10 BELIEFS ON THE LEFT-HANDED

13/10/2016

10 BELIEFS ON THE LEFT-HANDED

On the web zurdo.com collected some of the most widespread beliefs about the world of lefties:

1. For the Norsemen popular superstition says that knowing a lefty on any day of the week, except Tuesday, brings bad luck.

2. India is said to be eaten with the right hand, as good things, according to their beliefs, are made with the right hand.

3. Satan is often portrayed in the Bible as lefty. In the New Testament, Matthew says: "Then he will say to those on his left: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire ...".

4. In Islam everything that comes from the left hand is considered unclean.

5. In the 20s, being left-handed was synonymous with dementia, and in the 60s, was related to dyslexia.

6. A few decades ago, Japan was grounds for divorce a woman to be left-handed. Perhaps that explains that only 2% of the population of this country will use more this right hand.

7. Get up with the left foot is synonymous with bad luck in many cultures.

8. If you left ear itches, is that they are talking bad about you, quite the opposite if you sink right ear.