record_id,country,flag,region,hub,continents,ranking_status,rank,documented_count,documented_count_numeric,count_qualifier,count_type,source_title,source_institution,source_note,source_url,source_url_status,evidence_level,unranked_status,unranked_reason,country_page_url,post_id,post_slug,guide_count,latitude,longitude,dataset_version,release_date,dataset_url,methodology_url,dataset_license_url,license,attribution_url
SM-001,Slovenia,🇸🇮,Europe / Central,Europe,Europe,Ranked,1,"22,826+",22826,lower_bound,documented Slovenian folklore & memory narratives,"ZRC SAZU — Glasovi, zbirka slovenskih folklornih pripovedi","ZRC SAZU — Institute of Slovenian Ethnology, Glasovi series","The Institute of Slovenian Ethnology at ZRC SAZU states that the Glasovi series has published 57 books covering different parts of the Slovenian ethnic territory and together contains more than 22,826 units of contemporary Slovenian folklore and memory narratives. The texts were narrated by thousands of informants and recorded by hundreds of collectors, and the series includes tales, legends, jokes, anecdotes and other field-recorded folklore narratives. Because this is a broad folklore-narrative corpus rather than a count of unique superstitions, 22,826+ is presented as a documented Slovenian folklore/worldview corpus measure.",https://isn2.zrc-sazu.si/sl/strani/institut-za-slovensko-narodopisje-70-let,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/slovenian-superstitions/,536,slovenian-superstitions,80,46.11666666,14.81666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-002,Netherlands,🇳🇱,Europe / Western,Europe,Europe,Ranked,2,"16,867",16867,exact,"documented folk narratives collected in Friesland, Netherlands",Meertens Institute — Dam Jaarsma folk-narrative collection,Meertens Institute — Dam Jaarsma collection,"The Meertens Institute reports that collector Dam Jaarsma recorded 16,867 folk narratives in Friesland between 1965 and 1980. The corpus includes legends, fairy tales, humorous tales, anecdotes and other oral narratives and has been incorporated into the Dutch Folktale Database. Because the figure is a documented regional corpus from Friesland rather than a complete national count of Dutch superstitions, 16,867 is presented as a documented regional minimum.",https://meertens.knaw.nl/2015/09/16/sagen-jagen-door-de-friese-wouden/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/dutch-superstitions/,544,dutch-superstitions,50,52.5,5.75,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-003,Uzbekistan,🇺🇿,Central Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,3,"13,000+",13000,lower_bound,archival units of Uzbek oral folklore,Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan,,"The Institute of Uzbek Language, Literature and Folklore of the Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences states that its Folklore Archive contains 2,000 archival units and that more than 11,000 additional units were incorporated from the former H. Suleymanov Institute of Manuscripts folklore fund. The holdings include epics, songs, legends, tales and other oral-folklore genres. Because the combined 13,000+ figure counts archival units across multiple genres rather than unique Uzbek superstitions, it is presented as a broad documented folklore-archive corpus measure.",https://tai.academy.uz/en/pages/about-institute,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/uzbek-superstitions/,502,uzbek-superstitions,100,41.0,64.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-004,Iran,🇮🇷,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Ranked,4,"11,000",11000,exact,national folk-belief reference corpus,Hassan Zolfaghari & Ali-Akbar Shiri — Folk Beliefs of the People of Iran,Center for the Great Islamic Encyclopaedia / Iranian cultural research,"The comprehensive Iranian reference work gathered material from more than 1,000 books, articles and theses. After consolidating thousands of beliefs from different regions of Iran, the authors report 11,000 shared folk beliefs organized under 650 entries, with information on their geographic distribution.",https://www.cgie.org.ir/fa/news/115875/%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A8%D8%B1-%DA%A9%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8-%C2%AB%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%87-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%85-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%C2%BB,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/iranian-superstitions/,253,iranian-superstitions,100,32.0,53.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-005,Iceland,🇮🇸,Europe / Nordic,Europe,Europe,Ranked,5,"≈10,100",10100,approximate,catalogued Icelandic folk-legend records,Sagnagrunnur — The Icelandic Folk Legends Database,Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies — Sagnagrunnur,"Sagnagrunnur, the Icelandic folk-legend database maintained by the Árni Magnússon Institute, contains approximately 10,100 legends drawn from 19 published Icelandic folk-legend collections. The database provides collection-level counts, including thousands of records from major collectors such as Jón Árnason, Sigfús Sigfússon and Ólafur Davíðsson. Because these are catalogued folk legends rather than 10,100 unique modern superstitions, ≈10,100 is presented as a documented Icelandic folk-legend corpus measure.",https://sagnagrunnur.arnastofnun.is/instructions/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/icelandic-superstitions/,542,icelandic-superstitions,60,65.0,-18.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-006,Chile,🇨🇱,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,6,"10,000+",10000,lower_bound,manuscripts in Chile’s FUCOA oral-literature and popular-traditions collection,Biblioteca Nacional de Chile — Archivo de Literatura Oral y Tradiciones Populares,Biblioteca Nacional de Chile — Archivo de Literatura Oral y Tradiciones Populares,"Chile’s National Library states that the FUCOA collection in its Archive of Oral Literature and Popular Traditions contains more than 10,000 manuscripts submitted by children, young people and adults from rural communities or people connected with the countryside. The manuscripts document rural life, local stories, legends and inherited traditional culture from across Chile. Because this is a broad manuscript corpus rather than a count of unique Chilean superstitions, 10,000+ is presented as a documented oral-literature and popular-traditions corpus measure.",https://www.bibliotecanacional.gob.cl/archivo-de-literatura-oral-y-tradiciones-populares,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/chilean-superstitions/,482,chilean-superstitions,120,-30.0,-71.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-007,Pakistan,🇵🇰,South Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,7,"10,000+",10000,lower_bound,national folklore sound-archive recording corpus,Lok Virsa — National Institute of Folk and Traditional Heritage Sound Archives,Lok Virsa / UNESCO-ICHCAP documentation,"UNESCO-ICHCAP documentation of Pakistan’s Lok Virsa states that its national Sound Archives preserve more than 10,000 recorded tapes covering legends, tales, songs, festivals, beliefs and rituals. Lok Virsa’s wider research programme also documents superstitions, beliefs and good/bad omens. The 10,000+ figure is an archive-recording count, not 10,000 unique superstitions.",https://archive.unesco-ichcap.org/eng/ek/sub12/pdf_down/Pakistan/02-2.%20Lok%20Virsa.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/pakistani-superstitions/,323,pakistani-superstitions,100,30.0,70.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-008,United States,🇺🇸,North America,North America,North America,Ranked,8,"8,569+",8569,lower_bound,numbered North Carolina folk-belief and superstition entries,"Frank C. Brown Collection — Popular Beliefs and Superstitions from North Carolina, Vols. VI–VII",Duke University Press / Frank C. Brown Collection; bibliographic verification via JSTOR,"The Duke University Press Frank C. Brown Collection publishes consecutively numbered popular-belief and superstition items through no. 8,569. Because this corpus represents North Carolina alone, 8,569+ is a documented United States lower-bound corpus measure rather than an estimate of the total number of unique American superstitions.",https://www.jstor.org/stable/i266189,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/american-superstitions/,364,american-superstitions,100,38.0,-97.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-009,Philippines,🇵🇭,Southeast Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,9,"7,998",7998,exact,national encyclopedia entry corpus,Xavier University — Encyclopedia of Philippine Folk Beliefs and Customs,Xavier University – Ateneo de Cagayan / XU Press,"Xavier University describes the revised two-volume Encyclopedia of Philippine Folk Beliefs and Customs as containing 7,998 entries in 25 chapters, covering folk beliefs, customs and indigenous traditions across Philippine communities. The figure is an encyclopedia-entry count, not 7,998 unique superstitions.",https://www.xu.edu.ph/xavier-ateneo-bulletin/8004-the-revised-edition-of-the-encyclopedia-of-philippine-folk-beliefs-and-customs-coming-soon,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/filipino-superstitions/,319,filipino-superstitions,100,13.0,122.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-010,Switzerland,🇨🇭,Europe / Central,Europe,Europe,Ranked,10,"7,500+",7500,lower_bound,Swiss legend texts in a national digital folklore collection,Mutabor Märchenstiftung — Schweizer Märchenschatz,Mutabor Märchenstiftung,"The Mutabor Märchenstiftung describes its Swiss digital collection as containing more than 9,000 Swiss fairy tales and legends and states that its searchable legend section contains more than 7,500 texts. The legend records preserve regional traditions, customs and historical ideas from Swiss cantons. Because 7,500+ counts documented legend texts rather than unique Swiss superstitions, the value is presented as a documented Swiss legend-corpus measure.",https://www.maerchenstiftung.ch/maerchen-aus-aller-welt/schweizer-maerchen-zum-lesen-und-vorlesen/uebersicht-schweizer-maerchen,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/swiss-superstitions/,549,swiss-superstitions,40,47.0,8.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-011,Greece,🇬🇷,Europe / Mediterranean,Europe,Europe,Ranked,11,"6,800+",6800,lower_bound,Academy folk-tradition archive corpus,"Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens — Archive of Proverbs and Popular Legends","Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, Academy of Athens / SearchCulture.gr","The Academy of Athens archive reports more than 6,800 traditions from all regions of Greece and Asia Minor, indexed from the Folklore Centre’s manuscript archive and printed sources. This is a folk-tradition archive count, not 6,800 unique superstitions.",https://www.searchculture.gr/aggregator/portal/collections/AcademyParimies?language=en,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/greek-superstitions/,326,greek-superstitions,100,39.0,22.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-012,Yemen,🇾🇪,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Ranked,12,"6,217+",6217,lower_bound,documented Yemeni proverb & cultural-worldview entries,Ismail ibn Ali al-Akwa — al-Amthal al-Yamaniyya (Yemeni Proverbs),"Ismail ibn Ali al-Akwa — al-Amthal al-Yamaniyya; 6,217-proverb corpus documented in scholarly/biographical literature and cross-checked against a 2026 5,252-entry Yemeni proverb research corpus","Ismail ibn Ali al-Akwa's monumental al-Amthal al-Yamaniyya (Yemeni Proverbs) documents 6,217 Yemeni proverbs, with explanations and comparisons to related Arabic proverbial traditions. The published collection is a major corpus of Yemeni popular culture and cultural knowledge. Independent evidence supports its scale: a 2026 research corpus contains 5,252 manually verified Yemeni Arabic proverbs after duplicate and incomplete records were removed, while a Yale-listed study documents more than 1,000 proverbs from the city of Ibb alone. Because proverbs encode cultural knowledge, customs and worldview but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 6,217+ is presented as a documented Yemeni folklore/worldview corpus measure rather than an exact national count of distinct superstitions.",https://maknoon.org/ai/view.php?bk=141850s&p=124,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/yemeni-superstitions/,420,yemeni-superstitions,120,15.0,48.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-013,India,🇮🇳,South Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,13,"5,987",5987,exact,source corpus size,IGNCA — A Glimpse of Vedic Literature (Atharvaveda),"Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (IGNCA), Ministry of Culture, Government of India","The Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts states that the Atharvaveda describes popular beliefs and superstitions and contains 20 kandas, 711 hymns and 5,987 mantras; most of these hymns are used to ward off evil spirits. The 5,987 figure is the mantra corpus size, not a count of unique superstitions.",https://ignca.gov.in/a-glimpse-of-vedic-literature/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/indian-superstitions/,155,indian-superstitions,100,20.0,77.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-014,Hungary,🇭🇺,Europe / Central,Europe,Europe,Ranked,14,"≈5,300",5300,approximate,classified Hungarian belief-legend types in a Transylvanian Hungarian corpus,Hungarian Science / Akadémiai Kiadó — Catalogue of Hungarian Belief Legends in Transylvania,Hungarian Science / Akadémiai Kiadó,"Academic discussion of Zoltán Magyar's Catalogue of Hungarian Belief Legends in Transylvania reports approximately 5,300 classified belief-legend types derived from roughly 35,000 folklore texts. The catalogue covers omens, death and the dead, supernatural beings, witches, seers, magical specialists, werewolves, mythical animals, magical objects, taboos and everyday magic. Because the corpus documents Transylvanian Hungarian tradition rather than an exhaustive national count for present-day Hungary, ≈5,300 is presented as a classified regional Hungarian belief-legend corpus measure.",https://mersz.hu/dokumentum/matud202208__23/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/hungarian-superstitions/,509,hungarian-superstitions,60,47.0,20.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-015,Bulgaria,🇧🇬,Europe / Eastern,Europe,Europe,Ranked,15,"5,000+",5000,lower_bound,"traditional-culture terms covering Bulgarian beliefs, rituals and customs",Dictionary of the Folk Spiritual Culture of the Bulgarians,Dictionary of the Folk Spiritual Culture of the Bulgarians,"The encyclopedic Dictionary of the Folk Spiritual Culture of the Bulgarians presents more than 5,000 names and terms connected with traditional Bulgarian values and culture, including the home, family, holidays, rites, customs and beliefs. Because the 5,000+ figure is a traditional-culture terminology corpus that includes but is not limited to beliefs, it is presented as a documented Bulgarian folk-spiritual-culture corpus measure rather than a count of unique superstitions.",https://academicabooks.bg/product/%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%87%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%BA-%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B4%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%82%D0%B0-%D0%B4%D1%83%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BD%D0%B0-%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BB%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0-%D0%BD/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/bulgarian-superstitions/,458,bulgarian-superstitions,120,43.0,25.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-016,Estonia,🇪🇪,Europe / Baltic,Europe,Europe,Ranked,16,"≈5,000",5000,approximate,archived Estonian hidden-treasure belief & legend records,Estonian Folklore Archives — hidden-treasure tradition corpus,Estonian Folklore Archives / Estonian Literary Museum — hidden-treasure tradition research,"Research based on the Estonian Folklore Archives reports approximately 5,000 archival texts and recordings connected with Estonia’s hidden-treasure tradition. The material includes traditional beliefs, legends, supernatural treasure guardians and magical practices surrounding buried treasure. Because the corpus concerns one major belief-and-legend theme rather than the whole of Estonian folk belief, ≈5,000 is presented as a documented thematic archive measure, not as the total number of unique Estonian superstitions.",https://www.folklore.ee/balkan_baltic_yearbook/YBBS/article/view/184,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/estonian-superstitions/,541,estonian-superstitions,60,59.0,26.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-017,Russia,🇷🇺,Eastern Europe / Eurasia,Europe,Europe|Asia,Ranked,17,"5,000+",5000,lower_bound,academic working-card-index minimum,Elena E. Tonkova — Russian Folk Omens from Linguocognitive and Linguocultural Perspectives,Academic dissertation / Russian-language folklore and linguocultural research,"The academic study states that its working card index contains more than 5,000 Russian folk omens and beliefs, compiled from nineteenth- and twentieth-century ethnographic and linguistic works, periodicals, and surveys. The author also notes that not everything could be included because of duplicates and variants, so 5,000+ is a research-corpus minimum rather than a final national total.",https://cheloveknauka.com/narodnaya-primeta-s-pozitsiy-lingvokognitivistiki-i-lingvokulturologii,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/russian-superstitions/,249,russian-superstitions,100,60.0,100.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-018,Sweden,🇸🇪,Europe / Nordic,Europe,Europe,Ranked,18,"≈5,000",5000,approximate,Swedish legend records from national folklore archives,Institute for Language and Folklore,,"Sweden's Institute for Language and Folklore (Isof) states that approximately 5,000 legends from its archives in Gothenburg and Uppsala and selected printed folklore collections were made available through the Sägenkartan project. The material includes legends and related traditional narratives concerning supernatural beings, belief descriptions and extraordinary events. Because these approximately 5,000 records are an archival selection rather than a complete count of unique Swedish superstitions, the figure is presented as a documented Swedish legend-corpus measure.",https://www.isof.se/folkminnen/forskning-och-projekt/arkiv-folkminnesprojekt/projektet-sagner-pa-kartan,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/swedish-superstitions/,525,swedish-superstitions,90,62.0,15.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-019,Romania,🇷🇴,Europe / Eastern,Europe,Europe,Ranked,19,"≈4,500",4500,approximate,documented Romanian belief & superstition ethnographic texts,Artur Gorovei — Credinţi şi superstiţii ale poporului român (1915),Romanian Academy historical series / modern critical edition of Artur Gorovei’s Romanian belief and superstition corpus,"Artur Gorovei's Credinţi şi superstiţii ale poporului român, published in 1915 in the Romanian Academy's Din viaţa poporului român series, preserves a corpus described in a modern critical edition as approximately 4,500 authentic ethnographic texts concerning Romanian beliefs and superstitions. A later edition combining material from Gorovei and Gh. F. Ciauşanu contains nearly 5,000 Romanian belief and superstition samples, but that higher combined figure is not used here to avoid possible overlap. Because individual texts may represent regional variants of related beliefs, ≈4,500 refers to documented ethnographic belief/superstition texts rather than 4,500 unique national superstitions.",https://www.clb.ro/Produse/credinte-si-superstitii-ale-poporului-roman-71333.aspx,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/romanian-superstitions/,459,romanian-superstitions,108,46.0,25.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-020,Malaysia,🇲🇾,Southeast Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,20,"4,359+",4359,lower_bound,officially documented Malay proverb & cultural-worldview entries,Abdullah Hussain — Kamus Istimewa Peribahasa Melayu,Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) — official PRPM record for Abdullah Hussain’s Malay proverb corpus,"Abdullah Hussain's Kamus Istimewa Peribahasa Melayu, published by Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, is stated in DBP's official PRPM service to contain 4,359 Malay proverbs. Malaysian government library catalogues classify the work under Malay proverbs including Malaysia, while academic research uses the dictionary as a corpus of traditional Malay cultural knowledge and worldview. Because the collection is a broad Malay paremiological corpus whose cultural range is wider than an inventory of unique superstitions confined to modern Malaysia, 4,359+ is presented as a documented Malaysia-linked Malay proverb/worldview corpus minimum rather than an exact national superstition total.",https://prpm.dbp.gov.my/Cari1?d=175768&keyword=hussain,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/malaysian-superstitions/,454,malaysian-superstitions,120,2.5,112.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-021,Taiwan,🇹🇼,East Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,21,"4,300+",4300,lower_bound,officially catalogued Taiwanese colloquial-proverb entries,Taiwan Historica — 臺灣俚諺集覽 (Collection of Taiwanese Colloquial Proverbs),Taiwan Historica (Academia Historica) / National Museum of Taiwan Literature,"Taiwan Historica (Academia Historica) describes the 1914 臺灣俚諺集覽 as containing more than approximately 4,300 Taiwanese colloquial-proverb entries collected from local speech traditions and organised into twenty thematic categories, including deities, fate, morality, occupations and diviners. Taiwan's National Museum of Taiwan Literature gives a somewhat higher figure of approximately 4,700 entries for the same historical corpus. Because the collection also includes maxims, idiomatic material, stories and related traditional expressions, 4,300+ is used as a conservative official folklore-corpus minimum rather than an exact count of unique Taiwanese superstitions.",https://www.th.gov.tw/Epaper_Content/236/7024/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/taiwanese-superstitions/,452,taiwanese-superstitions,120,23.5,121.