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according to my German grandmother (Oma), putting shoes on the table means a family member will die. I really feel for the massive losses suffered by that poster.
yeah, mine did too. germans think the weirdest shit man. after all, the way to tell kids of my generation to sit still at the table and eat up their meals was to tell them that some psychotic demon dude with giant scissors will come and gleefully cut all your fingers off if you don't, and that in that case they can't help you. among other things lol.
another bullshit story that's passed around in germany is that if everytime you light a cig on a candle someone will drown at sea.
i have fairly germanic heritage, names and such, but all of that was lost in assimilation, with my great grandparents, and their parents, so it’s cool to read these.
also wouldn’t put shoes on the table. but the type of person that recognizes their seasonal shoe rotation, and organizes them as such, and then photo shoots them arranged just so, probably has pretty clean shoes. i think.