It is considered unlucky to lie down when the sun is setting; to sleep with the head towards the west or with the hands between the thighs; to clasp one's hands across the head or to eat with the head resting on a hand; to strike the plate with the fingers after taking a meal; to give to another's hand worthless things like chunam or charcoal without keeping them on something, and for a female to have a hairy person.
It is thought auspicious to eat facing eastwards, to gaze at the full moon and then at the face of a kind relative or a wealthy friend; to have a girl as the eldest in the family; to have a cavity between the upper front teeth: and if a male to have a hairy body.
If a person yawns loud the crop of seven of his fields will be destroyed; a child's yawn indicates that it is becoming capable of taking a larger quantity of food.
If a person bathes on a Friday it is bad for his sons, if on a Tuesday for himself; if he laughs immoderately he will soon have an occasion to cry; if he allows another's leg to be taken over him he will be stunted in his growth; if he passes under another's arm he will cause the latter to get a boil under the armpit, which can be averted by his returning the same way.
If a person eats standing, or tramples a jak fruit with one foot only he will get elephantiasis; if he eats walking about he will have to beg his bread; if he gazes at the moon and finds its reflection round his own shadow his end is near.
If the second toe of a female be longer than the big toe she will master her husband; if the left eye of a male throbs, it portends grief, the right pleasure--of a female it is the reverse.
If the eyebrows of a woman meet she will outlive her husband; if of a man he will be a widower; if a male eats burnt rice his beard will grow on one side only; if the tongue frequently touches where a tooth has fallen the new tooth will come out projecting; if an eye tooth be extracted it will cause blindness.
A sneeze from the right nostril signifies that good is being spoken of the person, from the left ill; when an infant sneezes a stander by says "ayi-bôvan" (long life to you).
If a child cuts its upper front teeth first, it portends evil to its parents; a child sucks its toe when it has drunk seven pots of milk.