A few days ago while at a friend’s house, we were speaking to her grandmother and the subject of folklore (or rather, superstitions) came up. In an attempt to scare my friend’s nephew into coming inside since it was cold and overcast, her grandmother told him to come inside the house or a “churail” would come and take him away. I was curious, what are some superstitions (particularly the “churail” one) and what is their basis (as I’m not familiar)?
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My khala told us that if we put perfume before going to bed then churial jur/lag/chipk jae gi. My cousin had a skin problem and we were told that it's because of using performe at night.
Sometimes us kids started reading kalma and all the dua's really loud when we thought there was a churail around in the neighbourhood.
I think main reason is only to scare little kids so they listen to elders. The only famous one I can recall is
Bil batauri nasaa'n chauri
Adi kauri adi mithi
If there is one, who you gonna call?
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they are just superstitions...no reality in them whatsoever. in old days, if elders didn't want you to do certain thing, they would come up with ridiculous superstitions. don't take them seriously. when you hear one such claims, just laugh it off. don't lose sleep on this.
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^I'm not a believer of superstitions myself. I was just curious as I've never heard some of these before. :)
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^I'm not a believer of superstitions myself :). I was just curious as some of these as I've never heard them before.
i undersatand...there are million others that i haven't heard of either and i think i've heard a billion already. lol
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^Care to share some of them? ;)
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^Care to share some of them? ;)
ok...here you go:
*1. using a friend's comb will break your friendship *[this was to stop transfer of lice from friend's head]
2. never sweep the floor after dark [this was to eliminate accidentally sweeping away something valuable...like a small piece of jewelry.
3. eating watermelon after dinner with rice will cause cholera [this was to stop kids from eating too much so parents didn't have to take them to a doctor in the middle of the night]
lol...there are 900 million 99 thousand 9 hundred ninety nine others but i can't list them all. if i do, i might need 10 other janams [reincarnations] :D
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Nice thread...
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I heard my nani talk about sweeping the floors at night thing....apparently "it sweeps the barkat/rozi/money" away lol.
-Stretching while eating: when we were kids and at dining table if we ever used to stretch, we were told your food is now gone to a dog's stomach. I guess that's one way to enforce manners.
-cracking knuckles/joints: We were told as kids that it is "nahoosat" to do that. I wonder what was the reason behind it.
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- Sitting under tree after Maghrib… Genie may bother you…
- Unclipped hair.. Genie may flirt you…
He can become your lover…
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saanp 100saal ke baad her roop badal sakta hai.. Iksha dhari Nagin
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^^ These have all been interesting to read about :p
I have a question though and no one's mentioned it, what exactly is a churail? From what my friend's grandmother told her nephew, I gathered it was some type of witch but didn't think to ask.
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^^ These have all been interesting to read about :p
I have a question though and no one's mentioned it, what exactly is a churail? From what my friend's grandmother told her nephew, I gathered it was some type of witch but didn't think to ask.
witch...
GS walon... Have you seen witches in real?
Long hair attracts jinns, sitting under a tree in the evening attracts jinns/churails.
Also, a black cat is a witch in disguise lol ph and if you hear like the jingling/chiming of an anklet it means there's a witch around. My cousins told me these. Idk if they were trying to mess with me or what...but yeah.
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^^ These have all been interesting to read about :p
I have a question though and no one's mentioned it, what exactly is a churail? From what my friend's grandmother told her nephew, I gathered it was some type of witch but didn't think to ask.
You might have heard about Inquisition by Christian church, where they burnt many old women in suspicion of witch. Same concept was some how crept in desi society that an old lady not having good features was considered as chuRail. Word ChuRail seems to derive from ChooRa (bad-shakl)
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Did you hear “Kaali billi rasta katay” ?
