As old as these myths

Hello good people!

How is it going over there? Hope all is good?. Tuesday was a good one for me because I had all the time to to engage here, even in the midst of busy schedule. I started reading in the Morning when I woke up and I read through to about 6:50am, and I decided to take my bathe and prepare for work. I didn't faced the issue of early morning fetching of water because I fetched last night and stored in some buckets.

You know that feeling when you're stepping out and you've cleared almost half of the pending notification.💪 I was feeling fulfilled and having the feeling that the day is gonna be a good day. Is it only me that feels that way?

I read @Kushyzee article and it really got cracked up with the amazing throwbacks he featured. It's all about those myths we believed when we were very tender. He mentioned alot of them such as drinking coconut water causes someone to be a dullard. Maybe that's where the "coconut" head" was originated from. Now you know Lol 🤣.

All he highlighted really got me and I replied with;

Wanna read Kushyzee's own, just click

I want to add mine, somehow different from the ones he highlighted. Maybe what I have are the ones you've not heard of, just maybe. Let's go🤸.

PLANTING WITH EMPTY STOMACH

Do we have farmers here? I don't mean the 'backyard' farmers, I mean the people with large hectares of farm with agricultural plants such as yams, maize, melon, tomatoes etc.

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We were made to believe that when a farmer goes to planting with an empty stomach, the end product of the plant would be poor. This was a very serious case in my community especially in my house. My dad would never allow us to enter his farm without eating at home first. And you know what this means for us that go to farm early in the morning, that means my junior siblings would have to wake up very early, as early as 6:00am to prepare food for everyone to eat before setting to the farm.

How true is this fact? Is it really true? Well, that was what they made us to believe but I never took my time to check if it's really true or not. I violated this rule oftentimes because there were days we went to farm with anger and never took any food.

Maybe it's true that's why we sometimes have low produce 😂🤣

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WHEN YOU HAVE A CUT, SUCK THE BLOOD.

I'm laughing already at this...🤣🤣. They made us to believe that anytime we have a cut from knife or razor and blooding is gushing out, we should suck the blood. I mean, we should suck it with our mouth, sallow it down to stomach TO RETURN THE BLOOD BACK TO THE BLOOD STREAM😂.

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I was fooled on this one because I had a lot this experience with blood taste. Looking at me like I'm a vampire?🧟

Yes, I know how blood tastes from this childish experience.

But looking at it in the other way, maybe it's because I'm research about it... You know, whatsoever we take in digests and circulate within the system.

Where are the medical personnels? Brief us on this.🤗

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IF YOU WANT TO SEE A SPIRIT...

I've read series of articles and mythical beliefs on this aspect, a lot of patterns on how to see spirits/ghost. Although a lot of people confirmed that some of these mystical beliefs are true.

Okay, we were told that the easiest way to see a spirit is to go to the market square at night, bend down with the head touching the kneel and look back in between the wide open legs and there you go, a spirit would be staring at you a little from a distance

You want to try out? Lol🤣

We believed this because of tales they told us and also with the fact that our market square was a few distance from the community cemetery. Maybe it's true. But I've never tried it once, that's because it's rare to be seen in that ghost zone market at that odd hour. But I'll try it soonest, anytime I travel home again.

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BUSH MANGO AND GARRI(Cassava flake)

Kushyzee mentioned a bit of this, about taking mango and Coke. But this one is the bush mango for people that know it.

We were told that taking this bush mango and garri kills instantly, that the contents react like magic with the body system and here by terminating the intestines in our stomach.

I believed this so much untill I tried it out one day, I expected instant movie-like death but nothing happened Lol😂

For those of you that know the bush mango, it's botanical name is IRVINGIA GABONENSIS. The exorcap and and mesocarp is succulent and edible, while the seed is used to soup.

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Thank you for reading this piece.

5th March 2022