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-022,Canada,🇨🇦,North America,North America,North America,Ranked,22,"4,000+",4000,lower_bound,field recordings in a major Nova Scotia folklore collection,Parks Canada — Helen Creighton National Historic Person backgrounder,Parks Canada / Helen Creighton folklore collection,"Parks Canada states that Helen Creighton’s field research from 1928 to 1975 produced one of Canada’s largest collections of songs, tales, customs and material culture, including more than 4,000 recordings gathered from Nova Scotia’s British, Acadian, Gaelic, German, African-Nova Scotian and Mi’kmaw communities. Because this is a major regional Canadian folklore corpus rather than a national count of unique superstitions, 4,000+ is presented as a documented regional minimum.",https://www.canada.ca/en/parks-canada/news/2018/08/helen-creighton-1899-1989.html,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/canadian-superstitions/,484,canadian-superstitions,120,60.0,-95.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-023,Czech Republic,🇨🇿,Europe / Central,Europe,Europe,Ranked,23,"≈4,000",4000,approximate,Czech folk tales gathered for a comprehensive national catalogue,Czech Academy of Sciences — comprehensive Czech folk-tale catalogue research,Czech Academy of Sciences,"The Czech Academy of Sciences reports that folklorist Jaroslav Otčenášek has gathered approximately 4,000 Czech folk tales for a comprehensive catalogue of the Czech folk-tale tradition. The catalogue work draws on the traditional Czech territory and documented narrative traditions. Because the approximately 4,000 texts are folk tales rather than an exhaustive count of unique Czech superstitions, the value is presented as a documented national folk-tale corpus measure.",https://www.avcr.cz/cs/udalosti/Pohadky-bylo-nebylo-aneb-od-lechtivych-pribehu-k-povidani-pro-deti/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/czech-superstitions/,529,czech-superstitions,90,49.75,15.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-024,Ghana,🇬🇭,West Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,24,"3,600",3600,exact,Akan/Twi proverb corpus,"J. G. Christaller — 3,600 Twi/Akan proverbs",Basel Mission Archives / J. G. Christaller,"The Basel Mission Archives catalogue records Christaller’s collection as 3,600 Twi proverbs used among Asante and Fante speakers of the Gold Coast. This is a proverb corpus associated with Ghanaian/Akan folklore, not 3,600 unique superstitions.",https://www.bmarchives.org/items/show/47560?output=pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/ghanaian-superstitions/,358,ghanaian-superstitions,86,8.0,-2.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-025,Latvia,🇱🇻,Europe / Baltic,Europe,Europe,Ranked,25,"3,586",3586,exact,documented Latvian legends in Pēteris Šmits's folklore corpus,University of Latvia — research on Pēteris Šmits’s Latvian Folktales and Legends corpus,University of Latvia / Archives of Latvian Folklore,"University of Latvia research on Pēteris Šmits's Latvian Folktales and Legends corpus reports 4,309 folktales and 3,586 legends. For SuperstitionsMap, only the 3,586 legend corpus is used rather than combining different folklore genres. This is a documented published Latvian legend corpus, not a claim that Latvia has exactly 3,586 unique superstitions.",https://research.lu.lv/en/publications/ce%C4%BC%C4%81-uz-digit%C4%81lo-latvie%C5%A1u-teiku-r%C4%81d%C4%ABt%C4%81ju-priek%C5%A1v%C4%93sture/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/latvian-superstitions/,531,latvian-superstitions,85,57.0,25.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-026,Serbia,🇷🇸,Europe / Balkans,Europe,Europe,Ranked,26,"3,230",3230,exact,objects in Serbia’s Ethnographic Museum Beliefs & Customs collection,Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade — Beliefs and Customs collection,Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade,"The Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade states that its Beliefs and Customs collection contains 3,230 items. The collection includes ritual breads, masks, amulets, fortune-telling and witchcraft objects, evil-eye protections, votive objects and material associated with pre-Christian and other traditional beliefs and customs. Because 3,230 is an object count rather than a count of 3,230 distinct Serbian beliefs, the value is explicitly presented as a museum collection measure.",https://etnografskimuzej.rs/en/zbirka/beliefs-and-customs/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/serbian-superstitions/,506,serbian-superstitions,90,44.1305021,16.4284181,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-027,Argentina,🇦🇷,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,27,"3,152+",3152,lower_bound,academically catalogued Argentine folk narratives,Berta Elena Vidal de Battini — Cuentos y leyendas populares de la Argentina,INAPL / academic research on Berta Elena Vidal de Battini’s national Argentine folklore corpus,"Berta Elena Vidal de Battini's monumental Cuentos y leyendas populares de la Argentina contains 3,152 traditional narratives collected across Argentina and classified into folkloric types, versions and variants. Academic research describes it as the largest corpus of Argentine folkloric narrative. The collection includes folk tales and legends, including magical and supernatural traditions, but not every narrative represents a unique superstition. Separately, a 2023 peer-reviewed study of the 1921 National Folklore Survey identified 431 animal-omen mentions under the explicit category 'supersticiones' in Córdoba Province alone. Therefore 3,152+ is presented as a national folklore-corpus measure rather than an exact count of distinct Argentine superstitions.",https://www.academia.edu/107276324/100_a%C3%B1os_de_la_Encuesta_Nacional_de_Folklore_1921_2021_Reflexiones_balances_y_desaf%C3%ADos,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/argentine-superstitions/,400,argentine-superstitions,80,-34.0,-64.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-028,DR Congo,🇨🇩,Africa / Central,Africa,Africa,Ranked,28,"3,000+",3000,lower_bound,documented Yaka proverb & cultural-worldview entries,Alain van der Beken — Proverbes Yaka du Zaïre / Proverbes Yaka du Congo,"Alain van der Beken — complementary Yaka proverb field corpora from Kasongo-Lunda, DR Congo (1969–2000)","Alain van der Beken's two complementary Yaka proverb collections document 3,000 proverbs from the Kasongo-Lunda region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Proverbes Yaka du Zaïre contains 2,000 proverbs collected between 1969 and 1991, while Proverbes Yaka du Congo adds 1,000 previously unpublished proverbs collected at the same field site between 1991 and 2000. The author explicitly describes the two collections as complementary products of thirty years of research. Their cultural context includes traditional beliefs concerning divination, sorcery, medicine, ancestry, customary authority and worldview. Because proverbs encode many forms of cultural knowledge but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 3,000+ is presented as a documented Yaka folklore/worldview corpus measure rather than an exact national count of distinct Congolese superstitions.",https://api.pageplace.de/preview/DT0400.9782296261822_A24214787/preview-9782296261822_A24214787.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/congolese-drc-superstitions/,434,congolese-drc-superstitions,110,0.0,25.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-029,Scotland,🏴,Europe / Western,Europe,Europe,Ranked,29,"3,000+",3000,lower_bound,historically attested Scottish proverb & cultural-worldview repertoire,James Kelly — A Complete Collection of Scotish Proverbs (1721),"Historical Scottish paremiology — James Kelly (1721), corroborated by Alexander Hislop, The Proverbs of Scotland","James Kelly's 1721 A Complete Collection of Scotish Proverbs is a dedicated historical corpus of Scottish proverbial material. Alexander Hislop's later The Proverbs of Scotland states that Kelly's published collection contained nearly 3,000 proverbs, while historical discussion of Kelly records his observation that more than 3,000 proverbs regarded as specifically Scottish circulated in society. Because proverbial repertoire reflects traditional cultural knowledge but is not equivalent to a catalogue of unique superstitions, 3,000+ is used as a historically attested Scottish proverb/worldview measure rather than an exact Scottish superstition total.",https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26150,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/scottish-superstitions/,457,scottish-superstitions,108,56.4907,-4.2026,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-030,Iraq,🇮🇶,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Ranked,30,"2,842+",2842,lower_bound,documented Baghdadi proverb & cultural-worldview entries,Jalal al-Hanafi al-Baghdadi — al-Amthal al-Baghdadiyya,Jalal al-Hanafi al-Baghdadi — published Baghdadi proverb corpus,"Jalal al-Hanafi al-Baghdadi's al-Amthal al-Baghdadiyya documents more than 2,842 colloquial Baghdadi proverbs, arranged alphabetically and preserved in their popular spoken forms. The collection also records traditions, local values, occupations, living conditions and social attitudes associated with Baghdad's cultural heritage. Historical Iraqi collectors assembled even larger proverb corpora, but the 2,842+ figure is preferred because it is tied to a clearly published and bibliographically identifiable collection. Because proverbs transmit many forms of cultural knowledge but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 2,842+ is presented as a documented Iraqi folklore/worldview corpus measure rather than an exact national count of distinct superstitions.",https://www.neelwafurat.com/itempage.aspx?id=lbb195132-164908&search=books,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/iraqi-superstitions/,440,iraqi-superstitions,124,33.0,44.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-031,Japan,🇯🇵,East Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,31,"2,800+",2800,lower_bound,national dictionary corpus minimum,CiNii Books / National Institute of Informatics — Nihon Zokushin Jiten (Animal Volume),"CiNii Books, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan","CiNii describes this dictionary as systematically collecting sayings and superstitions transmitted across Japan and states that the animal volume alone contains approximately 2,800 folk-belief examples concerning animals, marine life and insects. The 2,800+ figure is therefore a documented corpus minimum, not a final total for all Japanese superstitions.",https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BD02947249,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/japanese-superstitions/,174,japanese-superstitions,60,36.0,138.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-032,Denmark,🇩🇰,Europe / Nordic,Europe,Europe,Ranked,32,"2,700",2700,exact,Danish fairy tales in Evald Tang Kristensen’s documented folklore collection,Southern Denmark Music Conservatory — Evald Tang Kristensen folklore collection,Southern Denmark Music Conservatory / Evald Tang Kristensen collection,"The Southern Denmark Music Conservatory states that Danish folklore collector Evald Tang Kristensen travelled around Jutland for about 40 years and collected 2,700 fairy tales, alongside folk songs, melodies, legends, rhymes and proverbs. To keep the comparison conservative, SuperstitionsMap uses only the explicitly counted 2,700 fairy tales rather than the much larger mixed-genre totals. This is a documented historical folklore corpus, not a count of all unique Danish superstitions.",https://www.sdmk.dk/en/about-sdmk/research-and-development/artistic-research/artistic-research-folk-eh-musik,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/danish-superstitions/,532,danish-superstitions,80,56.0,10.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-033,Ireland,🇮🇪,Europe / Western,Europe,Europe,Ranked,33,"≈2,535",2535,approximate,National Folklore Collection folk-belief archive records,Dúchas / National Folklore Collection — folk belief archive,"Dúchas / National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin","Ireland’s National Folklore Collection at University College Dublin indexes approximately 2,535 records under the folk belief topic in the Dúchas digital archive. These are archival folk-belief records and can include regional variants or related versions of the same motif, so ≈2,535 is a corpus measure rather than an exact count of unique Irish superstitions.",https://www.duchas.ie/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/irish-superstitions/,376,irish-superstitions,110,53.0,-8.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-034,Eritrea,🇪🇷,East Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,34,"2,500+",2500,lower_bound,"documented Eritrean proverb, taboo & cultural-worldview entries",Ahferom Tewolde — Selected Eritrean Proverbs (2026),"Eritrean Center for Strategic Studies — review of Ahferom Tewolde, Selected Eritrean Proverbs (2026)","Ahferom Tewolde's 2026 Selected Eritrean Proverbs is a 237-page compilation drawing on Eritrea's ethnic and language groups. A contemporary review of the work explicitly states that the author selected 2,500 proverbs and organised the corpus around themes including law, justice, family and social values, with particular attention to taboos; the review further describes proverbs as mechanisms that reinforce taboos and regulate behaviour. Earlier Tigrinya collections contain still larger proverb-and-riddle corpora, but those are not used because Tigrinya extends beyond Eritrea and the categories are broader. Because the 2,500 entries are proverbs and cultural expressions rather than 2,500 distinct supernatural beliefs, 2,500+ is presented as an Eritrean proverb/taboo/worldview corpus measure rather than an exact national superstition count.",https://www.ecss-online.com/2013/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Selected-Eritrean-Proverbs-Book.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/eritrean-superstitions/,463,eritrean-superstitions,50,15.0,39.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-035,Panama,🇵🇦,Central America,North America,North America,Ranked,35,"2,500+",2500,lower_bound,academically documented Panamanian proverb & cultural-worldview entries,Luisita Aguilera Patiño — Refranero panameño: contribución a la paremiología hispanoamericana,Biblioteca Virtual de la Filología Española / Universidad de Chile doctoral corpus; institutional Panamanian folklore catalogue corroboration,"Luisita Aguilera Patiño's 1955 Refranero panameño: contribución a la paremiología hispanoamericana, developed as her doctoral work at the University of Chile, documents a thematically organised corpus of 2,500 Panamanian proverbs. Institutional catalogues independently classify the work under Panamanian folklore and Panamanian proverbs. Because proverbial material transmits traditional cultural knowledge and worldview but is not equivalent to a catalogue of unique superstitions, 2,500+ is presented as a documented Panamanian paremiological/folklore corpus minimum rather than an exact national superstition count.",https://www.bvfe.es/en/autor/9174-aguilera-patino-luisita.html,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/panamanian-superstitions/,455,panamanian-superstitions,120,9.0,-80.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-036,Greenland,🇬🇱,North America,North America,North America,Ranked,36,"≈2,280",2280,approximate,documented Greenlandic oral myths & stories,Danish Arctic Institute,,"The Danish Arctic Institute's Greenlandic Myths & Stories database contains approximately 2,280 written-down oral stories. The database's introduction states that the corpus is intended to represent different regions of Greenland and is designed to make extensive Greenlandic oral tradition searchable. Because the approximately 2,280 records are myths, legends and other oral stories rather than an exhaustive count of unique Greenlandic superstitions, the value is presented as a documented oral-tradition corpus measure.",https://arktiskinstitut.dk/en/knowledge-database/greenlandic-myths-and-stories/search-in-greenlandic-myths-stories,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/greenlandic-superstitions/,548,greenlandic-superstitions,40,72.0,-40.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-037,South Africa,🇿🇦,Africa / South,Africa,Africa,Ranked,37,"2,200+",2200,lower_bound,academic multilingual South African proverb records,Soshanguve Paremiology+: A Multilingual Approach (2025),University of South Africa (Unisa) / AOSIS — Soshanguve Paremiology+ multilingual proverb project (2025),"The University of South Africa multilingual proverbs project, published in 2025 as Soshanguve Paremiology+: A Multilingual Approach, compiled more than 200 common equivalent proverbs in each of 11 South African languages and digitised them in a multilingual dictionary, representing at least 2,200 language-specific proverb records. The project treats proverbs as carriers of cultural memory, values, beliefs and worldview. Because equivalent proverbs may recur across different languages, 2,200+ represents multilingual corpus records rather than 2,200 unique South African proverbs or superstitions.",https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/105937,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/south-african-superstitions/,430,south-african-superstitions,120,-29.0,24.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-038,Benin,🇧🇯,West Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,38,"2,000+",2000,lower_bound,documented Fon proverb & cultural-worldview entries,"Pamphile Boco — Proverbes de la sagesse fon (Sud-Bénin), four-volume corpus","Pamphile Boco — Proverbes de la sagesse fon (Sud-Bénin), four-volume Cotonou corpus; 2,000-entry count documented in scholarly Fon paremiology and cross-checked with HathiTrust catalogue records","Pamphile Boco's four-volume Proverbes de la sagesse fon (Sud-Bénin), published in Cotonou between 1995 and 2000, documents and interprets 2,000 Fon proverbs. Library catalogues identify the work specifically as a collection of Beninese and Fon proverbs, while scholarly research on Fon paremiology treats such proverbs as vehicles for social communication and the transmission of traditional knowledge. The corpus includes material rooted in customs, narratives, moral concepts and traditional cultural references, but proverbs are not equivalent to unique superstitions. Therefore 2,000+ is presented as a documented Fon folklore/worldview corpus minimum rather than an exact national count of distinct Beninese superstitions.",https://sourceschretiennes.org/sites/default/files/documents/proverbes%20fon%20M.%20Dujarier.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/beninese-superstitions/,416,beninese-superstitions,120,9.5,2.25,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-039,Guatemala,🇬🇹,Central America,North America,North America,Ranked,39,"2,000+",2000,lower_bound,"catalogued Guatemalan proverb, saying & popular-expression entries","Está como me lo recetó el doctor: más de 2,000 refranes, dichos y expresiones que usamos los chapines","Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC), Biblioteca Central — catalogued 2,000+ Guatemalan refranes, dichos y expresiones corpus","The Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala Central Library catalogues Está como me lo recetó el doctor: más de 2,000 refranes, dichos y expresiones que usamos los chapines, a Guatemalan collection compiled by the Centro de Enseñanza Integral Sistematizado. Independent scholarly bibliographies identify the work as a 2001 Guatemala publication. USAC folklore research treats Guatemalan proverbs as elements of folklore that preserve popular culture and wisdom, while separate ethnographic and oral-history collections document extensive Maya beliefs, rituals, supernatural traditions and cosmovision. Because proverbs, sayings and popular expressions are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 2,000+ is presented as a documented Guatemalan folklore/cultural-expression corpus measure rather than an exact national count of distinct superstitions.",https://biblos.usac.edu.gt/opac/record/193,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/guatemalan-superstitions/,424,guatemalan-superstitions,108,15.5,-90.25,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-040,Ivory Coast,🇨🇮,West Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,40,"2,000+",2000,lower_bound,documented Ivorian Sénoufo proverb & cultural-worldview entries,Timothy F. Garrard & Soro Foungnigué Idrissa — La sagesse d'un peuple: 2000 proverbes Senoufo,"SUDOC academic library catalogue — Timothy F. Garrard & Soro Foungnigué Idrissa, La sagesse d'un peuple: 2000 proverbes Senoufo; Côte d'Ivoire context cross-checked with academic and UNESCO materials","Timothy F. Garrard and Soro Foungnigué Idrissa's 2001 La sagesse d'un peuple: 2000 proverbes Senoufo documents a corpus of 2,000 Sénoufo proverbs. Contemporary reporting on the collection states that the material was gathered over more than five years, particularly among the Tyébara Sénoufo of Côte d'Ivoire. Academic and UNESCO materials independently document Sénoufo oral traditions, proverb use and the Poro cultural system in northern Côte d'Ivoire, while additional Ivorian Mandé, Baoulé, Gban and other proverb collections demonstrate a broader national folklore record. Because proverbs encode cultural knowledge and worldview but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 2,000+ is presented as a documented Ivorian folklore/worldview corpus minimum rather than an exact count of distinct superstitions.",https://www.sudoc.fr/080689892,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/ivorian-superstitions/,412,ivorian-superstitions,120,8.0,-5.