FACTS AND MYTHS IN AGRICULTURE
by: Ahito, Plazos, Tolentino, Gahum, Llesis
Farming is an ancient art. Agricultural folklore has persisted over the decades
as an industry that has existed for thousands of years and is still practiced by many
in the sector today. We've compiled a list of 10 farming superstitions you should be
aware of:
Superstitions Explanation
1. Eating in a field During the harvest
season, every farmer is
used to eating a few
sandwiches and drinking
a cup of tea on top of a
stack. But, according to
legendif you don't leave a
few crumbs behind, you'll
have bad luck.
2. Selecting Tools Some superstitious
with Caution farmers believe in dark
spirits with black magic.
Legend says that these
types of wood were used
by witches for their
brooms and wand.
3. Avoid The 13th Because the number 13 is
widely seen as bad, it's no
wonder that many
agricultural laborers
attempt to avoid working
in the fields on the 13th of
the month.
4. Plant during According to superstition,
Moonlight the moon can predict the
health of your harvest.
Planting at the wrong time
can curse your harvest.
Is there a reason to
believe it or not?
There’s no reason to
believe it since eating in
the agricultural area is a
bad habit and I think it
can affect your plants
because there’s a
tendency that it can
attract pests and insects.
There’s no reason to
believe it since it does not
affect the plant if we’re
going to use any tool that
comes from any origin
since it has no connection
to its development.
There’s no reason to
believe it since there’s no
scientific basis for it that if
you plant during the
13thday of the month it is
not good for everybody.
I think there’s a reason to
believe it. For best
immunity, wound healing,
regeneration, and
growth, most plants
appear to require regular
exposure to moonlight at
least for a week or so
around the full moon.
5. Do not water Plants may face a shock of I think there’s a reason to
your plants while sudden moisture believe it since water
full sun imbalance in their evaporates quickly due to
system.
6. Always join So, you will have an
fiesta abundance of crops and
be blessed by the lord.
7. Plant North to Before you start tilling or
South plowing, be sure to
confirm in what direction
you’ll be pointing your
tractor to create the best
possible fortune.
8. Leave Lone Trees Folklore says trimming or
Alone cutting down a tree that
stands alone in a field,
especially a hawthorn
tree, can anger the sprite
that resides within its
trunk and bring you bad
luck.
9. Keep Digging Farmers will be the first to
Tools Outside inform you that bringing a
shovel or other
excavating equipment
into the house is unlucky.
Keep those tools outside,
or you may end up
digging your pit of bad
luck.
10. Don’t Mix If you ever use a farming
Corpses and machinery to dig a grave,
Crops it should never be again
the hot sun and plants are
unable to make full use of
it.
Somehow I believe in this
because some citizens
came from the province
and we all know fiesta is a
religious festival, that's
why they want to bless
what they planted.
I think there’s no harm in
believing this and for
me,I believe that the ideal
method to orient garden
rows is north to south.
This provides the most
exposure to the light
while also allowing for
plenty of air circulation.
The rows of crops planted
east to west tend to shade
one another.
There’s nothing wrong to
believe any of these
superstitions and for this,
I think I believe in it since
the reason for saving a
singular tree is most
likely pretty simple; the
tree provided shade.
I think there’s no harm in
putting back your tools
inside your house since it
is the proper way of
keeping our tools and
equipment so that it will
last longer and it is clear
that there’s no scientific
basis to believe in it.
Just like other
superstition, there is no
reason to believe in it.
be used on your The rotting of crops is
agricultural work because probably caused by the
it will plague your crops old and decaying
and cause them to rot. agricultural equipment
used in digging land for
crop planting.