I think it's just a saying to make yourself positive from a negative effect. :P I'd like to think I'm being blessed.

[@Frainist99]

We have the red pen superstition in my country too,my mum believes it but most my teachers have the habit of writing our name with any pen they have so I never let my mum see any of those papers cuz she will freak out

[@TheicMoggy]

in the Philippines New Years Edition: open your windows at midnight to welcome good luck have all types of round fruit, apples don't count. good luck. jump at midnight, it will make you taller. these are all dumb to me

[@ClaraBell3452]

I've noticed in KDramas that a mirror or a framed picture will often fall off a table and break right before a character gets hurt (usually by car accident lol). "Oh, My Venus" has a really good example. A picture literally hops off the table and break before a big car wreck.

[@isndrde]

I don't know why but when Martina says "Son of a---" I laughed so hard XD And then I kept laughing like a lunatic cause I kept replaying that part

[@theRealCrazyOne]

My friend would freak out about fan death when we lived together. We're almost 30 and she hasn't lived in Korea since she was in middle school...she still still believes it.

[@matcha_]

Lol, were they talking about Hoya buying shoes in Infinite's Man In Love music video? I found that so funny cuz he was randomly trying them on too. Actually, I found the entire video funny, but the song and choreography were great. Love Infinite and Love Simon and Martina. And Spudgy. ♥♥♥

[@PyrgusMalvae]

I lived in Japan and they have the same "fan death" superstition. What was unbelievable to me was that it's so widely believed that packaging for fans has a warning on it like "do not leave fan on for extended periods of time, prolonged exposure to fan can be harmful." Like, even the packaging itself doesn't seem to know how or why a fan could harm you, but they put it on there just in case.

[@JonathanEdwardLee]

LOL. I'm from indonesia, and actually we do have some sort of that "fan death" superstitions, and it's actually worse here. it's applied to AC too, and in cars you shouldn't make the AC fan blow your face or your face will cram and you will start dying. LOL

[@똥똥17]

Hello, I am a man from South Korea.My parents are now telling us to reserve a fan and grow up.Thank you for this video to unlock our curiosity and leave us with proof.

[@Tamaki742]

BU- BUT AIRCON WORKS THE SAME WAY AS FANS. =A= As in they blow air and we only use them in closed spaces, duh. In Indonesia, my mom always told me never to wear your clothes backwards (it happen sometimes though cos some of my tees are plain coloured and lost their labels), because it means you swore on your parents' death. Also you have to be inside the house fro 6PM because ghosts wander around during that time, never wear green clothing's at the Northern Beach or Nyai Roro Kidul will get you, if you smell frangipanis that means kuntilanak (a ghost of a woman who died giving birth) is around, if you shave your brows you can see tuyuls (ghost of miscarried babies), and there are also places where you have to honk your car horns thrice before passing it to ask permission from the ghosts inhabiting it. A lot of superstitions are connected to the supernatural here... Oh, and the bouquet throwing thing is also a superstition here, but there's no time limit. Just that whoever catches it might be getting married next.

[@greteltan8386]

Interesting! The frangipani one is Pontianak for my country

[@Tamaki742]

Gretel Tan Yep

[@justangela1684]

I was always told that it is unlucky for it to rain on your wedding.

[@ec2172]

Lol that was a great video as always! So I wanted to say that I'm Irish and idk if other countries have these superstitions as well, but people say that if a picture falls off a wall, or a cockerel caws in the night or if you hear a banshee screaming..someone will die. Just wanted to share them cause I find them quite creepy...XD

[@TheFreakyVibes]

If you go through somebody's legs your growth will be stunted.

[@ilovedeactivatedaccounts]

For Mexico and much of Central America - one thing each generation is told "DON'T OPEN THAT UMBRELLA INSIDE THE HOUSE!! Allegedly it brings the family and misfortune regarding health and finances, and even death. In Lithuania - you are NEVER supposed to hand someone a pair of scissors - you have to place the scissors down and the other person then can use them. If not done, its believed both individuals will have many injuries to come.

[@Raeleen]

XD i thought you meant a kpop artist couldn't be along in a room with a fan (their own fan -a person) because they'd die XD I could imagine why they'd fear that lolololol omg laughing so hard

[@jaslyns4661]

I think in Russia you can't whistle in a house because it's meant to invite in burglars, and you cant sleep with your bed opposite the door because that's how the undertakers position dead bodies.

[@juliaoleshkevich8327]

Russia: -sitting at the table's corner means you will never get married (works only for girls) - accidentally dropping the fork means that soon you may have some guests in you house If a person wants something to happen really badly and you say that it will never happen then it means you took this person's fortune and possibility of something happening. So you need to either knock on things made of wood or to spit over your left shoulder.

[@nursenikkia]

I love you guys!!! The high heels part tho? Seriously have you seen those girls running in heels??? I certainly have! Even hiking in the freaking mountains in heels.... SMH!!!

[@jennteal5265]

I know this is really old and I don't know if you both still read comments, but regarding "the eye of the tornado" it's a real thing. There was a young woman who made a call in the middle of the Joplin, MO tornado not realizing that *it wasn't over yet* and I live in Iowa and when the EF5 went through New Hartford in 2008, a friend of mine was in their basement under a table, while it was passing over, there was like 15-20 seconds of calm where she literally flung her kids to the other side of the basement so they could hide under the stairs because they had been under a table and it wasn't holding up. I just thought you'd appreciate this if you still see it - Martina - you were right ;)

[@morglovesminecraft]

I am (maybe) going to sleep in a room with a closed door and closed windows, with a fan on high and a guinea pig stealing all mah air... Well, I'm gonna die folks..

[@VeroniqueParks]

The number 4 in ancient greek culture meant justice and perfection. I had never heard of the fan death, though. Now I want to try it ahahahah