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-041,Kenya,🇰🇪,Africa / East,Africa,Africa,Ranked,41,"2,000+",2000,lower_bound,academically documented Kamba proverb & worldview entries,"Jeremiah M. Kitunda — Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya: Sources, Origins & History",James Currey / Boydell & Brewer — Jeremiah M. Kitunda Kamba proverb corpus; JSTOR,"Jeremiah M. Kitunda's Kamba Proverbs from Eastern Kenya: Sources, Origins & History analyses 2,000 Kamba proverbs collected from oral interviews, archival collections, museum artefacts and published sources. The corpus is used to reconstruct Kamba cultural history and worldview and explicitly covers cosmology, ritual and belief, healing, weather and other areas of traditional knowledge. Kenya's wider documented folk-belief heritage includes additional Kikuyu, Luo, Luhya, Maasai, Mijikenda and other traditions. Because proverbs encode cultural knowledge and worldview but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 2,000+ is presented as an academically documented Kamba folklore/worldview corpus measure rather than an exact national count of Kenyan superstitions.",https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv24tr934,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/kenyan-superstitions/,406,kenyan-superstitions,120,1.0,38.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-042,Malawi,🇲🇼,South Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,42,"2,000+",2000,lower_bound,academically documented Chinyanja proverb & cultural-worldview entries,J. C. Chakanza — Wisdom of the People: 2000 Chinyanja Proverbs,"Kachere Series / Malawi — J. C. Chakanza, Wisdom of the People: 2000 Chinyanja Proverbs","J. C. Chakanza's Wisdom of the People: 2000 Chinyanja Proverbs, published in Malawi through the Kachere Series, documents more than 2,000 Chinyanja proverbs and figurative cultural expressions. Chakanza's corpus draws on his own 1994–1999 field research as well as published and unpublished Malawian sources, and academic scholarship independently describes it as a collection of over 2,000 Chinyanja proverbs. The numbered corpus extends beyond entry 2,000. Because proverbs transmit cultural wisdom and worldview but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 2,000+ is presented as a documented Malawian folklore/worldview corpus measure rather than an exact count of distinct superstitions.",https://africanbookscollective.com/books/wisdom-of-the-people/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/malawian-superstitions/,432,malawian-superstitions,110,-13.5,34.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-043,Sudan,🇸🇩,North-East Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,43,"2,000+",2000,lower_bound,documented Sudanese proverb & worldview entries,Abdullahi Osman El-Tom & Abdelraouf Mohamed Adam — Proverbs of Western and Central Sudan,Abdullahi Osman El-Tom & Abdelraouf Mohamed Adam — Proverbs of Western and Central Sudan; publication details cross-checked with Maynooth University and WorldCat,"Abdullahi Osman El-Tom and Abdelraouf Mohamed Adam's Proverbs of Western and Central Sudan presents around 2,000 proverbs from western and central Sudan, described by its publisher as part of the region's folklore, heritage and accumulated wisdom. El-Tom's academic profile at Maynooth University records the original 2002 publication of the collection. An independent doctoral study by Salwa Ahmed analysed a further corpus of 842 frequently used Sudanese proverbs in their social context and describes proverbs as vehicles for Sudanese beliefs, values and cultural worldview. Because proverbs encode many forms of cultural knowledge but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 2,000+ is presented as a documented Sudanese folklore/worldview corpus measure rather than an exact national count of distinct superstitions.",https://www.badawi.de/wissenschaftliche-abhandlungen/literaturwissenschaft/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/sudanese-superstitions/,408,sudanese-superstitions,110,15.0,30.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-044,Venezuela,🇻🇪,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,44,"2,000+",2000,lower_bound,documented Venezuelan proverb & folk-verse entries,"Antonio Carrera Sibila — Refranero venezolano: más de 2,000 refranes y coplas criollas (1991)","Academia Venezolana de la Lengua bibliography — Antonio Carrera Sibila, Refranero venezolano: más de 2,000 refranes y coplas criollas (Caracas, 1991)","Antonio Carrera Sibila's Refranero venezolano: más de 2,000 refranes y coplas criollas, published in Caracas by Fondo Editorial Carlos Aponte in 1991, documents a corpus of more than 2,000 Venezuelan proverbs and traditional folk verses. The work is listed in the bibliography of the Academia Venezolana de la Lengua and is classified bibliographically under Venezuelan proverbs, folklore, social life and customs. Academic research independently documents Venezuelan popular beliefs and superstitions as socially shared traditions transmitted across generations. Because proverbs and folk verses encode many forms of cultural knowledge but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 2,000+ is presented as a documented Venezuelan folklore-corpus measure rather than an exact national count of distinct superstitions.",https://avelengua.org.ve/cms/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/AVL-BOLETIN-206-2071.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/venezuelan-superstitions/,418,venezuelan-superstitions,120,8.0,-66.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-045,Sri Lanka,🇱🇰,South Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,45,"1,873+",1873,lower_bound,documented Jaffna Tamil proverb & cultural-worldview entries,"Peter Percival — A Collection of Proverbs in Tamil (Jaffna Book Society, 1843)","Jaffna Book Society / Classified Catalogue of Tamil Printed Books; Peter Percival 1843 Jaffna proverb corpus, cross-checked with the author preface","Peter Percival's A Collection of Proverbs in Tamil: With Their Translation in English, published by the Jaffna Book Society in 1843, is bibliographically catalogued as containing 1,873 Tamil proverbs. Percival himself described the first collection as nearly 1,900 proverbs gathered during his Jaffna period. His later expanded edition contained thousands more entries but incorporated contributions from the Madras Presidency as well as North Ceylon, so that larger corpus is not used as a Sri Lanka-specific measure. Separate Sinhala proverb and Ceylon folk-tale collections document hundreds of additional traditions. Because proverbs encode cultural knowledge and worldview but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 1,873+ is presented as a documented Jaffna Tamil folklore/worldview corpus minimum rather than an exact national count of Sri Lankan superstitions.",https://archive.org/details/ClassifiedCatalogueOfTamilPrintedBooks,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/sri-lankan-superstitions/,414,sri-lankan-superstitions,120,7.0,81.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-046,China,🇨🇳,East Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,46,"≈1,510",1510,approximate,national reference-dictionary entries,Daniel L. Overmyer (2001) — From “Feudal Superstition” to “Popular Beliefs”,Cahiers d’Extrême-Asie / Persée,"Overmyer describes the 883-page Zhongguo minjian xinyang fengsu cidian (Dictionary of Chinese Popular Beliefs and Customs) as containing approximately 1,510 entries in 141 categories. This is a catalogue-entry count, not an exhaustive count of every unique superstition in China.",https://www.persee.fr/doc/asie_0766-1177_2001_num_12_1_1166,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/chinese-superstitions/,170,chinese-superstitions,72,35.0,105.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-047,France,🇫🇷,Europe / Western,Europe,Europe,Ranked,47,"1,500",1500,exact,published beliefs-customs-superstitions collection,"Jean-Michel Le Corfec — Grand-mère y croyait… 1500 superstitions, croyances et coutumes de nos provinces",Éditions Sud Ouest / Jean-Michel Le Corfec,"Jean-Michel Le Corfec’s 2010 collection is explicitly presented as 1,500 superstitions, beliefs and customs from French provinces. Because the 1,500 items mix beliefs, customs and superstitions, this is a published cultural-belief collection count rather than 1,500 unique superstitions.",https://www.furet.com/livres/grand-mere-y-croyait-jean-michel-le-corfec-9782817700557_LO_2.html,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/french-superstitions/,354,french-superstitions,100,46.0,2.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-048,United Kingdom,🇬🇧,Europe / Western,Europe,Europe,Ranked,48,"1,500+",1500,lower_bound,indexed English/British superstition corpus,Jeremy Harte — Superstitious observations: fortune-telling in English folk culture,"Time and Mind / Taylor & Francis; citing Opie & Tatem, Oxford University Press","Harte reports that more than 1,500 superstitions are indexed by Iona Opie and Moira Tatem’s Oxford University Press Dictionary of Superstitions. The underlying reference corpus is primarily English/British historical material and is used here as a published corpus scale, not as an exhaustive count of unique superstitions across every part of the United Kingdom.",https://doi.org/10.1080/1751696X.2018.1433357,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/british-superstitions/,362,british-superstitions,100,54.0,-2.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-049,Bolivia,🇧🇴,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,49,"1,495+",1495,lower_bound,"catalogued Bolivian proverb, phrase & popular-expression entries","Antonio Paredes Candia — Refranes, frases y expresiones populares de Bolivia: 1.495 paremias",Academia Boliviana de la Lengua — Biblioteca Juan Quirós / WorldCat bibliographic corroboration,"Antonio Paredes Candia's Refranes, frases y expresiones populares de Bolivia: 1.495 paremias, published in La Paz in 1976, catalogues 1,495 Bolivian paremias. The Academia Boliviana de la Lengua lists the work in its Juan Quirós Library catalogue under folklore, while WorldCat independently records it as a collection of Bolivian proverbs. Because the corpus includes proverbs, phrases and popular expressions rather than only superstitions, 1,495+ is presented as a documented Bolivian folklore/cultural-expression corpus measure rather than an exact national count of distinct superstitions.",https://search.worldcat.org/title/Refranes-frases-y-expresiones-populares-de-Bolivia-%3A-1.495-paremias/oclc/3174201,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/bolivian-superstitions/,450,bolivian-superstitions,132,-17.0,-65.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-050,Turkey,🇹🇷,Middle East / Anatolia,Asia,Asia|Europe,Ranked,50,"1,380+",1380,lower_bound,documented nationwide,Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı — Bid’at ve Hurafeler,Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet İşleri Başkanlığı),"Official Diyanet material cites a nationwide study identifying approximately 1,380 superstitions (hurafeler) in Türkiye.",https://webdosyasp.diyanet.gov.tr/muftuluk/UserFiles/aydin/UserFiles/Files/B%C4%B0D%20AT%20VE%20HURAFELER_1d5a3561-b26a-487d-8d52-2763dd7f7d9e.pptx,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/turkish-superstitions/,108,turkish-superstitions,100,39.0,35.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-051,Croatia,🇭🇷,Europe / Balkans,Europe,Europe,Ranked,51,"≈1,300",1300,approximate,complete Croatian ethnographic oral-narrative records,Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research — Folk Tale Archive,"Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Croatia","Croatia’s Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research describes its digital Folk Tale Archive as containing approximately 1,300 complete ethnographic records of oral narratives. The associated catalogue also includes around 5,000 bibliographic records of published oral tales, but that larger bibliographic figure is not used here. The approximately 1,300 complete records are therefore presented as a documented Croatian oral-narrative corpus measure rather than a national superstition total.",https://digitalnikatalozi.ief.hr/aath-katalog/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/croatian-superstitions/,514,croatian-superstitions,110,45.16666666,15.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-052,Norway,🇳🇴,Europe / Nordic,Europe,Europe,Ranked,52,"≈1,300",1300,approximate,documented Norwegian legend records in the digital legend archive,University of Oslo — Norwegian Folklore Archives: Folktales and legends,University of Oslo — Norwegian Folklore Archives,"The University of Oslo’s Norwegian Folklore Archives states that its digital archive of legends contains a selection of around 1,300 legend records from the entire country. Because this is a documented archive selection rather than an exhaustive count of unique Norwegian superstitions, ≈1,300 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus measure.",https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/services/knowledge/norwegian-folklore/collections/folktales-and-legends/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/norwegian-superstitions/,518,norwegian-superstitions,100,62.0,10.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-053,Zambia,🇿🇲,South Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,53,"1,286+",1286,lower_bound,academically studied Bemba proverb & worldview entries,Larry L. Niemeyer (1982) — Proverbs: Tools for World View Studies: An Exploratory Comparison of the Bemba of Zambia and the Shona of Zimbabwe,"Portland State University, Department of Anthropology (1982)","Larry L. Niemeyer's 1982 anthropology thesis at Portland State University systematically studied a corpus of 1,286 Bemba proverbs from Zambia as evidence for Bemba cultural worldview, relationships, thought categories and symbolic concepts. Zambia's wider documented folklore corpus is considerably broader: the White Fathers Archive preserves extensive Bemba ethnographies and oral-tradition materials, including a separately catalogued collection of 1,000 Bemba plant names and uses, while classic and modern scholarship documents additional Ila and northern Zambian oral narratives. Because proverbs encode cultural knowledge and worldview but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 1,286+ is presented as a documented Bemba folklore/worldview corpus measure rather than an exact count of distinct Zambian superstitions.",https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/886/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/zambian-superstitions/,402,zambian-superstitions,110,-15.0,30.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-054,Afghanistan,🇦🇫,South Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,54,"1,152+",1152,lower_bound,academically catalogued Afghan Dari proverb entries,Mowlânâ Khâl Mohammad Khaste — Zarbolmathalhâ (Afghan Dari proverb corpus),"Philip G. Kreyenbroek (ed.), Oral Literature of Iranian Languages; Khaste Afghan Dari proverb corpus","Mowlânâ Khâl Mohammad Khaste's Zarbolmathalhâ is documented in Philip G. Kreyenbroek's academic survey Oral Literature of Iranian Languages as a numbered collection of 1,152 Dari proverbs from Afghanistan. The corpus provides a directly countable Afghan Persian/Dari paremiological record and is therefore used here in preference to larger but geographically broader or approximately reported Pashto collections. Because proverbs encode social knowledge, values and cultural worldview but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 1,152+ is presented as an academically catalogued Afghan Dari folklore corpus minimum rather than an exact national count of distinct Afghan superstitions.",https://library.richt.ir/multiMediaFile/4206452-4-1.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/afghan-superstitions/,410,afghan-superstitions,120,33.0,65.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-055,Peru,🇵🇪,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,55,"1,145+",1145,lower_bound,catalogued Peruvian myth & legend entries,"César Toro Montalvo — Mitos y leyendas del Perú (Costa, Sierra y Selva)","César Toro Montalvo, Mitos y leyendas del Perú; volume counts documented in IECTA bibliographic review","César Toro Montalvo's three-volume Mitos y leyendas del Perú catalogues material from Peru's Coast, Highlands and Amazon: 42 myths and 277 legends from the Coast, 289 myths and 305 legends from the Highlands, and 136 myths and 96 legends from the Amazon, for 1,145 catalogued entries in total. The collection draws on documented historical and contemporary sources and includes traditions concerning deities, origins, huacas, magic and sorcery, spirits, demons, monsters and other supernatural themes. Some entries may represent variants or repeated versions of related traditions, so 1,145+ is presented as a documented folklore-corpus measure rather than an exact count of unique Peruvian superstitions.",https://iecta.cl/revistas/volvere_20/libros_nuevos.htm,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/peruvian-superstitions/,398,peruvian-superstitions,72,-10.0,-76.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-056,Ecuador,🇪🇨,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,56,"1,100+",1100,lower_bound,"officially documented Ecuadorian saying, idiom & cultural-expression entries",Fernando Miño-Garcés — Mil cien dichos y modismos del habla ecuatoriana,"Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua — Fernando Miño-Garcés, Mil cien dichos y modismos del habla ecuatoriana","The Academia Ecuatoriana de la Lengua records Fernando Miño-Garcés's 2021 numerary-member address as Mil cien dichos y modismos del habla ecuatoriana, documenting a corpus of 1,100 sayings and idiomatic expressions associated with Ecuadorian speech. Earlier Ecuadorian paremiological and oral-folklore studies provide additional documented material, but these corpora are not added because their categories and entries may overlap. Because sayings and idioms include a broad range of traditional cultural expressions rather than only supernatural beliefs or superstitions, 1,100+ is presented as an officially documented Ecuadorian phraseology/cultural-worldview corpus measure rather than an exact national superstition count.",https://www.academiaecuatorianadelalengua.org/sr-fernando-mino-garces-ph-d/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/ecuadorian-superstitions/,456,ecuadorian-superstitions,120,-2.0,-77.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-057,El Salvador,🇸🇻,Central America,North America,North America,Ranked,57,"1,100+",1100,lower_bound,documented Salvadoran oral-tradition & cultural-worldview narratives,Universidad de El Salvador — Oralitura de El Salvador: Antología de Narrativa Oral Popular,"Universidad de El Salvador — Departamento de Letras, Oralitura de El Salvador","The University of El Salvador's Department of Letters reports that its multi-year oral-tradition research produced a corpus of more than 1,100 narratives collected across roughly 70 Salvadoran municipalities. The project describes Salvadoran oralitura as including myths, legends, enchanted-place traditions, miracles, witchcraft accounts, animal tales and other forms of collective oral memory carrying cultural beliefs and values. Separate Salvadoran Ministry of Culture and Pipil-Izalco collections document additional Nahua mythological and magical-worldview narratives, but these are not added because of possible overlap. Because the 1,100+ corpus spans several narrative genres and is not an inventory of unique superstitions, the figure is presented as a documented Salvadoran oral-tradition/worldview corpus measure rather than an exact national superstition count.",https://es.scribd.com/document/441323201/5-Oralitura-de-El-Salvador-doc,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/salvadoran-superstitions/,473,salvadoran-superstitions,100,13.83333333,-88.91666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-058,Mexico,🇲🇽,Latin America,North America,North America,Ranked,58,"1,100",1100,exact,traditional-medicine reference corpus size,UNAM — Biblioteca Digital de la Medicina Tradicional Mexicana,Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM),"UNAM describes its Digital Library of Traditional Mexican Medicine as containing 1,100 dictionary definitions derived from the 11-volume Biblioteca de la Medicina Mexicana. The corpus includes traditional and popular health beliefs, but 1,100 is a dictionary-definition count, not a count of 1,100 unique Mexican superstitions.",https://www.revista.unam.mx/vol.10/num10/res/res.htm,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/mexican-superstitions/,245,mexican-superstitions,50,23.0,-102.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-059,Jamaica,🇯🇲,Caribbean,North America,North America,Ranked,59,"1,092+",1092,lower_bound,academic proverb/worldview corpus,Aleksandra R. Knapik (2019) — A Study of Jamaican Creole Proverbs from the Perspective of Contact Linguistics,University of Wrocław — Beyond Language academic monograph series,"Aleksandra R. Knapik’s 2019 academic monograph analyzes an explicitly defined corpus of 1,092 Jamaican Creole proverbs, drawing principally on the historical collections of Martha Warren Beckwith and Al Cleary. The corpus is used to examine linguistic and cultural interaction in Jamaica and preserves traditional cultural knowledge and worldview. Earlier Jamaican source material includes dedicated folklore and superstition collections, while later scholarship documents larger approximate saying corpora. Because proverbs encode cultural knowledge but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 1,092+ is presented as a documented Jamaican folklore/worldview corpus minimum rather than an exact national count of distinct superstitions.",https://kmsi.uwr.edu.pl/seria-ksiazkowa-beyond-language/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/jamaican-superstitions/,426,jamaican-superstitions,120,18.25,-77.