Things shouldn’t do during the ghost month

As the ghost month , here are some of the things you should avoid doing during this lunar month:

• Don’t repair your house because the ghosts are apparently looking to mess up things that are being fixed or repaired.
• Don’t move into a new house.
• Don’t enter into new relationships.
• Avoid breaking up with your current significant other as it may lead to suicidal thoughts or attempts.
• Couples should avoid getting married in this month.
• Don’t drive late at night to avoid accidents and sightings of ghosts as they may disturb you.
• Don’t getting into arguments as they may lead to more serious situations.
• Don’t looking at the mirror at night.
• Stay away from visiting hospitals.
• Don’t wandering the streets at night; ghosts are looking for a spare body to possess or sometimes a soul to replace theirs so they can come back to the world of the living.
• Don’t whistling at night and making noise such as knocking at night.
• When someone taps on your shoulder once, do not look back as it may be a trick for spirits to possess you.
• Don’t turn your head when you hear someone call your name at night; instead, you should turn your whole body around.
• Stay away from water activities.
• Don’t walk alongside the wall.
• Don’t hang wet clothes outside at midnight.
• Don’t use a lot of black or red as it is said to attract hungry spirits.
• Stay calm when surprised, don’t be too emotional.
• Do not step on or kick the offerings left on the roadside.
• Don’t obsess over ghosts and ghouls and don’t go looking for them as they may find you instead.
• Don’t open an umbrella inside your house.
• Don’t buying puppets, sculptures or dolls.
• Don’t say the word “ghost”.
• Don’t standing under trees or bus stops at night.
• And most importantly don’t tell a Chinese or Taiwanese person that the Ghost Festival beliefs are superstitious.