Country guides across Australia, New Zealand, Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia.
🇦🇺 Australian Superstitions
Australia’s recorded folk beliefs come from several very different strands: colonial-era protective customs, bush legends, rural...
🇫🇯 Fijian Superstitions
Fiji’s Cultural Mapping Programme records iTaukei knowledge across 14 provinces and 1,171 traditional villages, a scale...
🇫🇲 Micronesian Superstitions
The Federated States of Micronesia is made up of four culturally distinct states—Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, and...
🇰🇮 I-Kiribati Superstitions
Kiribati’s best-documented older folk beliefs come from the Gilbert Islands, traditionally called Tungaru, where early twentieth-century...
🇲🇭 Marshallese Superstitions
Marshallese folk belief is preserved through a mixture of oral narratives, older religious accounts, place-based taboos,...
🇳🇨 New Caledonian Superstitions
New Caledonia is home to 28 recognised Kanak vernacular languages, along with numerous local varieties, so...
🇳🇷 Nauruan Superstitions
Nauru’s best-documented older supernatural traditions are preserved in creation narratives, spirit beliefs, sky stories, fishing lore,...
🇳🇿 New Zealander Superstitions
Aotearoa New Zealand has detailed records of Māori tohu (signs), maramataka lunar nights, bird and weather...
🇵🇬 Papua New Guinea’s Superstitions
Papua New Guinea has more than 800 Indigenous languages, and many communities preserve their own names...
🇵🇼 Palauan Superstitions
Palauan oral tradition distinguishes bladek, the spirits of deceased ancestors, from chelid, gods and other divinities,...
🇸🇧 Solomon Islander Superstitions
Solomon Islands joined UNESCO’s 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2018,...
🇹🇴 Tongan Superstitions
Tongan folk belief has long used ideas such as tapu and mana to interpret sacred restriction,...
🇹🇻 Tuvaluan Superstitions
Tuvalu does not have one uniform body of superstitions shared identically across its islands. The clearest...
🇻🇺 Ni-Vanuatu Superstitions
Vanuatu’s government recognizes more than one hundred vernacular languages across an archipelago of many islands, so...
🇼🇸 Samoan Superstitions
Samoa's older religious vocabulary distinguished atua from aitu, and historical records describe aitu connected with villages,...
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