Country guides covering superstitions, folk beliefs, omens and traditions across Europe.
English and UK-Wide Superstitions: Beliefs and Omens Across Britain
Britain’s Folklore Society, founded in London in 1878, treats popular belief, childlore, calendar customs, plantlore, and...
🇦🇩 Andorran Superstitions
Andorra’s supernatural folklore is strongly attached to named Pyrenean places such as Lake Engolasters, the Roc...
🇦🇱 Albanian Superstitions
Albanian folk belief is strongly regional: early ethnographic records from the northern highlands preserve evil-eye protections,...
🇦🇲 Armenian Superstitions
Armenian folk belief has been recorded in the Republic of Armenia, historical Armenian communities, and a...
🇦🇹 Austrian Superstitions
Austria’s folk beliefs are strongly regional: material recorded in Styria, Salzburg, Carinthia, Upper Austria and Vienna...
🇦🇿 Azerbaijani Superstitions
In Azerbaijani folklore, short omen texts are commonly described with terms such as sınama, yozum, and...
🇧🇦 Bosnian Superstitions
Bosnia and Herzegovina has a documented folk-belief record stretching from nineteenth-century ethnographic collections to recent village...
🇧🇪 Belgian Superstitions
Belgian folk belief is highly local: records from Antwerp, Brabant and the Kempen preserve different omens...
🇧🇬 Bulgarian Superstitions
Bulgaria’s folk calendar links red-and-white March threads, winter masquerades, rain rites, wedding omens, ritual bread, dreams,...
🇧🇾 Belarusian Superstitions
Belarusian folklore has a large documented body of spoken charms: a 2025 academic study gives a...
🇨🇭 Swiss Superstitions
Swiss folk belief is often more local than national. The Federal Office of Culture’s inventory of...
🇨🇾 Cypriot Superstitions
Cypriot folk belief is documented in unusual depth by the Cyprus Research Centre, whose publication catalogue...
🇨🇿 Czech Superstitions
Czech Christmas Eve carries a dense set of household divinations in recorded tradition: shoes, apples, walnut-shell...
🇩🇪 German Superstitions
Germany’s Atlas der deutschen Volkskunde recorded folk customs, sayings, seasonal practices, and local beliefs across thousands...
🇩🇰 Danish Superstitions
Denmark’s oldest large folklore collections are especially strong on rural belief: farm work, livestock, childbirth, Christmas,...
🇪🇪 Estonian Superstitions
Estonian superstition is unusually well documented at parish level through the Estonian Folklore Archives, where beliefs...
🇪🇸 Spanish Superstitions
Spain’s folk-belief record is strongly regional: an omen documented in a village of León may be...
🇫🇮 Finnish Superstitions
Finland’s recorded folk beliefs are unusually well preserved through archival collections that document local customs, magic,...
🇫🇷 French Superstitions
France’s recorded folk beliefs differ sharply between Brittany, Corsica, Alsace, the Basque Country, Mediterranean communities, inland...
🇬🇪 Georgian Superstitions
Georgia’s recorded folk-belief traditions include the New Year first-foot custom known as mekvleoba, western Georgian chichilaki...
🇬🇷 Greek Superstitions
Greek folk belief uses the word mati for the evil eye and podariko for the luck...
🇭🇷 Croatian Superstitions
Croatian ethnographic records do not present superstition as one national checklist: material collected in Dalmatia, the...
🇭🇺 Hungarian Superstitions
Hungarian ethnographers have preserved an unusually large body of folk-belief material: a 2024 edition of the...
🇮🇪 Irish Superstitions
Ireland’s National Folklore Collection at University College Dublin preserves one of Europe’s largest archives of oral...
🇮🇸 Icelandic Superstitions
Iceland’s best-known supernatural traditions are preserved not as a single list of “national superstitions” but across...
🇮🇹 Italian Superstitions
Italy’s best-known unlucky date is Friday the 17th, while the red cornicello of Naples remains one...
🇰🇿 Kazakh Superstitions
Among Kazakh speakers, folk omens and prohibitions are often discussed through the linked ideas of yrym...
🇱🇮 Liechtensteiner Superstitions
Liechtenstein’s recorded folk belief is unusually well documented for such a small Alpine country. Otto Seger’s...
🇱🇹 Lithuanian Superstitions
The Lithuanian Folklore Archives preserve more than two million manuscript folklore texts, alongside hundreds of thousands...
🇱🇺 Luxembourgish Superstitions
Luxembourg’s National Library preserves nineteenth-century issues of Das Luxemburger Land with recurring sections titled Volksglaube im...
🇱🇻 Latvian Superstitions
Latvian folklore preserves a particularly large body of ticējumi: short folk-belief texts linking household actions, animals,...
🇲🇨 Monegasque Superstitions
Monaco’s best-preserved folk beliefs are closely tied to the Rock, the Mediterranean coast, the Monegasque language,...
🇲🇪 Montenegrin Superstitions
Montenegro’s Ethnographic Museum in Cetinje preserves more than 4,000 objects connected with the material and spiritual...
🇲🇰 Macedonian Superstitions
North Macedonia has an unusually detailed ethnographic record of folk belief: one volume of the Ethnological...
🇲🇹 Maltese Superstitions
Malta’s best-documented superstition cluster centres on l-għajn, the evil eye, with protective words, hand signs, amulets,...
🇳🇱 Dutch Superstitions
The Netherlands does not have one uniform body of superstition. Dutch folklore records place familiar expressions...
🇳🇴 Norwegian Superstitions
Norwegian folk belief was recorded across farm communities, fishing districts, mountain valleys, and coastal settlements, and...
🇵🇱 Polish Superstitions
Polish ethnographic records preserve beliefs under many labels—przesądy, wróżby, household warnings, seasonal omens, and protective acts—and...
🇷🇴 Romanian Superstitions
Romanian folk belief is unusually well documented at the regional level: the national cultural-heritage portal CIMEC...
🇷🇸 Serbian Superstitions
Serbian folk belief is especially well documented in protective charms, spring rituals, family celebrations, dream interpretation,...
🇷🇺 Russian Superstitions
Russian folk belief has been recorded through village calendars, family sayings, household rituals, seasonal divination, and...
🇸🇪 Swedish Superstitions
Sweden’s official folklore collections preserve tens of thousands of records about luck, omens, divination and everyday...
🇸🇮 Slovenian Superstitions
A 1963–64 Slovene Ethnographic Museum catalogue preserves Slovenian folk belief in unusually concrete form, from anti-hail...
🇸🇰 Slovak Superstitions
Slovak folk belief is unusually well documented through the Centre for Traditional Folk Culture, whose records...
🇸🇲 Sammarinese Superstitions
San Marino’s documented folk-belief material is unusually compact. Official Sammarinese cultural sources preserve the legend of...
🇹🇷 Turkish Superstitions
Türkiye’s provincial folklore records preserve local terms such as nazar, al basması, kırk basması, and Hıdırellez,...
🇺🇦 Ukrainian Superstitions
Ukrainian ethnographic records preserve a large vocabulary of household spirits, seasonal omens, divination customs, protective acts,...
🇻🇦 Vatican Superstitions
Vatican City does not have a large, separate body of national folk superstition comparable with that...
🏴 Scottish Superstitions
Scotland’s School of Scottish Studies was established at the University of Edinburgh in 1951, and its...
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