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-060,Papua New Guinea,🇵🇬,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Ranked,60,"1,047",1047,exact,national folklore narrative corpus,Thomas H. Slone — One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Folktales from Wantok Newspaper,Masalai Press (2001); bibliographically catalogued by the National Library of Australia and reviewed in Asian Ethnology,"The two-volume collection presents the complete set of 1,047 folktales originally published in Papua New Guinea’s Wantok newspaper from 1972 through 1997. Descriptions of the collection state that all Papua New Guinea provinces are represented and approximately 35% of the country’s roughly 700 language/culture groups are represented; the volumes are indexed by folklore motif, village, language/culture group and province. The 1,047 figure is a folklore-narrative corpus count, not a count of 1,047 unique superstitions.",https://books.google.com/books?id=8BePAAAAMAAJ,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/papua-new-guineas-superstitions/,257,papua-new-guineas-superstitions,64,-6.0,147.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-061,Bahrain,🇧🇭,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Ranked,61,"1,001",1001,exact,documented Bahraini folktales from a national field survey,University of Bahrain — Bahraini Folktales: One Thousand and One Tales,University of Bahrain — Bahraini Folktales: One Thousand and One Tales,"The University of Bahrain reports that Bahraini Folktales: One Thousand and One Tales was produced through a ten-year field-collection project (2007–2017) involving 100 university students. The resulting five-volume encyclopedia constitutes the first comprehensive field survey of Bahraini folktales in the Kingdom and contains 1,001 tales. Because the corpus is a national collection of folk narratives rather than an inventory of 1,001 unique modern superstitions, the figure is presented as a documented Bahraini folktale corpus measure.",https://www.uob.edu.bh/uob-announces-second-phase-of-digitizing-bahraini-folktales-with-ai/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/bahraini-superstitions/,490,bahraini-superstitions,60,26.0,50.55,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-062,Bosnia and Herzegovina,🇧🇦,Europe / Balkans,Europe,Europe,Ranked,62,"1,000+",1000,lower_bound,oral-literary lyrical creations in a documented Bosnia and Herzegovina folklore manuscript,National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina — Smajl O. Bradarić folklore manuscript,National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina — Folklore Archive,"The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina describes Smajl O. Bradarić’s manuscript from Derventa and surrounding villages as containing over one thousand oral literary lyrical creations collected during a decade of fieldwork. A related museum description says the handwritten collection contains almost one thousand lyric ballads plus additional lyric narrative songs. Because this is a defined regional oral-literature corpus rather than a complete national count of Bosnian superstitions, 1,000+ is presented as a documented folklore-corpus minimum.",https://zemaljskimuzej.ba/en/about-the-national-museum-of-bosnia-and-herzegovina-2/publications/theme-ethnology/folk-tales-from-derventa-and-its-surroundings/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/bosnian-superstitions/,494,bosnian-superstitions,90,44.0,18.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-063,Chad,🇹🇩,Central Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,63,"1,000+",1000,lower_bound,documented Mbay proverb & oral-wisdom entries,Yves de la Villéon — Proverbes Mbay ou la sagesse africaine,"Centre d'Études Linguistiques, Sarh; bibliographic record in Journal des Africanistes / Persée","Yves de la Villéon's Proverbes Mbay ou la sagesse africaine preserves more than 1,000 Mbay proverbs and sayings collected in Chad between 1967 and 1970. The original Mbay proverb collection was published through the Centre d'Études Linguistiques in Sarh and is independently recorded in the Journal des Africanistes bibliography. The corpus represents orally transmitted Mbay wisdom concerning family relations, social life, wealth, poverty, conduct and other areas of traditional knowledge. A separate published Ngambay collection from southwestern Chad contains more than 870 additional proverbs. Because proverbs encode cultural knowledge and worldview but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 1,000+ is presented as a documented Chadian Mbay folklore/oral-wisdom corpus minimum rather than an exact national count of distinct superstitions.",https://www.persee.fr/doc/jafr_0399-0346_1977_num_47_2_1800,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/chadian-superstitions/,422,chadian-superstitions,108,15.0,19.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-064,Colombia,🇨🇴,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,64,"1,000+",1000,lower_bound,documented Colombian proverb & cultural-worldview entries,Luis Alberto Acuña — Refranero colombiano (1947),"Luis Alberto Acuña — Refranero colombiano, Bogotá (1947), catalogued 1,000-proverb corpus","Luis Alberto Acuña's Refranero colombiano, published in Bogotá in 1947, is bibliographically catalogued as a collection of 1,000 Colombian proverbs. The work belongs to Colombia's established folklore and paremiological tradition, alongside numerous later regional proverb and folklore collections. Because proverbs preserve popular knowledge, social attitudes and cultural worldview but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 1,000+ is presented as a documented Colombian folklore/worldview corpus measure rather than an exact national count of distinct superstitions.",https://biblioteca.cuenca.gob.ec/opac_css/index.php?id=14076&lvl=author_see,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/colombian-superstitions/,436,colombian-superstitions,120,4.0,-72.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-065,Haiti,🇭🇹,Caribbean,North America,North America,Ranked,65,"1,000+",1000,lower_bound,religious-cultural pantheon corpus,"Ama Mazama — “Lwa,” Encyclopedia of African Religion",SAGE Reference — Encyclopedia of African Religion,"The Encyclopedia of African Religion states that there are more than 1,000 divinities, or lwa, in Vodou, grouped in 17 pantheons. This is a scholarly Vodou pantheon measure and must not be interpreted as a count of 1,000 unique Haitian superstitions.",https://sk.sagepub.com/ency/edvol/africanreligion/chpt/lwa,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/haitian-superstitions/,322,haitian-superstitions,60,19.0,-72.41666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-066,Italy,🇮🇹,Europe / Mediterranean,Europe,Europe,Ranked,66,"1,000+",1000,lower_bound,published Italian-superstition collection,Andrea Malossini — Superstizioni italiane,Andrea Malossini / published Italian superstition collection,"The bibliographic description of Andrea Malossini’s Superstizioni italiane states that the book collects more than 1,000 Italian superstitions and presents the beliefs systematically with brief explanations of their origins and meanings. This is a published collection count, not a theoretically exhaustive national total.",https://books.google.com/books/about/Superstizioni_italiane.html?id=0YCFE5Sfw2IC,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/italian-superstitions/,352,italian-superstitions,100,42.83333333,12.83333333,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-067,Luxembourg,🇱🇺,Europe / Western,Europe,Europe,Ranked,67,"1,000+",1000,lower_bound,documented Luxembourgish legend & supernatural-folklore narratives,Nicolas Gredt — Sagenschatz des Luxemburger Landes,Institut Grand-Ducal — Nicolas Gredt legend collection,"Institut Grand-Ducal describes Nicolas Gredt's Sagenschatz des Luxemburger Landes as the most comprehensive Luxembourg legend collection and states that it contains well over 1,000 contributions gathered over many years from across the country. The corpus consists of Luxembourgish ghost stories, sagas, legends and related supernatural folklore traditions, organised with motif and subject indexes. Because the collection represents documented legend and supernatural-folklore narratives rather than 1,000 unique modern superstitions, 1,000+ is presented as a documented Luxembourgish folklore/worldview corpus minimum rather than an exact national superstition count.",https://igd-leo.lu/publications/sagenschatz-des-luxemburger-landes/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/luxembourgish-superstitions/,553,luxembourgish-superstitions,20,49.75,6.16666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-068,Poland,🇵🇱,Europe / Central,Europe,Europe,Ranked,68,"1,000+",1000,lower_bound,academically documented Polish regional folk-tradition records,Otto Knoop — Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) folk-tradition corpus; Słownik polskiej bajki ludowej,Nicolaus Copernicus University — Słownik polskiej bajki ludowej; Otto Knoop Wielkopolska corpus,"Otto Knoop documented more than 1,000 regional folk traditions from Greater Poland (Wielkopolska). The academic Dictionary of the Polish Folk Tale notes that his corpus preserved numerous belief legends involving supernatural beings such as południce, witches and werewolves, with belief, historical and local legends prominent among the surviving narratives. Poland's wider folk-belief record is substantially larger: the Polish Ethnographic Atlas preserves thousands of nationwide ethnographic source materials and conducted systematic folk-demonology research across roughly 340 localities. Because Knoop's corpus also contains historical and local narratives, 1,000+ is presented as a documented regional folklore-corpus minimum rather than an exact count of unique Polish superstitions.",https://bajka.umk.pl/slownik/lista-hasel/haslo/?id=272,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/polish-superstitions/,404,polish-superstitions,108,52.0,20.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-069,Cyprus,🇨🇾,Europe / Mediterranean,Europe,Asia|Europe,Ranked,69,961,961,exact,"digitized folklore CD-ROMs containing interviews, stories, poems and songs",University of Cyprus Library — Folklore Archive digitization project,University of Cyprus Library / Centre for Scientific Research Folklore Archive,"The University of Cyprus Library states that the Folklore Archive includes 961 CD-ROMs containing interviews, stories, poems and songs collected between 1960 and 1994, together with 200 manuscript volumes. Because 961 is a digitized archival-carrier count covering multiple folklore genres rather than 961 unique Cypriot superstitions, the value is presented as a documented folklore-archive corpus measure.",https://library.ucy.ac.cy/%CE%AD%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B1-%CF%88%CE%B7%CF%86%CE%B9%CE%BF%CF%80%CE%BF%CE%AF%CE%B7%CF%83%CE%B7%CF%82/?lang=en,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/cypriot-superstitions/,527,cypriot-superstitions,90,35.0,33.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-070,Indonesia,🇮🇩,Southeast Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,70,801+,801,lower_bound,regional field-study minimum,Nur (2025) — Pamali dan Konstruksi Gender dalam Masyarakat Banten,"Jurnal Harkat, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta","A 2025 field study published in Jurnal Harkat reports 801 forms of pamali/kapamalian collected from 86 different people in Banten. The 801+ figure is a documented regional minimum for Indonesia, not a nationwide total.",https://journal.uinjkt.ac.id/index.php/psga/article/download/38604/19117,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/indonesian-superstitions/,198,indonesian-superstitions,40,-5.0,120.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-071,Nepal,🇳🇵,South Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,71,800+,800,lower_bound,national folk-belief reference corpus,"Nepal Academy — Nepali Lokbishwas (Nepali Folk Beliefs), Dr. Shadanand Paudyal",Nepal Academy (नेपाल प्रज्ञा–प्रतिष्ठान) research project,"The Nepal Academy research project Nepali Lokbishwas is reported as documenting more than 800 Nepali folk beliefs across chapters 2–9, covering eight thematic areas. The collection includes both ordinary or positive folk beliefs and beliefs described as superstition, so 800+ is a folk-belief corpus count rather than a count of 800+ unique superstitions.",https://newsofnepal.com/2021/12/15/456604/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/nepali-superstitions/,325,nepali-superstitions,100,28.0,84.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-072,Germany,🇩🇪,Europe / Central,Europe,Europe,Ranked,72,783+,783,lower_bound,numbered German folk-superstition sections,Adolf Wuttke — Der deutsche Volksaberglaube der Gegenwart,Adolf Wuttke / Internet Archive public-domain edition,"Wuttke’s systematic compendium of German folk superstition is organized through §783 and draws on reports and collections from many regions of Germany. Individual numbered sections can contain multiple beliefs, so 783+ is a conservative corpus measure rather than an exhaustive total of unique German superstitions.",https://archive.org/details/volksglaube-bw,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/german-superstitions/,360,german-superstitions,100,51.0,9.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-073,Vietnam,🇻🇳,Southeast Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,73,761+,761,lower_bound,academically catalogued Vietnamese folk-narrative types,Nguyễn Thị Huế et al. — Từ điển type truyện dân gian Việt Nam (Dictionary of Vietnamese Folk-Narrative Types),Vietnamese folklore research project; Social Sciences Publishing House catalogue and Institute of Literature/VASS context,"Từ điển type truyện dân gian Việt Nam (Dictionary of Vietnamese Folk-Narrative Types), compiled by Nguyễn Thị Huế and colleagues through a Vietnamese folklore research project, catalogues 761 folk-narrative types as 761 dictionary entries. The entries cover Vietnamese myths, legends, fairy tales, fables and other traditional narratives, recording variants, sources and geographic distribution. Because a narrative type may contain supernatural, religious or folk-belief material without constituting a single unique superstition, 761+ is presented as an academically catalogued Vietnamese folklore corpus measure rather than an exact count of distinct Vietnamese superstitions.",https://toquoc.vn/tu-dien-type-truyen-dan-gian-viet-nam-99118325.htm,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/vietnamese-superstitions/,396,vietnamese-superstitions,100,16.16666666,107.83333333,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-074,Republic of Congo,🇨🇬,Central Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,74,700+,700,lower_bound,documented Congo-Brazzaville multi-ethnic proverb & cultural-worldview entries,Robert Tinou — 700 proverbes du Congo Brazzaville (2010),Robert Tinou — Congo-Brazzaville multi-ethnic proverb corpus; contemporary Congo-Brazzaville cultural reporting,"Robert Tinou's 2010 700 proverbes du Congo Brazzaville documents a collection of 700 proverbs associated with communities across Congo-Brazzaville; contemporary reporting on the publication states that material was drawn from 52 ethnic groups and organised around themes including God, danger, family, authority and solidarity. A later independently published corpus by Tinou contains 1,700 Vili proverbs from the Kouilou/Loango area, demonstrating a substantially larger local oral tradition, but that higher subgroup-specific figure is not used as the national measure. Because proverbs encode cultural knowledge and worldview but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 700+ is presented as a conservative Congo-Brazzaville folklore/worldview corpus minimum rather than an exact national superstition count.",https://cultureducongobrazzaville.blogspot.com/2010/11/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/congolese-republic-superstitions/,462,congolese-republic-superstitions,120,-1.0,15.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-075,Eswatini,🇸🇿,South Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,75,670,670,exact,catalogued records in the curated Swaziland Oral History Project collection,Five Hundred Year Archive — Swaziland Oral History Project,Five Hundred Year Archive / University of Cape Town / Wits Historical Papers,"The Five Hundred Year Archive’s curated Swaziland Oral History Project catalogue displays 670 records. The collection brings together notebooks, edited typescripts, audio files, index cards, folders and other oral-history materials originating from the National Archives in Lobamba and related research collections. Because the 670 records span several archival formats and oral-history materials rather than unique Swazi superstitions, 670 is presented as a documented oral-tradition archive measure.",https://fhya.uct.ac.za/fhya-curation-of-a-selection-of-the-swaziland-oral-history-project-from-historical-papers-university-of-the-witwatersrand-johannesburg,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/swazi-superstitions/,500,swazi-superstitions,84,-26.5,31.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-076,South Korea,🇰🇷,East Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,76,647+,647,lower_bound,officially catalogued Korean shamanic folk-belief headwords,National Folk Museum of Korea — Korean Folk Beliefs Dictionary: Shamanism,National Folk Museum of Korea; 647-headword catalogue metadata verified via KOS,"The National Folk Museum of Korea's 2009 two-volume Korean Folk Beliefs Dictionary: Shamanism organizes Korean shamanic belief into 647 headwords across categories including rituals, deities and spirits, shamanic myths, ritual music and dance, shrines, costumes, ritual tools, offerings, documentary materials, practitioners and terminology. Because encyclopedia headwords can represent rituals, beings, objects, places, people or terms rather than unique superstitions, 647+ is presented as an official folk-belief corpus measure rather than an exact count of distinct South Korean superstitions.",https://openarchives.net/kos/%ED%95%9C%EA%B5%AD%EB%AF%BC%EC%86%8D%EC%8B%A0%EC%95%99%EC%82%AC%EC%A0%84%3A%EB%AC%B4%EC%86%8D%EC%8B%A0%EC%95%99,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/korean-superstitions/,390,korean-superstitions,65,37.0,127.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-077,Mozambique,🇲🇿,South Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,77,601+,601,lower_bound,documented Changana proverb & cultural-worldview entries,Armando Ribeiro — 601 Provérbios Changana,Academic study of Armando Ribeiro’s Changana linguistic and cultural documentation in southern Mozambique; 601 Provérbios Changana (1971; 2nd ed. 1989),"Armando Ribeiro's 601 Provérbios Changana, first published in 1971 and issued in a second edition in 1989, preserves an explicitly numbered corpus of 601 Changana proverbs. Modern scholarship on the history of Mozambican Bantu linguistics identifies Ribeiro as a long-term researcher of Changana language, customs and culture in southern Mozambique and recognizes the proverb collection as part of his documentation of Xichangana oral tradition. Separate scholarship records hundreds of additional Makhuwa proverbs and extensive oral traditions in other Mozambican communities. Because proverbs transmit cultural knowledge and worldview but are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 601+ is presented as a documented Mozambican Changana folklore/worldview corpus minimum rather than an exact national count of distinct superstitions.",https://www.academia.edu/170104397/Tone_Ideophones_and_Orthographic_Controversies_Missionary_Linguistics_Colonial_Ideology_and_the_Making_of_Mozambican_Bantu_Linguistics_in_Ribeiro_s_Gram%C3%A1tica_Changana_1965_,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/mozambican-superstitions/,428,mozambican-superstitions,104,-18.25,35.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-078,Finland,🇫🇮,Europe / Nordic,Europe,Europe,Ranked,78,600,600,exact,Finnish folktales in a documented archival research corpus,University of Helsinki / Finnish Literature Society archives — 600 Finnish folktales research corpus,University of Helsinki / Finnish Literature Society archives,"A University of Helsinki research paper states that its source material is a corpus of 600 Finnish folktales concerning the geographically mobile Roma, drawn from the Finnish Literature Society archives and largely collected between 1930 and 1950. Because this is a defined thematic archival corpus rather than a complete national count of unique Finnish superstitions, 600 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus minimum.",https://tuhat.helsinki.fi/ws/portalfiles/portal/168242910/StarkEija_RevisedVersion2_CDS.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/finnish-superstitions/,539,finnish-superstitions,70,64.0,26.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-079,Madagascar,🇲🇬,Africa / Indian Ocean,Africa,Africa,Ranked,79,600+,600,lower_bound,documented Malagasy fady/taboo inventory,Jørgen Ruud — Taboo: A Study of Malagasy Customs and Beliefs,"L’Homme / Persée; Jørgen Ruud, Oslo University Press","A scholarly review describes Ruud’s work as an inventory of roughly 600 prohibitions (fady/taboos) collected among different ethnic groups of Madagascar. The inventory is explicitly described as non-exhaustive, so 600+ is used as a documented corpus minimum rather than a final national total.",https://www.persee.fr/doc/hom_0439-4216_1964_num_4_1_366621,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/malagasy-superstitions/,356,malagasy-superstitions,100,-20.0,47.