Urban Myths of Bangladesh

I personally think myth is a believe, a thought. Some information about someone or something which no one actually knows whether its true or not, does it exist ? Its like a mystery.

In the urban places of Bangladesh, we also heard about a lot of myths which are superstition oriented. Here are five of those myths.

• If someone sneeze just before starting a new work, its going to harm that work. If he sneezes more than once then its going to harm even more. So basically sneezing before starting a work is unlucky.

• In the urban places we usually see a bird call 'Shalik'. The myth is, if we see a odd number of Shalik it means you'll have a bad day and in case of even number of Shalik we believe its a good day coming.

• Cutting finger nail after the Magrib's Prayer is very unlucky for the person. Something bad will happen to him/her. I've seen people believe that myth pretty strongly.

• New years first day. Urban people love to believe that the first day of the year is going to reflect the whole 365 days. Which means if you pass your first day badly, the entire year is not going to be lucky for him/her and vise versa. So people try die hard to pass their first day without causing any trouble.

• In the Muslim religion we've heard that if someone has a pet dog in his house or anywhere, the Angels or the Holy Spirit will never show up in that place. This place will no longer be sacred for the Messenger of God we know as 'Feresta'. Because dogs are not friendly to them.

That was my selected urban myths of Bangladesh.

The last myth is a bit controversial because the information is taken from our Holy Prophets Book.