3. If you throw away bread, you will suffer misfortune or experience bad luck. If you sneeze whatever you said last or thought is true hence they say "istina" which means true.

4. If you step on your somebody else’s toes by accident, you have to let the other person step on your shoe. If it rains on someone's wedding, it means they'll be wealthy.

5. Don't demonstrate somebody else's wound or surgery on yourself, it's a bad luck.

6. If you are not married - don't sit at the corner of the table, otherwise you won't marry for another 7 years.

7. If your nose itches, it means you'll be drinking soon.

8. If the day starts not really good then they expect some “Unpleasant surprises” during the whole day.

9. Sitting between two people with the same name is good luck – you may make a wish and it will come true.

10. If you see a woman with empty water buckets coming up to you, run away! If she crosses the road before you, it will bring you bad luck! Superstitions in Belarus

11. If you have the hiccups, they say it means that somebody is thinking about you. To stop the hiccups, you should figure out who it is that's thinking about you and the hiccups will stop. Superstitions in Belarus

12. If your ears or cheeks are hot, someone is thinking or talking about you (usually speaking ill).

13. Superstitions in Belarus Birds that land on a windowsill, tap on the window, or fly into it are considered a very bad omen (often of death). Yellow flowers mean separation. But they also mean wealth and prosperity.

14. Superstitions in Belarus A group of two or more people should not walk on different sides of a tree. They should all keep to one side or the other.

15. Superstitions in Belarus It is believed that it’s good fortune to break dishes by chance. If the groom drops the wedding ring while putting it on his wife, this is a bad omen.

16. Superstitions in Belarus It is considered bad luck to celebrate someone's birthday before the date, but acceptable to recognize it after the birthday has arrived.

17. Superstitions in Belarus The way you meet New Year is how the whole year will be for you, i.e. if you were alone when the new year started, you'll be lonely for the whole year.

18. SUPERSTITIONS IN BELARUS If you whistle indoors, you will frighten the guardian angels who protect your home, and as a result you will have money problems.

19. Superstitions in Belarus  If someone finds an eyelash on someone he or she will sometimes let the person blow it away and make a wish.  If someone is not recognized when seen or heard, he or she will be rich. So if someone calls you on the phone and you don't recognize them you can cheer them up by telling them they'll be rich.

20. Superstitions in Belarus  If you find a bay leaf in your soup (commonly Borshch) while eating, it means you'll get mail from someone.  Don’t drink without a toast, only at Easter or funerals can you drink without a toast.

21. Superstitions in Belarus  When someone is talking about something very undesirable or bad, the listener should say in Russian " Типун тебе на язык !", which is generally translated as "Curse that tongue of yours!". This expression is not meant to be offensive at all but is rather used as a spell for prevention of evil and bad luck.

22. Superstitions in Belarus  If your right hand itches, you're going to get money soon. It sometimes means you're going to greet someone. If your left hand itches, you're going to give someone money.  Never step over another person, especially children, because it will prevent the person from growing old. If you step over someone, you should step over that person again to undo the evil.

23. Superstitions in Belarus Moving to the new house one must first let a cat go in first to assure harmony in the household.