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-080,Cuba,🇨🇺,Caribbean,North America,North America,Ranked,80,550+,550,lower_bound,academically catalogued Afro-Cuban ritual-plant folk-belief entries,Morton Marks (1987) — Exploring El Monte: Ethnobotany and the Afro-Cuban Science of the Concrete,"Morton Marks (1987), En torno a Lydia Cabrera; underlying corpus: Lydia Cabrera, El Monte","Lydia Cabrera's foundational ethnographic work El Monte documents Afro-Cuban religion, magic, folklore and ethnobotanical knowledge. Morton Marks' 1987 academic analysis of El Monte identifies more than 550 plant entries and explains that complete entries can include Spanish common names, scientific classifications, Yoruba and Kongo names, an orisha owner, and magical and/or medicinal uses. Because these are ethnobotanical entries embedded in Afro-Cuban ritual and folk-belief systems rather than 550 uniquely defined national superstitions, 550+ is presented as an academically catalogued corpus minimum rather than an exhaustive total for Cuba.",https://www.academia.edu/1606879/Exploring_El_Monte_Ethnobotany_and_the_Afro_Cuban_Science_of_the_Concrete,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/cuban-superstitions/,392,cuban-superstitions,80,21.5,-80.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-081,Ukraine,🇺🇦,Europe / Eastern,Europe,Europe,Ranked,81,500+,500,lower_bound,documented Ukrainian folk-belief & demonology texts,Mykhailo Nazarenko — Тілько істинна правда. З українських повір’їв,Vydavnytstvo Staroho Leva — Mykhailo Nazarenko Ukrainian folk-belief anthology,"Mykhailo Nazarenko's Тілько істинна правда. З українських повір’їв brings together more than 500 short Ukrainian folk-belief and demonological texts selected from about 100 published sources spanning 1853–2022, with material representing regions from Zakarpattia and Polissia to Slobozhanshchyna and Kherson. Earlier historical collections by Volodymyr Hnatiuk contain an even larger body of Ukrainian demonological narratives, but the larger historical total is not used as the headline figure because it includes regional variants and material associated with the wider historical Ukrainian ethnographic area. Therefore 500+ is presented as a conservative documented Ukrainian folk-belief/demonology corpus minimum rather than an exact count of unique superstitions practiced in modern Ukraine.",https://starylev.com.ua/blogs/u-shho-viryly-nasi-prashhury-vidguk-na-tilko-istynna-pravda-z-ukrayinskyx-poviryiv,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/ukrainian-superstitions/,472,ukrainian-superstitions,110,49.0,32.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-082,Myanmar,🇲🇲,Southeast Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,82,496+,496,lower_bound,academically catalogued Burmese proverb & cultural-worldview entries,Hla Pe — Myanmar (Burmese) Proverbs,Hla Pe — published Myanmar (Burmese) proverb corpus; 496 entries,"Hla Pe's Myanmar (Burmese) Proverbs contains an explicitly documented collection of 496 Burmese proverbs, arranged under themes including human characteristics, behaviour, relationships, the world and man, with explanatory notes and English translations. The corpus preserves traditional Burmese cultural knowledge and social worldview. Because proverbs are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 496+ is presented as a documented Burmese folklore/worldview corpus measure rather than an exact national count of distinct superstitions.",https://books.google.com/books/about/Myanmar_Burmese_Proverbs.html?id=Vw2HrgEACAAJ,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/burmese-superstitions/,442,burmese-superstitions,120,21.9162,95.956,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-083,Comoros,🇰🇲,East Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,83,460+,460,lower_bound,documented Comorian superstitions,Mahamoud M'Saidie — Superstitions des Comores,"Éditions du Cygne — Mahamoud M'Saidie, Superstitions des Comores","Mahamoud M'Saidie's Superstitions des Comores is described by its publisher as containing more than 460 Comorian superstitions translated, classified and analysed. The collection covers themes such as the evil eye, bad luck, curses, jinn, ghosts, death, women, children and beliefs concerning the body. Because the publisher explicitly states the corpus size and the work is devoted directly to Comorian superstitions, 460+ is presented as a documented corpus count rather than an editorial estimate; it should not be read as an exhaustive count of every unique belief practiced across all islands and communities in Comoros.",https://editionsducygne.com/editions-du-cygne-superstitions-comores.html,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/comorian-superstitions/,512,comorian-superstitions,34,-12.16666666,44.25,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-084,Bhutan,🇧🇹,South Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,84,400+,400,lower_bound,documented popular Bhutanese beliefs,Karma Pedey — Ta She Gha Chha: The Broken Saddle and Other Popular Bhutanese Beliefs,"RABSEL / Centre for Educational Research and Development, Paro College of Education — review of Karma Pedey's Bhutanese belief corpus","Karma Pedey's Ta She Gha Chha: The Broken Saddle and Other Popular Bhutanese Beliefs comprehensively documents more than 400 popular beliefs collected from across Bhutan. A book review first published in RABSEL, the CERD Educational Journal, describes the corpus as covering logical and illogical, religious and secular beliefs, including supernatural interpretations, auspicious and inauspicious signs and culturally transmitted explanations. Because the book explicitly catalogues popular beliefs rather than estimating a national total, 400+ is presented as a documented Bhutanese belief-corpus minimum rather than an exhaustive count of every belief practiced in Bhutan.",https://needrupzangpo.blogspot.com/2012/03/ta-she-gha-chha-book-review.html,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/bhutanese-superstitions/,448,bhutanese-superstitions,108,27.5,90.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-085,Kyrgyzstan,🇰🇬,Central Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,85,399,399,exact,digitized Kyrgyz folklore tale items from academic volumes,Mozilla Data Collective — Kyrgyz Folklore Text Corpus,Mozilla Data Collective / Central Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic,"The Kyrgyz Folklore Text Corpus lists 399 individual items in its tales file. The dataset states that the texts were digitized from academic folklore volumes published in Bishkek in 2016–2017 and sourced from the electronic collections of the Central Scientific Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Kyrgyz Republic. Because 399 is the item total for a defined tale corpus rather than an exhaustive national superstition count, it is presented as a documented folklore-corpus measure.",https://mozilladatacollective.com/datasets/cmlqoukmi000hnr07cprdmxsc,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/kyrgyz-superstitions/,516,kyrgyz-superstitions,110,41.0,75.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-086,Georgia,🇬🇪,Caucasus,Asia,Asia|Europe,Ranked,86,372+,372,lower_bound,"documented Georgian omen, taboo & folk-belief advice texts",Elguja Dadunashvili & Agnes Korn — Weise Frauen und geheimnisvolle Zeichen: Texte zum Volksglauben in Georgien,"Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag — Dadunashvili & Korn, Georgian folk-belief text collection","Elguja Dadunashvili and Agnes Korn's Weise Frauen und geheimnisvolle Zeichen: Texte zum Volksglauben in Georgien presents a structured collection of 372 transmitted Georgian texts classified as omens, taboos and behavioural advice. The publisher describes the material as drawn from most regions of Georgia, with many records originating in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century regional sources and archival holdings of the Rustaveli Institute for Georgian Literature in Tbilisi. Because these short texts document popular belief, omens, prohibitions and traditional advice rather than 372 unique modern superstitions, 372+ is presented as a documented Georgian folk-belief corpus minimum rather than an exhaustive national superstition total.",https://reichert-verlag.de/en/9783895005923_weise_frauen_und_geheimnisvolle_zeichen-detail/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/georgian-superstitions/,483,georgian-superstitions,84,42.0,43.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-087,Vanuatu,🇻🇺,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Ranked,87,329+,329,lower_bound,academically recorded Vanuatu oral-tradition narratives,"Sandrine Bessis & Alexandre François (2025) — Myths, tales or history? On two storytelling traditions in Vanuatu",Te Reo — The Journal of the Linguistic Society of New Zealand (2025),"A 2025 study by Sandrine Bessis and Alexandre François in Te Reo, based on long-term fieldwork in Vanuatu, reports a corpus of 329 full-length Vanuatu oral-tradition narratives recorded by François, totalling 44 hours, with 218 fully transcribed stories across 19 languages. The corpus encompasses myths, folktales and traditional narratives, including traditions involving spirits, supernatural beings and restricted ritual or sorcery knowledge. A separate Shepherd Islands corpus collected by Bessis contains more than 100 additional narratives. Because these narratives are not equivalent to unique superstitions, 329+ is presented as an academically documented oral-tradition corpus measure rather than an exact national superstition count.",https://nzlingsoc.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/3-9-Bessis-Franc%CC%A7ois-2025-Myths-tales-or-history.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/ni-vanuatu-superstitions/,394,ni-vanuatu-superstitions,65,-16.0,167.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-088,Costa Rica,🇨🇷,Central America,North America,North America,Ranked,88,304,304,exact,documented Costa Rican horror & supernatural oral-tradition stories,Universidad de Costa Rica — Cuentos terroríficos del antiguo Juan Viñas,Universidad de Costa Rica — Kérwá repository,"The University of Costa Rica repository records María Quesada Vargas’s Cuentos terroríficos del antiguo Juan Viñas corpus as containing 304 horror stories narrated by 16 women and 32 men born in or long associated with Juan Viñas and nearby communities in Cartago, Costa Rica. The collection includes supernatural, omen, spirit, magical and religious motifs, but it is a regional oral-tradition corpus rather than a national inventory of 304 unique Costa Rican superstitions. The figure is therefore presented as a documented regional Costa Rican narrative corpus measure.",https://kerwa.ucr.ac.cr/items/49786e44-58d5-4168-83f8-2bacc642019a,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/costa-rican-superstitions/,464,costa-rican-superstitions,100,10.0,-84.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-089,Azerbaijan,🇦🇿,Caucasus,Asia,Asia|Europe,Ranked,89,300+,300,lower_bound,officially collected Azerbaijani mythological & cultural-worldview texts,"Institute of Folklore, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences — Qarabağ: folklor da bir tarixdir","Institute of Folklore, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS/AMEA) — Karabakh folklore project","The Institute of Folklore of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences reports that its multi-volume Karabakh folklore project collected more than 300 mythological texts from the region, separately from approximately 1,250 legends and traditions, 400+ tales, 500+ anecdotes, 750+ proverbs and around 2,500 bayatı. Those additional genres are deliberately not added to the figure. Azerbaijani academic research and subsequent regional folklore collections independently document extensive folk-belief, ritual, omen and mythological traditions across other parts of Azerbaijan. Because the 300+ corpus represents mythological texts collected in one major regional project rather than 300 unique national superstitions, 300+ is presented as an officially documented Azerbaijani mythological/worldview corpus minimum, not an exhaustive count of distinct superstitions practiced in Azerbaijan.",https://arxiv.folklor.az/qarabaq-folkloru.htm,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/azerbaijani-superstitions/,467,azerbaijani-superstitions,72,40.5,47.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-090,Botswana,🇧🇼,South Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,90,300+,300,lower_bound,academically documented Batswana magical-practice texts,Jacobus Louw Reyneke — Towery by die Tswana met besondere verwysing na die Kgatla-bagaKgafela (1971),University of Pretoria — doctoral research and Tswana ethnographic corpus,"Jacobus Louw Reyneke's 1971 University of Pretoria doctoral research on Batswana bongaka and magical practice is based on more than 300 verbatim Tswana-language texts dictated by 16 dingaka during fieldwork conducted between 1952 and 1968. The corpus includes material from Kgatla-bagaKgafela practitioners as well as Ngwato, Kwena, Tlokwa, Tlhako and other Tswana groups, and the study explicitly covers Batswana communities in both Botswana and the former Transvaal. Separate University of Pretoria archival material documents Tswana omens and related beliefs, while modern research in Botswana continues to record Setswana meila, traditional taboos and protective beliefs. Because the 300+ corpus crosses the modern Botswana–South Africa boundary and records magical-practice texts rather than 300 unique national superstitions, it is presented as a documented Batswana magical-practice corpus measure, not an exact count of distinct superstitions practiced in Botswana.",https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/25688,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/botswanan-superstitions/,461,botswanan-superstitions,110,-22.0,24.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-091,Israel,🇮🇱,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Ranked,91,300+,300,lower_bound,documented folk narratives from the Bet She’an Israeli fieldwork project,"University of Haifa — Israel Folktale Archives, Bet She’an fieldwork project",University of Haifa — Israel Folktale Archives,"The University of Haifa's Israel Folktale Archives reports that its 1977–1979 Bet She’an Folktale Narrative Collection Project recorded more than 300 folk narratives, including 210 during an intensive fieldwork period from 17 January to 3 February 1978. Because this is a documented local Israeli fieldwork corpus rather than an exhaustive national total, 300+ is presented as a conservative documented minimum rather than as the number of unique Israeli superstitions.",https://lib.haifa.ac.il/asai/en/fieldwork/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/israeli-superstitions/,499,israeli-superstitions,100,31.5,34.75,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-092,Micronesia,🇫🇲,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Ranked,92,300+,300,lower_bound,indexed Micronesian folktales in the Indiana University Folklore Archives,Indiana University Archives — Roger Mitchell collection of Micronesian folktales,Indiana University Archives — Roger Mitchell Collection C653,"Indiana University Archives states that the Roger Mitchell collection contains over 300 indexed folktales from the Micronesian Islands documented in 1963–1964 and 1970–1971. Each text records collection metadata and a major Motif-Index number, and represented topics include origin myths, deities, heroes, monsters, childbirth, marriage and other cultural-worldview themes. Because the archive covers the wider Micronesian Islands rather than functioning as an exhaustive national catalogue for the Federated States of Micronesia, 300+ is presented as a documented regional Micronesian folklore corpus measure.",https://archives.iu.edu/catalog/InU-Ar-VAD8297,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/micronesian-superstitions/,470,micronesian-superstitions,56,6.91666666,158.25,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-093,Spain,🇪🇸,Europe / Southern,Europe,Europe,Ranked,93,290+,290,lower_bound,numbered Spanish regional superstition corpus lower bound,Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes — Las supersticiones en Ceuta,Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes,"The study Las supersticiones en Ceuta explicitly enumerates 290 superstition entries, ending at item no. 290. Because this corpus concerns Ceuta rather than every region of Spain, 290+ is presented as a conservative documented Spanish lower bound, not as an exhaustive national total.",https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/las-supersticiones-en-ceuta/html/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/spanish-superstitions/,378,spanish-superstitions,63,40.0,-4.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-094,Ethiopia,🇪🇹,East Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,94,289,289,exact,nationwide traditional-folktale corpus,Ethiopian Folktales — Elizabeth Laird with Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education and the British Council,Ethiopian Folktales project / Ministry of Education / British Council,"The Ethiopian Folktales corpus contains 289 traditional tales collected between 1997 and 2001 from every region of Ethiopia. The collection includes supernatural and belief-related material, but the figure represents folklore narratives, not 289 unique superstitions.",https://ethiopianfolktales.com/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/ethiopian-superstitions/,324,ethiopian-superstitions,64,8.0,38.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-095,Egypt,🇪🇬,North Africa,Africa,Africa|Asia,Ranked,95,274,274,exact,national field-study inventory,National Center for Social and Criminological Research — Egyptian superstition field study,National Center for Social and Criminological Research (Egypt); count reported by Al-Rai,"A nationwide Egyptian field study by the National Center for Social and Criminological Research was reported as identifying 274 superstitions circulating across Egyptian communities, including villages, cities and settlements. The figure is the study inventory, not a claim that Egyptian culture contains only 274 superstitions.",https://www.alraimedia.com/article/138879/فنون/274-خرافة-يعرفها-المصريون-الأخيرة,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/egyptian-superstitions/,200,egyptian-superstitions,60,27.0,30.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-096,Cambodia,🇰🇭,Southeast Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,96,250+,250,lower_bound,academically published Khmer proverb entries,"Dr. Pannetier — Sentences et proverbes cambodgiens (BEFEO, 1915)",Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient (BEFEO) — Pannetier's numbered Khmer proverb corpus (1915),"Dr. Pannetier's Sentences et proverbes cambodgiens, published in the Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient in 1915, presents an explicitly numbered corpus of 250 Cambodian/Khmer sayings and proverbs with translation and commentary; the published sequence ends at entry 250. Some entries preserve traditional omen and belief material, but the entire collection is not a catalogue of superstitions. Therefore 250+ is presented as an academically published Khmer folklore corpus measure rather than an exact national count of Cambodian superstitions.",https://www.persee.fr/doc/befeo_0336-1519_1915_num_15_1_5235,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/cambodian-superstitions/,444,cambodian-superstitions,108,13.0,105.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-097,Syria,🇸🇾,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Ranked,97,250+,250,lower_bound,collected Syrian folktales from the Hakawati cultural-heritage project,Cultural Heritage without Borders — Timeless Tales: Folktales Told by Syrian Refugees (Hakawati project),Cultural Heritage without Borders / Hakawati project,"The Hakawati project, initiated by Cultural Heritage without Borders in 2014 with partner organizations in the region, reports that six Syrian researchers working in Syria and Lebanon collected more than 250 traditional stories from Syrians. Twenty-one were ultimately selected for the bilingual Timeless Tales anthology after editorial shortlisting. Because the 250+ figure is a collected folktale corpus rather than an exhaustive count of unique Syrian superstitions, it is presented as a documented Syrian oral-tradition corpus minimum.",https://pubhtml5.com/hmeo/zeni//basic/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/syrian-superstitions/,460,syrian-superstitions,120,35.0,38.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-098,Slovakia,🇸🇰,Europe / Central,Europe,Europe,Ranked,98,242,242,exact,documented Slovak folk-prose narratives in the Samuel Cambel corpus,Slovak Academy of Sciences,,"The Slovak Academy of Sciences' monograph profile for Katarína Žeňuchová's study of Samuel Cambel's folk-prose collection reports 123 records from Eastern Slovakia and 119 prose texts from Central Slovakia, for a combined corpus of 242 narratives. The collection includes magic, legendary, humorous, commemorative and superstitious narratives among other folk-prose genres. Because the 242 texts span multiple narrative genres rather than 242 unique Slovak superstitions, the value is presented as a documented folk-prose corpus measure.",https://www.sav.sk/?doc=activity-monography-response-page&institute_no=32&lang=en&monography_id=448,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/slovak-superstitions/,530,slovak-superstitions,85,48.66666666,19.