Spinoff: Strange Wives Tales

[MarieB]

I have a "friend" who claimed that my hair wouldn't grow unless I cut it. This is the same person who would take an inch off every time I allowed her to "trim", so she no longer touches my hair. I have been doing just fine with dusting and S&D on my own, which I told her was what I was doing, and now every time she sees me, she comments on how thick and healthy my hair looks...I'm like, yeah, I know...so stay the hell away from it....

Also, my family is from the Caribbean, and while they do not openly believe in voodoo (or obeah), they have said a few things about not leaving shed or cut hair out in the open, but never gone into detail about why you shouldn't.

Also, it's bad luck to light a cigarette with a candle (yes, I know, smoking is bad, I'm just saying...).

And don't open an umbrella indoors.

 

[Trini_Chutney]

Cut your hair during the 3/4 moon for length.

 

[10WordzOrLess]

I got one kinda hair related...

"Don't shave up under your arms...It steals your power."

I was like..."Yes Ma'am.",

In my mind thinking "YOU can walk around with Duck Booty Pits if you want too"

 

[teacherjess]

^^^^ OMG.... that is really something! Birds aren't that smart to be tracking a chick down CSI style to get her hair! Plus... you know what? Lemme just stop. I'll go crazy trying to list the 37 flaws in logic behind that little theory!

LMAO

Ok, I must not have had enough conversations with my elders b/c I have never heard of 90% of these. Only ones I used to hear from my mom and grandmother are the usual:

1. dirt makes your hair grow
2. greasing your scalp and brushing hair regularly stimulates scalp & grows hair
3. braids grow your hair (ok, this one's kinda true due to the low manipulation thing)
4. cutting hair makes it grow faster
5. washing too often washes out all the relaxer

ETA: Also, if your scalp itches that means your hair is growing

 

[MarieB]

I got one kinda hair related...

"Don't shave up under your arms...It steals your power."

I was like..."Yes Ma'am.",

In my mind thinking "YOU can walk around with Duck Booty Pits if you want too"

...ROFLMAO at "Duck Pooty Pits"! Thanks for my best laugh of the day!

 

[LoveLiLi]

If a man massages/greases/scratches your scalp, your hair will grow.

ETA: If you have a short haircut and want to grow it out, have ver18: often! I have no idea what this one is about!!!

Wow, I know a couple of chicks who should have hair to their ankles by now according to this theory.

But nope....still b a l d h e a d e d.

 

[tailormade84]

Two people in your head and the youngest one will die. I didn't realize that I still kinda believed that until I went to an African shop to get my hair braided. I was looking like, I'm glad I'm in my 30's.

LOL!!!

 

[dachsies_rule!]

I have a "friend" who claimed that my hair wouldn't grow unless I cut it. This is the same person who would take an inch off every time I allowed her to "trim", so she no longer touches my hair. I have been doing just fine with dusting and S&D on my own, which I told her was what I was doing, and now every time she sees me, she comments on how thick and healthy my hair looks...I'm like, yeah, I know...so stay the hell away from it....

Also, my family is from the Caribbean, and while they do not openly believe in voodoo (or obeah), they have said a few things about not leaving shed or cut hair out in the open, but never gone into detail about why you shouldn't.

Also, it's bad luck to light a cigarette with a candle (yes, I know, smoking is bad, I'm just saying...).

And don't open an umbrella indoors.

I heard that from an old roommate. Her and her mom would flush their hair down the toilet. They said if someone got your hair they could put a curse on you!

 

[SND411]

Sometimes if I accidently pluck a hair from my scalp in public like a store (I have hand-in-fro disease) I will keep the strand(s) in my coat and not throw it in a trash can or floor so that if a crime is committed there, they will not have any DNA evidence to accuse me of anything. Weird, I know...

 

[30something]

If you get your hair wet right after a relaxer, the relaxed hair will revert.. esp the edges.

DO NOT AT ALL COST wash your hair under one week of getting a relaxer.

If you get corn rows or box braids done real tight it will force the hair to grow faster

White people products can revert your hair. Example: Head and shoulders.

White people products will make your hair fall out.