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Don't split a pole.

throw salt over your shoulder for good luck.

These are countless idioms that black folks share across the globe.

Why are we like this?

This is two minute black history.

What you didn't learn in school. They might be called superstition, but these old sayings are rooted in our history.

Even across time and space, they have kept our cultures united.

A bird flying in the house means death. This one has been passed down as part of oral history

among our people, most notably in the culture of Low Country South Carolina.

Don't sweep over someone's feet.

That is a big no-no if someone hopes to get married or stay out of jail. In the Caribbean, especially

Jamaica, it's a lesson taught from childhood. No one wants that kind of ill luck. Itching palms is a particular superstition that can be

traced back to Kenya. It's believed that wealth is coming if your right palm is itchy but if it's the left palm then money is going out.

Fishy dreams.

Now dream interpretation has deep roots in many African cultures.

It's no surprise that there's a symbolic correlation between images and meanings in dreams.

One old wife's tale says that if someone dreams of fish, they or someone close to them is pregnant. Your mama ever say no hats on the bed cultures across the diaspora of this one. Notably a hat on the bed in voodoo

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