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-099,Liechtenstein,🇱🇮,Europe / Central,Europe,Europe,Ranked,99,236,236,exact,documented Liechtenstein supernatural & historical legend records,Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein — Sagen und Legenden,Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein,"The official Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein states that Otto Seger's foundational Sagen aus Liechtenstein contains 205 legends and that a later supplement adds 31 more, yielding a total of 236 documented Liechtenstein legend records. The lexicon describes the corpus as covering dragons and the devil, giants and dwarfs, treasure seeking, witchcraft, Schrättlig and Doggi figures, night spirits, ghosts and other supernatural as well as historical traditions. Because this is a documented legend corpus rather than a count of unique modern superstitions, 236 is presented as an exact documented Liechtenstein legend record total.",https://historisches-lexikon.li/Sagen_und_Legenden,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/liechtensteiner-superstitions/,560,liechtensteiner-superstitions,15,47.26666666,9.53333333,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-100,Armenia,🇦🇲,Caucasus,Asia,Asia|Europe,Ranked,100,229,229,exact,classified folklore collections in Armenia’s national academic folklore archive,Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Armenia — Folklore Archive,Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Armenia,"The Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of Armenia states that its folkloristic archive is classified into 229 folklore collections. The archive also contains 20 separate funds and tens of thousands of dialect versions of Armenian fairy tales, prose, verse and other folklore genres. To avoid inflating the comparison with page or variant totals, SuperstitionsMap uses the conservative figure of 229 classified folklore collections.",https://www.iae.am/en/about_categories/%D5%B7%D5%BF%D5%A5%D5%B4%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%B6-%D5%B8%D6%82-%D5%AC%D5%A1%D5%A2%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%A1%D5%BF%D5%B8%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%A5%D6%80%D5%A8,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/armenian-superstitions/,498,armenian-superstitions,100,40.0,45.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-101,Seychelles,🇸🇨,East Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,101,≈200,200,approximate,Seychellois folktales compiled into a documented research database,Seychelles Research Journal — A Case-Study of Seychelles’ Slave Routes Through its Folktales,Seychelles Research Journal / Penda Choppy folklore database research,"A 2026 Seychelles Research Journal study by Penda Choppy states that about 200 stories had been compiled into a Seychelles folklore database. The study further categorizes 44 as African-origin stories, 47 as replications or adaptations, 64 as European-origin, 18 as Asian/Eastern and 27 as of unknown origin. Because ≈200 is the size of a documented folktale database rather than an exhaustive national count of unique superstitions, it is presented as a folklore-corpus measure.",https://seychellesresearchjournal.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/a_case-study_of_seychelles_slave_routes_through_its_folktales-penda_choppy-seychelles_research_journal-8-1.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/seychellois-superstitions/,520,seychellois-superstitions,100,-4.58333333,55.66666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-102,Nigeria,🇳🇬,West Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,102,190+,190,lower_bound,regional field-study minimum,"Olawepo, Abimbola & Ahmed (2014) — Identification of Biology-Related Superstitious Beliefs",Science Journal of Sociology and Anthropology / University of Ilorin researchers,"A field study in five wards of Isin Local Government Area, Kwara State, recorded 2,658 superstition mentions including repetitions and identified 190 distinct superstitious beliefs among 250 respondents. The 190+ figure is therefore a documented regional minimum for Nigeria, not a nationwide total.",https://www.sjpub.org/sjsa/abstract/sjsa-275.html,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/nigerian-superstitions/,162,nigerian-superstitions,40,10.0,8.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-103,Algeria,🇩🇿,North Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,103,182,182,exact,documented Algerian oral-folklore ethnographic texts,Los chacales al bosque y nosotros al camino: literatura oral y folclore de Argelia,"Universidad de Alcalá — institutional repository, Algerian oral literature and folklore corpus","The Universidad de Alcalá repository describes Los chacales al bosque y nosotros al camino: literatura oral y folclore de Argelia as a corpus of 182 ethnographic texts of Algerian oral literature and folklore. The work groups the material into myths, tales, legends, superstitions and lyric traditions. Because the 182 texts span several folklore genres and are not 182 unique superstitions, the figure is presented as a documented Algerian oral-folklore ethnographic corpus measure rather than an exact national superstition count.",https://ebuah.uah.es/dspace/handle/10017/19838,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/algerian-superstitions/,478,algerian-superstitions,110,28.0,3.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-104,Lithuania,🇱🇹,Europe / Baltic,Europe,Europe,Ranked,104,163+,163,lower_bound,directly archived Lithuanian folk-belief records,Matas Untulis & Agota Bielinytė — Lithuanian Science Society folklore collection (LMD I 194),Lithuanian Folklore Archives / Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore — LMD I 194,"The Lithuanian Folklore Archives of the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore catalogues the Matas Untulis and Agota Bielinytė collection (LMD I 194) as containing 163 beliefs among 234 total folklore items. The archive classifies these records specifically as beliefs and notes themes including wedding and birth beliefs, folk medicine, animal treatment and herding, weather forecasting, Christmas, Užgavėnės and Easter traditions. Because this is one explicitly enumerated archival collection rather than an exhaustive national inventory, 163+ is presented as a directly archived Lithuanian folk-belief corpus minimum, not as the total number of unique superstitions in Lithuania.",https://archyvas.llti.lt/en/folklore_collections_of_the_lithuanian_science_society/?id=415,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/lithuanian-superstitions/,535,lithuanian-superstitions,80,56.0,24.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-105,Laos,🇱🇦,Southeast Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,105,158,158,exact,documented Lao folktales in an academic folklore corpus,Chulalongkorn University — Lao folktale: characteristics and relationship to society,Chulalongkorn University — Faculty of Arts,"A Chulalongkorn University master’s thesis examining Lao folktales explicitly analyzes a corpus of 158 stories: 54 fairy or wonder tales, 34 myths, 34 jests, 21 animal tales and 15 legends. The thesis also discusses Lao beliefs in spirits and omens alongside Buddhism and other social and cultural themes. Because the 158 items form an academic folktale corpus rather than an exhaustive inventory of unique Lao superstitions, the value is presented as a documented Lao folklore/worldview corpus measure.",https://digital.car.chula.ac.th/chulaetd/23983/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/laotian-superstitions/,476,laotian-superstitions,60,18.0,105.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-106,Mauritania,🇲🇷,West Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,106,156,156,exact,documented Mauritanian supernatural oral-tradition texts,"Contes et proverbes de Mauritanie, Tome II — Contes merveilleux","L'Harmattan / Contes et proverbes de Mauritanie — Tome II, Contes merveilleux","The second volume of Contes et proverbes de Mauritanie, devoted to contes merveilleux, contains 156 oral-literature texts centred on encounters with supernatural beings and other wonder-tale traditions. The wider multi-volume project contains additional tales and thousands of proverbs, but those are not added to the headline figure because they belong to broader or different genres. Therefore 156 is presented as a documented Mauritanian supernatural oral-tradition corpus measure rather than an exact count of unique national superstitions.",https://www.mollat.com/livres/235427/contes-et-proverbes-de-mauritanie-encyclopedie-de-la-culture-populaire-mauritanienne-vol-2-contes-merveilleux,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/mauritanian-superstitions/,474,mauritanian-superstitions,60,20.0,-12.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-107,Australia,🇦🇺,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Ranked,107,150+,150,lower_bound,documented Aboriginal Australian meteor-related worldview & omen accounts,Duane W. Hamacher & Ray P. Norris — Meteors in Australian Aboriginal Dreamings (2010),"Macquarie University research record — Hamacher & Norris, WGN / International Meteor Organization (2010)","Duane W. Hamacher and Ray P. Norris's peer-reviewed 2010 study Meteors in Australian Aboriginal Dreamings presents a comprehensive analysis of 150 Aboriginal Australian views of meteors drawn from anthropological and ethnographic literature representing 97 Aboriginal groups across all Australian states. The documented themes include supernatural events, death, omens, war, ritual harm and protection. Separate published corpora document additional Aboriginal accounts of comets, eclipses and other celestial phenomena, but those are not added here because of possible overlap and genre differences. Therefore 150+ is presented as a documented Aboriginal Australian meteor-related worldview/omen corpus minimum rather than an exact count of unique Australian superstitions.",https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/meteors-in-australian-aboriginal-dreamings/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/australian-superstitions/,485,australian-superstitions,100,-27.0,133.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-108,Suriname,🇸🇷,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,108,148,148,exact,documented Paramaribo folk-tale & supernatural-worldview narratives,Melville J. Herskovits & Frances S. Herskovits — Suriname Folk-Lore,DBNL / Suriname Folk-Lore — Melville J. Herskovits & Frances S. Herskovits,"Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits’ Suriname Folk-Lore contains a numbered “Tales from Paramaribo” sequence running through 148 narratives. The wider work also documents soul beliefs, divination, Winti gods and spirits, magic and beliefs concerning the dead. Because the numbered 148-item sequence is a Paramaribo-centred folk-tale corpus spanning several narrative genres rather than 148 unique national superstitions, the figure is presented as a documented Surinamese urban/regional folklore and worldview minimum.",https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/hers005suri01_01/colofon.php,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/surinamese-superstitions/,488,surinamese-superstitions,60,4.0,-56.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-109,Brazil,🇧🇷,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,109,144+,144,lower_bound,multi-region academic compilation minimum,"Duarte & Teixeira — Creencias populares, supersticiones y fraseología en Brasil",Centro Virtual Cervantes; research by Rosinês de Jesus Duarte and Sandra Teixeira de Faria,"The Brazil study documents 144 superstitions, including variants, from informants connected with São Paulo, Minas Gerais, Bahia and Cuiabá. The authors present the material as a partial representative compilation, so 144+ is used as a documented multi-region minimum rather than a national final total.",https://cvc.cervantes.es/lengua/biblioteca_fraseologica/n3_sardelli/teixeira.htm,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/brazilian-superstitions/,201,brazilian-superstitions,100,-10.0,-55.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-110,Guyana,🇬🇾,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,110,140+,140,lower_bound,"documented Guiana Indigenous omen, taboo, ritual & belief ethnographic sections",Walter E. Roth — An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians (1915),Smithsonian Institution / Bureau of American Ethnology — Walter E. Roth (1915),"Walter E. Roth's 1915 An Inquiry into the Animism and Folk-Lore of the Guiana Indians, published by the Bureau of American Ethnology and based principally on his ethnographic work while stationed in British Guiana, systematically numbers its ethnographic material. Chapters XIV–XIX alone contain approximately 140 numbered sections devoted to omens, charms, talismans, taboos, puberty and childbirth restrictions, medicine-man and spirit beliefs, Kanaima, and miscellaneous human and animal beliefs. Roth also uses comparative evidence from neighbouring Venezuela, Surinam, French Guiana and Amazonian regions, so 140+ is presented as a documented Guiana Indigenous belief/ritual corpus measure rather than 140 unique superstitions confined exclusively to modern Guyana. Separate British Guiana and modern Guyanese collections document dozens of additional Indigenous legends and folk traditions, but these are not added because of genre differences and possible overlap.",https://repository.si.edu/items/1b9b7e5d-0046-4071-9cd9-32edcaca85d7,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/guyanese-superstitions/,469,guyanese-superstitions,84,5.0,-59.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-111,Guinea,🇬🇳,West Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,111,139+,139,lower_bound,academically published Fouta-Djallon/Badyar Pular proverb entries,Monique de Lestrange & Marquis de Tressan — Proverbes peuls du Badyar et du Fouta-Djallon (1955),Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Afrique Noire / academic bibliography of Fouta-Djallon and Badyar Pular proverbs,"Monique de Lestrange and the Marquis de Tressan's 1955 study Proverbes peuls du Badyar et du Fouta-Djallon, published in the Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire, contains 139 Pular/Fulani proverbs with French translation. Later scholarship documents additional Pular proverb collections from Guinea's Fouta-Djallon, including Abdourahmane Diallo's 1997 corpus, whose proverbs reflect Fulani social wisdom, customs, thought and cultural rules. Because the available later catalogue does not state an exact entry total, 139+ is used as a securely documented academic minimum rather than an estimated national total of Guinean superstitions.",https://www.persee.fr/doc/cea_0008-0055_1970_num_10_40_2824,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/guinean-superstitions/,438,guinean-superstitions,120,11.0,-10.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-112,Saudi Arabia,🇸🇦,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Ranked,112,136,136,exact,folk legends and tales in a five-volume Saudi folklore collection,Al Riyadh — Abdulkarim al-Juhayman’s Popular Legends from the Heart of Arabia,Al Riyadh / Abdulkarim al-Juhayman folklore collection,"Al Riyadh reports that Abdulkarim al-Juhayman’s five-volume Asatir Sha‘biyya min Qalb Jazirat al-‘Arab contains 136 collected popular legends and stories from the heart of the Arabian Peninsula. The collection preserves folk narrative, sayings and traditional cultural material. Because the 136 items form a defined published folklore collection rather than an exhaustive count of unique Saudi superstitions, 136 is presented as a documented Saudi folk-narrative corpus measure.",https://www.alriyadh.com/691180,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/saudi-arabian-superstitions/,504,saudi-arabian-superstitions,72,25.0,45.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-113,Cabo Verde,🇨🇻,West Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,113,133,133,exact,Cape Verdean folktales in a documented American Folklore Society corpus,Journal of American Folklore — review of Folk-Lore from the Cape Verde Islands,American Folklore Society / Journal of American Folklore,"A 1925 Journal of American Folklore review of Elsie Clews Parsons’s two-volume Folk-Lore from the Cape Verde Islands identifies 133 folktales as the principal narrative material in the collection. The work was published in the Memoirs of the American Folklore Society. Because 133 counts a defined historical folklore corpus rather than every unique Cape Verdean superstition, it is presented as a documented folklore-corpus minimum.",https://www.jstor.org/stable/534965,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/cape-verdean-superstitions/,501,cape-verdean-superstitions,64,16.0,-24.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-114,Fiji,🇫🇯,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Ranked,114,123+,123,lower_bound,academically recorded iTaukei yavusa oral-tradition records,"Aubrey Parke — Degei's Descendants: Spirits, Place and People in Pre-Cession Fiji",Australian National University / ANU Press — Aubrey Parke's Fiji oral-tradition field corpus,"Aubrey Parke's research, later published by ANU Press as Degei's Descendants: Spirits, Place and People in Pre-Cession Fiji, recorded current oral accounts of Fijian myths, traditions, histories and symbols associated with 87 yavusa in the Nadi/Nawaka/Vuda and Yasawa areas and another 36 yavusa in the Rakiraki area, for 123 yavusa represented in the documented field corpus. The research draws on long-term fieldwork and consultation with traditional chiefs, priests, ceremonial officials and community members. Because 123 counts yavusa represented by documented oral-tradition records rather than individual beliefs or superstitions, 123+ is presented as an academically documented iTaukei oral-tradition corpus measure, not an exact national superstition total.",https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/bitstreams/542b21fb-a8b3-4d81-b30d-5e37091da868/download,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/fijian-superstitions/,446,fijian-superstitions,108,-18.0,175.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-115,Mali,🇲🇱,West Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,115,123+,123,lower_bound,academically catalogued Bambara ritual-belief entries,R. Pageard (1967) — Plantes à brûler chez les Bambara,Journal de la Société des Africanistes / Persée,"R. Pageard's 1967 field study Plantes à brûler chez les Bambara, published in the Journal de la Société des Africanistes and based on research in the Ségou region of Mali, contains an explicitly numbered catalogue of 123 studied plants associated with ritual fumigation beliefs and practices. The study describes Bambara concepts in which plants possess ni and their smoke carries nyama, with individual entries associated with protection, fortune, divination, purification, spirits and other ritual effects. Because the corpus concerns primarily Bambara traditions around Ségou rather than all Malian communities, 123+ is a conservative academic corpus minimum rather than a national total of unique superstitions.",https://www.persee.fr/doc/jafr_0037-9166_1967_num_37_1_1419,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/malian-superstitions/,388,malian-superstitions,50,17.0,-4.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-116,San Marino,🇸🇲,Europe / Southern,Europe,Europe,Ranked,116,118,118,exact,San Marino folk-tale texts in Walter Anderson’s documented collection,Compendium of Cultural Policies & Trends — San Marino intangible cultural heritage,Compendium of Cultural Policies & Trends / San Marino cultural-heritage documentation,"The Compendium of Cultural Policies & Trends states that Walter Anderson’s San Marino Folk Tales, collected in the 1920s, are the largest and most important literature recording the Republic’s oral traditions and include 118 texts, 54 of them in dialect. Because the 118 texts form a defined historical oral-tradition collection rather than an exhaustive count of unique Sammarinese superstitions, 118 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus measure.",https://www.culturalpolicies.net/country_profile/san-marino-3-1/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/sammarinese-superstitions/,561,sammarinese-superstitions,10,43.76666666,12.41666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-117,Belarus,🇧🇾,Europe / Eastern,Europe,Europe,Ranked,117,109+,109,lower_bound,documented Belarusian regional supernatural belief narratives,Беларускі фальклор — Vetka Museum bylichki & belief materials,Belarusian folklore scholarship / Vetka Museum regional belief collection,"A scholarly review of the 2015 Беларускі фальклор volume reports a Vetka Museum collection containing 109 bylichki and beliefs, separately from 36 charms. The documented material from the Gomel/Vetka region concerns supernatural encounters, witches and sorcerers, magical practices, the evil eye, harmful magic and counter-magic. The 36 charms are not added to the headline figure because they are a separate genre. Therefore 109+ is presented as a documented Belarusian regional supernatural-belief corpus minimum, not as the national total of unique Belarusian superstitions.",https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/belorusskiy-folklor-belaruski-falklor-materyyaly-i-dasledavanni-zbornik-navukovyh-prats-vyp-2-minsk-belaruskaya-navuka-2015-528-s,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/belarusian-superstitions/,493,belarusian-superstitions,100,53.0,28.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-118,Oman,🇴🇲,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Ranked,118,103,103,exact,"documented Dhofar Mehri folk-belief, custom & oral-tradition texts",T. M. Johnstone / Harry Stroomer — Mehri Texts from Oman,"Durham University — T. M. Johnstone Papers, Mehri texts from Oman","Durham University's T. M. Johnstone Papers describe the Oman component of the Mehri archive as containing 103 texts recorded from Mehri speakers in Dhofar. The institution characterises these materials chiefly as folk tales and beliefs, customs, real incidents and a smaller amount of poetry, and notes that they were later published by Harry Stroomer as Mehri Texts from Oman. Because this is a clearly enumerated regional corpus from Dhofar rather than a complete inventory for all of Oman, 103 is presented as a documented Omani regional folk-belief/oral-tradition minimum rather than the total number of unique superstitions in Oman.",https://valentine.dur.ac.uk/me_exhibition/Mehri%20texts/mehri_text.htm,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/omani-superstitions/,557,omani-superstitions,20,21.0,57.