Each of us are aware of different folklore or old stories from our old folks. Some stories of which includes tales and myths including fairy tales and legends. What I’m going to share to you however are somewhat related to health which are common folk belief that has been passed on from generation to generation. This is extremely popular during the old generation but until now there are still a lot of people both young and old who believe in these folk beliefs by heart.

The following are folk belief written by Dr. Henry L. Yu published in Sunstar Daily Newspaper dated Jully 17, 2008

- Sleeping with wet hair at night will make you blind
- You will suffer appendicitis if you jump after eating most especially guava or tomatoes (seeds)
- Reading in the dark will damage your eyes
- If you cut your nails at night your parent will die
- When your febrile and you take a bath it will worsen
- You will have tonsillitis if you eat too much sweet
- Eating different kinds of fruits at one time will cause diarrhea
- Sleeping right away when your stomach is full will lead to pancreatitis
- You will get pneumonia if you use an electric fan to cool your sweaty back
- If you hang your underwear in open air at night, the witch will get it
- You will get tetanus infection if you step on a rusty iron nail
- Eating to much fish will bring worms in your stomach
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We can perhaps never tell how this folk belief came about. It could be because of coincidence or due to other factors. But now that we have properly understand the situation and medical sciences have made amazing discoveries for the past few generations, this has made our folk belief a thing of the past.

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