*   Some consider cleaning the home after guests leave to be a bad omen.

*   To have one shoe come upon the other when removing them.

*   Considering your right eye twitching to be a sign of impending calamity.

*   To consider it a bad sign for the government if Eid falls on Friday.

*   To think the crying of a cat to be bad luck, and the same for the crying of a dog at night.

*  Shopkeepers believe it a bad omen for a customer to leave without purchasing anything.

*   If someone dies after a member of their family visits a newly wedded bride, or if a woman only gives birth to daughters.

*   A woman who is pregnant not being allowed near someone who has passed away, as some believe this will adversely affect the child.

*   A woman who becomes a widow early in her life being considered unlucky.

*   Using scissors without cutting anything being a cause of arguments in the home.

*   To assume using someone else’s comb will cause dispute between you and them.

*   Hitting an empty bowl or spoon against one another.

*   Thinking the eldest son of a household will be struck by lightning if he goes outside in a thunderstorm.

*   A child’s teeth growing incorrectly being a bad sign for maternal relatives.