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-119,North Macedonia,🇲🇰,Europe / Balkans,Europe,Europe,Ranked,119,101,101,exact,Macedonian folk tales in a nationally catalogued folklore anthology,COBISS.MK — 101 Macedonian Folk Tales: Anthology of Macedonian Folk Tales,COBISS.MK union bibliographic catalogue,"The COBISS.MK union bibliographic catalogue records the 2003 publication 101 Macedonian Folk Tales: Anthology of Macedonian Folk Tales and classifies it as folk literature. Because 101 is the explicit size of a nationally catalogued anthology rather than an exhaustive inventory of unique North Macedonian superstitions, it is presented as a documented folklore-corpus minimum.",https://plus-legacy.cobiss.net/cobiss/mk/en/bib/54156298,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/macedonian-superstitions/,528,macedonian-superstitions,90,41.83333333,22.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-120,Dominican Republic,🇩🇴,Caribbean,North America,North America,Ranked,120,100+,100,lower_bound,"directly documented Dominican belief, omen, taboo & magical-practice records",Manuel José Andrade — Folklore de la República Dominicana,Manuel José Andrade — Dominican folklore field corpus; accessible digitized text of Folklore de la República Dominicana,"Manuel José Andrade's Folklore de la República Dominicana contains a dedicated Creencias y costumbres section with directly documented Dominican beliefs and practices across birth, death, prayers and charms, folk remedies, omens, portents, taboos, witchcraft and Vodou-related material. A conservative direct enumeration of the accessible text yields at least 100 separately recorded belief, omen, taboo, magical-practice and related folk-healing records, including about 50 distinct motifs in the Augurios, presagios y tabús section alone after near-duplicate motifs are collapsed. The 100+ figure is therefore used as a directly documented corpus minimum, not as an exhaustive count of unique Dominican superstitions; Andrade's own collection is fragmentary and regional variants or overlapping practices may occur.",https://www.scribd.com/document/25157065/FOLCKORE-DE-LA-REP-DOMINICANA-Manuel-Jose-Andrade,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/dominican-superstitions/,466,dominican-superstitions,72,19.0,-70.66666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-121,Kazakhstan,🇰🇿,Central Asia,Asia,Asia|Europe,Ranked,121,100,100,exact,Kazakh fairy tales in the state-backed Asyl Mura audio collection,Otandastar Qory — Asyl Mura national folklore audio collection,Qazaqstan National Television and Radio Corporation / Otandastar Qory,"Otandastar Qory reports that the Asyl Mura audio compilation released by Qazaqstan National Television and Radio Corporation includes 100 fairy tales preserved in the Altyn Qor, alongside hundreds of folk songs, kyuis, zhyr-terme and other heritage recordings. Because 100 counts the fairy-tale section of a broader state-backed folklore audio collection rather than unique Kazakh superstitions, it is presented as a documented folklore-corpus measure.",https://oq.gov.kz/en/qazalemnews/2,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/kazakh-superstitions/,489,kazakh-superstitions,100,48.0,68.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-122,Morocco,🇲🇦,North Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,122,93,93,exact,documented Moroccan folk tales & legends collected in Marrakech,Françoise Légey historical collection,,"Françoise Légey's Contes et légendes populaires du Maroc, based on oral material she collected directly in Marrakech, is structured as 57 wonder tales, 17 animal tales and 19 hagiographical legends, for a total of 93 stories. The collection was originally published in 1926 by the Institut des Hautes Études Marocaines. Because these 93 texts form a Marrakech-based historical collection rather than a complete national count of Moroccan superstitions, the value is presented as a documented regional folklore corpus minimum.",https://www.istitutoeuroarabo.it/DM/tre-significative-raccolte-di-storie-popolari-marocchine/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/moroccan-superstitions/,505,moroccan-superstitions,72,32.0,-5.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-123,Bangladesh,🇧🇩,South Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,123,83+,83,lower_bound,documented Bangladesh guide corpus minimum,Bangladesh research corpus — academic cross-check: A Scale to Measure Superstition,Bangladesh Agricultural University / Journal of Social Sciences; SuperstitionsMap documented guide corpus,"The current Bangladesh guide contains 83 individually documented superstitions, taboos, omens and folk beliefs. As an independent academic cross-check, Bangladesh Agricultural University research reports a 60-item superstition set selected in a broad national context and a later research pool of more than 60 items. The 83+ figure is therefore shown as a documented editorial-corpus minimum, not as an exhaustive national total.",https://thescipub.com/pdf/jssp.2007.18.23.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/bangladeshi-superstitions/,368,bangladeshi-superstitions,83,24.0,90.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-124,Palau,🇵🇼,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Ranked,124,74,74,exact,Palauan legend texts inventoried in the Belau National Museum collection,Kagoshima University — Annotated Inventory of a Collection of Palauan Legends in the Belau National Museum,Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands / Belau National Museum,"Toru Aoyama’s Annotated Inventory of a Collection of Palauan Legends in the Belau National Museum, published in the Kagoshima University Research Center for the Pacific Islands series, inventories 74 registered legend texts from the museum collection. Because these are museum-held legend texts rather than a complete count of unique Palauan superstitions, 74 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus measure.",https://cpi.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/publications/occasionalpapers/archiveocps.html,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/palauan-superstitions/,492,palauan-superstitions,46,7.5,134.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-125,Namibia,🇳🇦,Southern Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,125,71,71,exact,documented Namibian Nama magic-tale texts,Sigrid Schmidt — Children Born from Eggs: African Magic Tales,Journal of Folklore Research Reviews / Indiana University — Sigrid Schmidt Nama magic-tale corpus,"Sigrid Schmidt’s Namibia-based Nama oral-tradition corpus includes 71 separately presented magic-tale texts. The material was recorded among Nama-speaking communities in Namibia and belongs to a larger body of narratives Schmidt collected in the country. Because the 71 items are magic tales rather than an inventory of unique modern superstitions, the figure is presented as a documented Namibian Nama magical-narrative corpus minimum, not as the total number of superstitions in Namibia.",https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/jfrr/article/view/39574,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/namibian-superstitions/,486,namibian-superstitions,60,-22.0,17.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-126,Senegal,🇸🇳,West Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,126,70+,70,lower_bound,multi-source academically documented taboo and totemic-belief records,Independent Senegal field studies — Lower Casamance Jola sacred/taboo records and Serer food taboos,Journal of Ecology and the Natural Environment; Journal of Agriculture and Rural Development in the Tropics and Subtropics,Independent academic studies provide a conservative corpus of at least 70 directly documented Senegalese taboo and totemic-belief records. A Lower Casamance Jola field study tabulates 20 sacred-place access/prohibition records and 38 lineage–totem relationships (58 records). A separate Senegalese food-taboo study documents 7 Serer prohibitions in a Thiès table plus at least 5 additional patronymic animal prohibitions (12 records). The 70+ figure is a multi-source academic corpus minimum; it is not an estimate of all unique Senegalese superstitions.,https://academicjournals.org/journal/JENE/article-full-text/FB932D163590,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/senegalese-superstitions/,382,senegalese-superstitions,100,14.0,-14.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-127,Cameroon,🇨🇲,Central Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,127,66+,66,lower_bound,documented Cameroonian guide beliefs,SuperstitionsMap — Cameroonian Superstitions research corpus,SuperstitionsMap editorial research corpus with institutional and academic citations,"The current Cameroonian guide contains 66 individually documented beliefs, omens, protective customs, taboos and ritual interpretations. Because Cameroon’s traditions are highly regional and no reliable national catalogue supporting the former ≈420 estimate was identified, 66+ is shown as the current documented minimum rather than an exhaustive national total.",https://superstitionsmap.com/cameroonian-superstitions/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/cameroonian-superstitions/,366,cameroonian-superstitions,66,6.0,12.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-128,Zimbabwe,🇿🇼,South Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,128,66+,66,lower_bound,multi-source academically documented taboo and folk-belief records,Published Shona zviera corpus and independent Ndebele/Tonga field studies,Mambo Press / Stanford University Libraries; Inkanyiso; People Centred – The Journal of Development Administration,"A conservative minimum of 66 Zimbabwean taboo and folk-belief records can be directly documented from independent published sources: at least 28 numbered Shona zviera are verifiable in Liveson Tatira's published Zviera zvaVaShona corpus; a Great Zimbabwe University-linked study records 20 Ndebele taboo items from Nkayi; and a separate Binga field study documents at least 18 Tonga food, pregnancy and post-natal taboos. The 66+ figure is a multi-source academic corpus minimum, not an estimate of all unique Zimbabwean superstitions.",https://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/4717841,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/zimbabwean-superstitions/,384,zimbabwean-superstitions,100,-20.0,30.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-129,Uganda,🇺🇬,East Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,129,65+,65,lower_bound,multi-source academically documented regional taboo and belief records,Two peer-reviewed Uganda field studies — Buyende District and Acholi subregion,Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine; BMC Nutrition,"Two peer-reviewed Ugandan field studies provide at least 65 directly documented regional taboo and cultural-belief records. A 2024 Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine study in Buyende District tabulates 42 food-related taboo/cultural-belief entries, while a 2023 BMC Nutrition study in the Acholi subregion identifies 14 food taboos and 9 additional pregnancy-related taboos or misbeliefs. Because motifs can overlap between regional studies, 65+ is presented as a multi-source academic record count rather than an exact count of unique Ugandan superstitions.",https://ethnobiomed.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13002-024-00682-z,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/ugandan-superstitions/,380,ugandan-superstitions,100,1.0,32.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-130,Somalia,🇸🇴,East Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,130,62+,62,lower_bound,multi-source academically documented taboo and ritual-belief records,Puntland food-taboo field study and Somali National University ritual-healing corpus,BMC Nutrition / Springer Nature; Somali National University / Third International Congress of Somali Studies,"A conservative minimum of 62 Somali taboo and ritual-belief records can be directly documented from independent academic sources. A 2026 BMC Nutrition mixed-methods study conducted across all nine regions of Puntland tabulates 51 food-taboo records covering pregnancy, lactation, early childhood, adult men, menstruation and illness. Separately, Abdullahi Mohamed Ahmed of Somali National University explicitly lists 11 named magical and exorcistic rites practiced in Somalia in the Proceedings of the Third International Congress of Somali Studies (1988). Additional institutional sources document further Somali weather lore, evil-eye, jinn, breastfeeding and health beliefs, but these are not added to the count to avoid uncertain duplication. The 62+ figure is therefore a conservative multi-source academic corpus minimum, not an estimate of all unique Somali superstitions.",https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40795-026-01413-1,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/somali-superstitions/,386,somali-superstitions,80,10.0,49.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-131,New Caledonia,🇳🇨,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Ranked,131,60,60,exact,published Melanesian oral-tradition tales from New Caledonia,"Académie des Langues Kanak — Littérature orale, 60 contes mélanésiens de Nouvelle-Calédonie",Académie des Langues Kanak — Xârâcùù bibliography,"The Académie des Langues Kanak bibliography for the Xârâcùù language area lists the 2008 work Littérature orale, 60 contes mélanésiens de Nouvelle-Calédonie, documenting a published collection of 60 Melanesian tales from New Caledonia. Because this is a specific oral-literature collection rather than an exhaustive catalogue of unique New Caledonian superstitions or all Kanak traditions, the figure is presented as a documented published folklore corpus measure.",https://www.alk.nc/langues/xaracuu,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/new-caledonian-superstitions/,491,new-caledonian-superstitions,36,-21.5,165.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-132,New Zealand,🇳🇿,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Ranked,132,60,60,exact,Māori oral-history myths and legends in the documented Pūrākau collection,National Library of New Zealand — Pūrākau: Māori myths and legends,National Library of New Zealand / NZ On Air,"The National Library of New Zealand catalogue describes Pūrākau as 60 ancient tales from Māori oral history, narrated at the locations associated with the traditions. Because the 60 tales form a selected audiovisual folklore collection rather than an exhaustive national inventory of Māori myths, legends or New Zealand superstitions, 60 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus minimum.",https://natlib.govt.nz/records/55079743,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/new-zealander-superstitions/,551,new-zealander-superstitions,30,-41.0,174.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-133,Tanzania,🇹🇿,East Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,133,60+,60,lower_bound,documented multi-region Tanzanian guide corpus minimum,SuperstitionsMap — Tanzanian Superstitions research corpus,SuperstitionsMap editorial research corpus with academic and institutional citations,"The current Tanzania guide contains 60 individually documented folk beliefs, omens, taboos and ritual interpretations drawn from multiple communities and regions. As an independent quantitative check, a Tanzania coastal fisheries study explicitly identified and enumerated 14 forms of taboos and beliefs in that single cultural domain. The 60+ figure is a documented multi-source corpus minimum, not an exhaustive national total.",https://superstitionsmap.com/tanzanian-superstitions/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/tanzanian-superstitions/,370,tanzanian-superstitions,60,-6.0,35.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-134,Solomon Islands,🇸🇧,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Ranked,134,55+,55,lower_bound,documented Solomon Islands guide corpus minimum,SuperstitionsMap — Solomon Islands research corpus,"SuperstitionsMap editorial research corpus with UNESCO, ANU Press, Cambridge University Press and other scholarly sources","The current Solomon Islands guide contains at least 55 individually documented folk beliefs, omens, ritual restrictions and related traditions supported by scholarly and institutional sources. As an independent corpus check, Gerald C. Wheeler’s Mono-Alu Folklore preserves 81 folklore texts from the Western Solomon Islands, but folklore-text totals are not counts of unique superstitions. The 55+ figure is therefore shown as a documented belief-corpus minimum rather than the former unsupported ≈400 estimate.",https://superstitionsmap.com/solomon-islander-superstitions/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/solomon-islander-superstitions/,374,solomon-islander-superstitions,55,-8.0,159.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-135,Andorra,🇦🇩,Europe / Western,Europe,Europe,Ranked,135,54+,54,lower_bound,documented Andorran traditional legend & cultural-worldview narratives,Roser Carol & Àlvar Valls — Llegendes d'Andorra,Pagès Editors / Roser Carol & Àlvar Valls — Llegendes d'Andorra,"Roser Carol and Àlvar Valls' Llegendes d'Andorra was published in 2010 as a collection of 54 Andorran legends drawn from the principality's transmitted traditions, collective imagination and local mythical heritage. A later expanded and reworked edition presents 56 legends, but 54+ is retained here as the conservative minimum based on the earlier clearly enumerated corpus. Because the material is a legend/worldview collection including witches, miracles, fantastic beings and treasure traditions rather than an inventory of unique modern superstitions, 54+ is presented as a documented Andorran traditional-narrative minimum.",https://books.google.com/books/about/Llegendes_d_Andorra.html?id=grNP6uNi7OcC,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/andorran-superstitions/,558,andorran-superstitions,20,42.5063,1.5218,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-136,Thailand,🇹🇭,Southeast Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,136,52,52,exact,official belief-concept reference-volume count,"Thailand Fine Arts Department — Namanukrom Khanop Prapheni Thai, Folk Customs Vol. 3 (Belief Concepts)","Fine Arts Department, Ministry of Culture, Thailand / National Library of Thailand","The official Thai Customs Encyclopedia project includes a Folk Customs volume devoted to belief concepts; the National Library of Thailand project document lists 52 terms for this volume. The figure is the number of catalogued belief concepts in this official reference volume, not an exhaustive count of every Thai superstition.",https://digital.nlt.go.th/dlib/files/original/b490052119bb892b28f5c48830bec1c1.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/thai-superstitions/,262,thai-superstitions,102,15.0,100.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-137,Angola,🇦🇴,Central Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,137,50+,50,lower_bound,documented Angolan guide corpus minimum,SuperstitionsMap — Angolan Superstitions research corpus,SuperstitionsMap editorial research corpus with historical ethnography and institutional citations,"The current Angola guide contains 50 individually documented folk beliefs, omens, taboos, divination signs and protective customs based on historical ethnography and institutional sources. Larger Angolan ethnographic and divination collections exist, but their object or specimen totals are not counts of unique superstitions. The 50+ figure is therefore shown as a documented minimum rather than the former unsupported ≈400 estimate.",https://superstitionsmap.com/angolan-superstitions/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/angolan-superstitions/,372,angolan-superstitions,50,-12.5,18.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-138,Brunei,🇧🇳,Southeast Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,138,50,50,exact,unique Bruneian oral folklore stories from all four districts,International Journal of Linguistics and Indigenous Culture — Cerita Lisan Brunei review,International Journal of Linguistics and Indigenous Culture / Universiti Brunei Darussalam,"A peer-reviewed review of Cerita Lisan Brunei states that the collection contains 50 unique folklore stories from Brunei Darussalam’s four districts: Brunei-Muara, Belait, Tutong and Temburong. The collection was produced by Universiti Brunei Darussalam students. Because these 50 texts form a defined oral-folklore collection rather than a complete national count of unique superstitions, 50 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus measure.",https://journal-center.litpam.com/index.php/ijlic/article/view/2368,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/bruneian-superstitions/,538,bruneian-superstitions,70,4.5,114.66666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-139,Marshall Islands,🇲🇭,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Ranked,139,50,50,exact,documented Marshallese legend & oral-tradition narratives,Daniel A. Kelin II — Marshall Islands Legends and Stories,"Bess Press — Daniel A. Kelin II, Marshall Islands Legends and Stories","Daniel A. Kelin II's Marshall Islands Legends and Stories presents 50 stories collected from 18 storytellers representing eight islands and atolls in the Marshall Islands. The corpus includes origin traditions, mejenkwaad and other supernatural beings, traditional values, customs and other oral narratives. Because these 50 records are a multi-island oral-tradition collection rather than an inventory of unique superstitions, 50 is presented as a documented Marshallese legend/oral-tradition corpus minimum.",https://besspress.com/products/marshall-island-legends-pb,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/marshallese-superstitions/,510,marshallese-superstitions,46,9.0,168.