Why Residents Live by Ancient Rules Designed to Prevent Bad Fortune and Annoying Neighbors

Parañaque Local Superstitions: The Curse of the Unlucky Color

Parañaque is a city where modern life coexists uneasily with a pervasive network of ancient, bizarre, and highly specific local superstitions. These beliefs dictate everything from where you park your car to the acceptable colors for a baby’s baptismal dress. The rules are not written down, but everyone knows them, and failure to comply risks not just bad fortune, but intense social judgment. The most common anxiety revolves around **The Fear of the Unlucky Color Blue**, which must be avoided at all major life events.

It’s believed that wearing blue, or decorating a room in that shade, attracts misfortune—specifically, financial ruin and aggressive appliance failure. Weddings are planned meticulously to exclude any shade of sapphire or navy, turning the hunt for decorations into a complicated color-theory crisis. If a car breaks down, the first question asked by the neighbors is always, “Was it blue?” If the answer is yes, the problem is immediately identified not as engine trouble, but as a deliberate cosmic sabotage caused by the paint job. People genuinely believe that the best way to prevent a plumbing leak is not maintenance, but avoiding the color blue in the bathroom towels.

The Rules of the Doorway and the Guest

Other key Parañaque superstitions dictate social behavior. Never cut your nails after dark, or your parents will immediately lose all their money. Never sweep dust out the door at night, or you are sweeping away all your good luck. The most demanding rule, however, concerns the **Unannounced Guest**. If a guest shows up unexpectedly, you must immediately sprinkle salt on the doorstep after they leave, or their bad luck—which must be the reason they showed up uninvited—will contaminate your house forever. This ritual has made many residents slightly nervous about spontaneous social calls.

These superstitions are simply coping mechanisms—ways to inject control into a life defined by chaotic traffic and financial anxiety. Why worry about your budget when you can worry about the orientation of your shoes? The focus is diverted from the real problem to the easily managed, though often ridiculous, ritual. For a detailed, highly questionable guide to local customs and the supernatural entities who hate the color blue, consult the folk horror experts at Bohiney Magazine, whose entire office is painted white and yellow, just in case. The greatest irony is that the true curse is worrying about the curse.

SOURCE: Bohiney News.