the superstitions in afghan culture

[torkham]

I want to know about the superstitions, the supernatural, that exist in our culture.

Part of my family is from Nuristan, from Landai Seen, Barg-e-Matal area. There are many accounts of supernatural and tabboos:

Fairies [paris] - living on high mountains and would take/lure lost people and shepherds
Spirits [Jinns] - living in remote uninhabited areas, on trees, near water

Shamans [Diyars in Kom dialect] - these people used to carry out exorcisms (over three generations back when this place was Kafiristan)

These accounts I have heard when sitting together in evenings.

In the Pashtun side of my family there are plenty of stories of nazar, and ways of averting it (by burning black peppar or by using surma)
There are mullas who exorcise
There are plenty of events where (mostly) women/girls get possessed and then the mullas do some exorcise
there are people who cast spells

Please tell me what stories have you heard.

[graveyardofempires]

ive heard there is a certain ranje(surma) when you put it on you can see jins.

[salam]

They say When a bee comes and buzzzzzzzzzzz around you it means some guests are coming.

[Digital Malang]

why are there more jinns in Afghanistan than other countries?

Is it because of all the brutalities that happened there like when the Hazaras would kill hundreds of innocent people and throw them a single well.

[graveyardofempires]

beacause there is alot of uninhabited places in Afghanistan.

jins doesnt mean ghosts like casper.

[graveyardofempires]

we used to hear about kohi Qaf (Q mountain) which i guess refers to Caucases mountain in chechnya etc that there were fairies and giants.

[Gulalai]

a superstition i heard one was when you get that high pitch sound in your ear, in the left ear it means someone is talking bad about you and in the right ear it means someone is talking good about you :P

[Haris]

As a kid I was told in Kabul there are old scary women (boodeys) who kidnap children that walk alone and I can't remember properly but I think they either eat them or chop them up and sell their body parts...:S

[salam]

When I was child our elders used to say "nan da ghazni shpa da, chap sha oda sha"
What does it mean ?

[graveyardofempires]

a superstition i heard one was when you get that high pitch sound in your ear, in the left ear it means someone is talking bad about you and in the right ear it means someone is talking good about you :P

i heard if you hear that you should say Kalima shahadad cuz this is the sound of the hell.

[salam]

When the fire roars they say someone is talking about us.

[graveyardofempires]

As a kid I was told in Kabul there are old scary women (boodeys) who kidnap children that walk alone and I can't remember properly but I think they either eat them or chop them up and sell their body parts...:S

heard the same but about some crazy women called sheeshakey.

[salam]

kala che pa laas ke khaarakh kigi, it means money is coming lol.

[graveyardofempires]

as kids we were told if you walk infront of someone who is praying you will become a monkey.

[salam]

as kids we were told if you walk infront of someone who is praying you will become a monkey.

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