because the snakes will come after you.

- I grew up with very superstitious people.

- My mom is, like, the Superstition Queen.

- Oh yes, my parents are very superstitious.

- My mom used to tell me that if you took pictures

in groups of three, the person in the middle

would die first.

- My mom told me that all rock music

was the music of the devil,

and if I listened to it that the devil

would eat my soul.

- When I was younger, my mom used to tell me

that if I didn't finish all the food on my plate,

that my wife would be ugly.

And the joke's on you, Mom,

'cause I'm never getting married. (laughs)

- My mom told me that if I stain anything with period blood,

I have to wash it immediately because if a snake smells it,

you can't have kids anymore.

- Growing up, my mom told me that

if we slept in the fetal position,

we wouldn't grow properly.

And so she would come in at night

and if we were in the fetal position,

she would straighten us out, like Dracula style.

- It would always be hot, and we never even

were allowed to use the AC at home,

but then our parents would never allow us

to go to sleep with the fan on,

so we would always have to sleep with the fan off,

because they would say that we would die in our sleep.

- My parents told me from a very young age

that if I cut my nails at night,

then I would not be able to be there for them

when they were about to pass away.

- My mom told me, growing up,

that if you stuck your chopsticks in your bowl of rice,

and it stood there and you left it there,

then someone would die.

So I never, even to this day, I don't even do that.

- My mom said never to go thrift-shopping

because someone dead could have worn the clothes before,

and so you would kind of absorb their bad luck.

- I didn't want to believe the superstitions growing up,

but my mom was so convincing

that I ended up believing all of them.

- I felt like they were all true.

- I was skeptical when I was a kid,

but I also didn't wanna risk it.

- What if they were real, I don't know, you don't know.

- The superstitions that are inconvenient,

I don't believe in.

- I think that now they've just become habits for me.

- Now I've developed maybe my own

set of superstitions.

- I don't think I'm a superstitious person

until something weird happens

and then I'm superstitious.

- I get that there's great prices at thrift stores,

but to this day I will avoid thrift stores

because someone might have died

wearing those old clothes,

or there could be diseases.