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-140,Qatar,🇶🇦,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Ranked,140,≈50,50,approximate,Qatari folktales orally collected in a university project,Qatar University Foundation Program — Qatari folktale collection project,Qatar University — Foundation Program,"Qatar University reports that from 2016 to 2018 Foundation Program students were trained to collect Qatari folktales orally from their families and collected nearly 50 folktales. Because this is a defined university collection project rather than an exhaustive national count of unique Qatari superstitions, ≈50 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus measure.",https://www.qu.edu.qa/SiteImages/static_file/qu/foundation/documents/fpjareeda/FP%20Jareeda%20issue%2028.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/qatari-superstitions/,554,qatari-superstitions,20,25.5,51.25,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-141,Tunisia,🇹🇳,North Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,141,50,50,exact,archived Tunisian folk-tale audio items,CMAM Phonothèque — Contes populaires en Tunisie,Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes — Phonothèque,"The sound archive of Tunisia’s Centre des Musiques Arabes et Méditerranéennes catalogues the collection Contes populaires en Tunisie as containing 50 items. The collection preserves recorded Tunisian folk-tale material in the national sound-archive context. Because the 50 entries are archival audio items from a specific collection rather than an exhaustive count of unique Tunisian superstitions, the figure is presented as a documented folk-tale archive measure.",https://phonotheque.cmam.tn/archives/collections/contes_populaires/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/tunisian-superstitions/,515,tunisian-superstitions,110,34.0,9.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-142,Turkmenistan,🇹🇲,Central Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,142,50,50,exact,Turkmen folk tales in the documented 1940 collected edition,Turkmenistan.gov.tm — Books: The Treasure Trove of Spirituality and Fount of Knowledge,Turkmenistan.gov.tm,"The official Turkmenistan government portal states that the first recorded Turkmen folklore included 13 folk stories and that a collected book of fifty Turkmen folk tales was published in 1940. Because 50 is the size of a documented historical folktale collection rather than an exhaustive count of unique Turkmen superstitions, it is presented as a conservative folklore-corpus minimum.",https://turkmenistan.gov.tm/en/post/53781/books-treasure-trove-spirituality-and-fount-knowledge,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/turkmen-superstitions/,517,turkmen-superstitions,100,40.0,60.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-143,Albania,🇦🇱,Europe / Balkans,Europe,Europe,Ranked,143,39,39,exact,tales and popular sayings in a documented Albanian folklore collection,Robert Elsie — The Rediscovery of Folk Literature in Albania,Robert Elsie — Albanian studies scholarship,"Albanologist Robert Elsie records that Thimi Mitko’s scholarly Albanian folklore collection contained 505 folk songs plus 39 tales and popular sayings, mainly from southern Albania. The 505 songs are not included in this metric. Because the 39 items are a defined regional folklore corpus rather than an exhaustive national count of unique Albanian superstitions, 39 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus minimum.",https://www.elsie.de/pdf/articles/A2007AlbanianFolkLiterature.pdf,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/albanian-superstitions/,534,albanian-superstitions,80,41.0,20.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-144,East Timor,🇹🇱,Southeast Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,144,37,37,exact,"documented Timor-Leste tales, legends & myths",University of Minho — Os Ovos de Ouro. Contos e Lendas de Timor-Leste,University of Minho — Centre for Humanistic Studies / Timor-Leste oral-tradition collection,"The University of Minho reports that Os Ovos de Ouro. Contos e Lendas de Timor-Leste contains 37 tales, legends and myths, especially from the Bobonaro region. The collection preserves oral meanings and details and includes supernatural creation, transfiguration, local beliefs, sacred-symbolic animals and traditional cultural practices. The author’s broader oral-tradition fieldwork has covered all 13 districts of Timor-Leste, but the figure 37 refers specifically to this published collection and is therefore presented as a documented corpus minimum rather than a national superstition total.",https://www.eeg.uminho.pt/pt/_layouts/15/UMinho.PortaisUOEI.UI/Pages/EventsDetail.aspx?id=60632,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/timorese-superstitions/,479,timorese-superstitions,110,-8.83333333,125.91666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-145,Malta,🇲🇹,Europe / Mediterranean,Europe,Europe,Ranked,145,37,37,exact,documented Maltese folktales collected by Hans Stumme,University of Malta,,"The University of Malta states that Hans Stumme collected 37 Maltese folktales, 12 of which deal specifically with magic. The university discusses this material within its Oral Tradition research programme. Because the 37 texts are a defined historical folktale collection rather than an exhaustive count of unique Maltese superstitions, the value is presented as a documented Maltese folk-narrative corpus measure.",https://www.um.edu.mt/newspoint/events/um/2018/11/talkaboutmaltesemagicfolktales,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/maltese-superstitions/,545,maltese-superstitions,50,35.83333333,14.58333333,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-146,UAE,🇦🇪,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Ranked,146,≈37,37,approximate,documented mythical creatures in Emirati folk heritage,Sharjah Institute for Heritage,,"The Sharjah Art Foundation Reference Library catalogues Abdul Aziz Al Musallam's Encyclopedia of Superstitious Creatures in the Emirati Heritage, published by the Sharjah Institute for Heritage, and states that the author discusses about 37 mythical creatures found in Emirati tales and folk imagination. Because the approximately 37 figure counts documented supernatural creatures rather than 37 separate Emirati superstitions, it is presented as a mythical-creature corpus measure.",https://library.sharjahart.org/cgi-bin/koha/opac-detail.pl?biblionumber=4003,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/emirati-superstitions/,555,emirati-superstitions,20,24.0,54.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-147,Bahamas,🇧🇸,Caribbean,North America,North America,Ranked,147,32,32,exact,documented Bahamian Jack tales across two folklore collections,Library of Congress — Jack Tales in Printed Collections,Library of Congress / Elsie Clews Parsons collections,"The Library of Congress explains that Elsie Clews Parsons’s 1918 Folk-Tales of Andros Island, Bahamas contained 27 Jack tales and that her later Spirituals and Other Folklore from the Bahamas contained 5 additional Jack tales collected in 1926, for a documented total of 32. Because these are a specific Bahamian tale tradition rather than a complete national inventory of superstitions, 32 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus minimum.",https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2025/07/jack-in-the-books-jack-tales-in-printed-collections/,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/bahamian-superstitions/,487,bahamian-superstitions,80,24.25,-76.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-148,Kuwait,🇰🇼,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Ranked,148,30,30,exact,documented Kuwaiti folk/fairy tales collected from oral narrators,"Kuwait National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters / Al-Arabi — Bazzah al-Batinī folk-tale collection","National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, Kuwait — Al-Arabi","In an Al-Arabi interview published by Kuwait’s National Council for Culture, Arts and Letters, researcher Bazzah al-Batinī explains that she collected 30 Kuwaiti folk or fairy tales in 1983 from oral narrators who had inherited the stories from earlier generations. The collection was first published in 1988 and later reissued. Because these 30 texts are a specific oral-narrative collection rather than 30 unique national superstitions, the value is presented as a documented Kuwaiti folk-tale corpus measure.",https://alarabi.nccal.gov.kw/Home/Article/17819,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/kuwaiti-superstitions/,556,kuwaiti-superstitions,20,29.5,45.75,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-149,Paraguay,🇵🇾,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,149,30,30,exact,published Paraguayan popular legends,Biblioteca del Poder Legislativo,,"The online catalogue of Paraguay's Biblioteca y Archivo Central del Congreso Nacional records Jorge Montesino's 30 leyendas populares del Paraguay as a 30-legend publication classified under Folklore — Paraguay, Legends and Mythology. The contents include well-known Paraguayan legendary figures and narratives such as Pombero, Ka'aguy Póra and Mala Visión. Because this is a defined published collection rather than an exhaustive national count of unique Paraguayan superstitions, 30 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus minimum.",https://catalogo.bacn.gov.py/opac_css/index.php?id=7235&lvl=categ_see,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/paraguayan-superstitions/,503,paraguayan-superstitions,100,-23.0,-58.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-150,Lesotho,🇱🇸,South Africa,Africa,Africa,Ranked,150,23,23,exact,Basotho tales in a documented folklore collection,American Folklore Society / University of Texas Press — Tales from the Basotho,American Folklore Society / University of Texas Press,"Minnie Postma’s Tales from the Basotho, published for the American Folklore Society by the University of Texas Press, contains 23 numbered tale chapters in its contents. Because this is a defined Basotho tale collection rather than an exhaustive national count of unique Lesotho superstitions, 23 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus minimum.",https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7560/746084,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/basotho-superstitions/,511,basotho-superstitions,36,-29.5,28.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-151,Trinidad and Tobago,🇹🇹,Caribbean,North America,North America,Ranked,151,15,15,exact,audio cassettes in the OP61 Trinidadian Oral Traditions folklore collection,University of the West Indies — OP61 Trinidadian Oral Traditions,University of the West Indies — Alma Jordan Library,"The University of the West Indies OP61 Trinidadian Oral Traditions collection consists of 15 audio cassettes associated with Melville Herskovits’s late-1930s fieldwork in Toco. The catalogue classifies the material under oral tradition and folklore. Because 15 is a recording-carrier count for a defined fieldwork collection rather than a count of unique Trinidad and Tobago superstitions, it is presented as a conservative documented folklore minimum.",https://www.uwispace.sta.uwi.edu/items/916158dc-2549-4b07-bd2c-205f80ecb8f5/full,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/trinidadian-superstitions/,480,trinidadian-superstitions,72,11.0,-61.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-152,Tajikistan,🇹🇯,Central Asia,Asia,Asia,Ranked,152,12,12,exact,Badakhshan fairy tales recorded from Pamiri storytellers,University of Central Asia — Fairy Tales of Badakhshan,University of Central Asia — Cultural Heritage and Humanities Unit,"The University of Central Asia states that Fairy Tales of Badakhshan contains 12 fairy tales in their original languages with Tajik, Russian and English translations. The original texts were recorded from native storytellers of the Shughni-Rushani group and are presented as research material for Pamiri folklore. Because this is a documented regional corpus rather than an exhaustive national count of Tajik superstitions, 12 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus minimum.",https://ucentralasia.org/publications/2024/april/fairy-tales-of-badakhshan,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/tajik-superstitions/,507,tajik-superstitions,60,39.0,71.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-153,Uruguay,🇺🇾,South America,South America,South America,Ranked,153,12,12,exact,named legends and superstitions in a documented Uruguayan collection,Biblioteca del Poder Legislativo — Leyendas y supersticiones del Uruguay,"Biblioteca del Poder Legislativo, Uruguay","Uruguay’s Legislative Library catalogue for Valentín García Saiz’s Leyendas y supersticiones del Uruguay lists 12 named contents, including Lobizón, Luces malas, Almas en Pena, Empacho, La lechuza and other legends or traditional belief narratives. Because this is a defined published collection rather than a complete national count of unique Uruguayan superstitions, 12 is presented as a documented folklore-corpus minimum.",https://pmb.parlamento.gub.uy/pmb/opac_css/index.php?id=15212&lvl=notice_display,verified_in_globe_dataset,,,,https://superstitionsmap.com/uruguayan-superstitions/,519,uruguayan-superstitions,100,-33.0,-56.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U01,Austria,🇦🇹,Europe / Central,Europe,Europe,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Count awaiting institutional verification,"A large independent Austrian legend corpus has been identified, but it has not yet met our preferred institutional-source standard for ranking.",https://superstitionsmap.com/austrian-superstitions/,550,austrian-superstitions,35,47.33333333,13.33333333,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U02,Barbados,🇧🇧,Caribbean,North America,North America,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Scholarly Barbados folklore collections exist, but the available sources do not state a sufficiently clear item total.",https://superstitionsmap.com/barbadian-superstitions/,513,barbadian-superstitions,120,13.16666666,-59.53333333,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U03,Belgium,🇧🇪,Europe / Western,Europe,Europe,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,National count unavailable,"Large regional folklore collections exist, including extensive Flemish material, but regional corpus totals are not treated as a national Belgian count.",https://superstitionsmap.com/belgian-superstitions/,547,belgian-superstitions,45,50.83333333,4.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U04,Belize,🇧🇿,Central America,North America,North America,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Academic research documents Belizean oral traditions and folktales, but no qualifying enumerated national corpus has been verified.",https://superstitionsmap.com/belizean-superstitions/,508,belizean-superstitions,60,17.25,-88.75,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U05,Djibouti,🇩🇯,East Africa,Africa,Africa,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Verified count unavailable,No qualifying item-level folklore corpus has yet been identified under our methodology.,https://superstitionsmap.com/djiboutian-superstitions/,497,djiboutian-superstitions,60,11.5,43.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U06,Dominica,🇩🇲,Caribbean,North America,North America,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Scholarly collections document Carib and Kalinago beliefs and traditions in Dominica, but a qualifying total has not been established.",https://superstitionsmap.com/dominican-dominica-superstitions/,526,dominican-dominica-superstitions,90,15.41666666,-61.33333333,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U07,Grenada,🇬🇩,Caribbean,North America,North America,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Verified count unavailable,"Folklore material is documented, but no sufficiently enumerated corpus has yet been verified.",https://superstitionsmap.com/grenadian-superstitions/,524,grenadian-superstitions,100,12.11666666,-61.66666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U08,Honduras,🇭🇳,Central America,North America,North America,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Academic fieldwork documents Honduran beliefs and traditions, but participant totals are not treated as counts of beliefs or superstitions.",https://superstitionsmap.com/honduran-superstitions/,468,honduran-superstitions,72,15.0,-86.5,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U09,Jordan,🇯🇴,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Academic sources document Jordanian oral tradition, but no qualifying item-level national total has been verified.",https://superstitionsmap.com/jordanian-superstitions/,495,jordanian-superstitions,72,31.0,36.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U10,Kiribati,🇰🇮,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Major Gilbertese and Kiribati ethnographic collections exist, but publication length is not treated as a count of individual traditions.",https://superstitionsmap.com/kiribati-superstitions/,537,kiribati-superstitions,80,1.41666666,173.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U11,Lebanon,🇱🇧,Middle East,Asia,Asia,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Lebanese oral-tradition collections have been documented, but the available institutional sources do not provide a qualifying item total.",https://superstitionsmap.com/lebanese-superstitions/,533,lebanese-superstitions,80,33.83333333,35.83333333,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U12,Libya,🇱🇾,North Africa,Africa,Africa,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Count requires verification,"A Libyan folktale corpus has been identified, but its reported item total has not yet been confirmed through a sufficiently strong primary or institutional source.",https://superstitionsmap.com/libyan-superstitions/,496,libyan-superstitions,48,25.0,17.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U13,Monaco,🇲🇨,Europe / Western,Europe,Europe,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Verified count unavailable,No qualifying enumerated Monegasque folklore corpus has yet been identified.,https://superstitionsmap.com/monegasque-superstitions/,559,monegasque-superstitions,15,43.73333333,7.4,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U14,Mongolia,🇲🇳,East Asia,Asia,Asia,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Scholarly sources document Mongolian taboos, beliefs and folklore, but publication size is not converted into an item count.",https://superstitionsmap.com/mongolian-superstitions/,465,mongolian-superstitions,80,46.0,105.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U15,Montenegro,🇲🇪,Europe / Balkans,Europe,Europe,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Published Montenegrin folk-prose collections exist, but a reproducible corpus total has not yet been established.",https://superstitionsmap.com/montenegrin-superstitions/,540,montenegrin-superstitions,70,42.7087,19.3744,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U16,Nauru,🇳🇷,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Count requires verification,"A documented Nauruan legends and traditions collection exists, but reported tale totals require stronger institutional confirmation.",https://superstitionsmap.com/nauruan-superstitions/,546,nauruan-superstitions,50,-0.53333333,166.91666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U17,Nicaragua,🇳🇮,Central America,North America,North America,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Major Nicaraguan folklore collections exist, but mixed genres and publication length are not combined into an artificial national total.",https://superstitionsmap.com/nicaraguan-superstitions/,481,nicaraguan-superstitions,180,13.0,-85.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U18,Saint Lucia,🇱🇨,Caribbean,North America,North America,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Documented subset only,"Small published Saint Lucian folktale collections exist, but they represent selected collections rather than a sufficiently broad corpus for ranking.",https://superstitionsmap.com/saint-lucian-superstitions/,522,saint-lucian-superstitions,100,13.88333333,-60.96666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U19,Saint Vincent,🇻🇨,Caribbean,North America,North America,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Verified count unavailable,No qualifying enumerated national folklore corpus has yet been identified.,https://superstitionsmap.com/vincentian-superstitions/,523,vincentian-superstitions,100,13.25,-61.2,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U20,Samoa,🇼🇸,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Count awaiting primary verification,"A government-backed oral-tradition project is documented, but the reported corpus total is awaiting confirmation from a primary institutional source.",https://superstitionsmap.com/samoan-superstitions/,471,samoan-superstitions,36,-13.58333333,-172.33333333,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U21,Sao Tome and Principe,🇸🇹,West Africa,Africa,Africa,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Academic oral-tradition material exists, but linguistic or archival totals are not treated as counts of individual folklore traditions.",https://superstitionsmap.com/sao-tomean-superstitions/,521,sao-tomean-superstitions,100,1.0,7.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U22,Singapore,🇸🇬,Southeast Asia,Asia,Asia,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Curated subset available,"Official heritage collections publish selected Singaporean myths and legends, but curated selections are not treated as a national corpus count.",https://superstitionsmap.com/singaporean-superstitions/,552,singaporean-superstitions,25,1.36666666,103.8,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U23,Togo,🇹🇬,West Africa,Africa,Africa,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Count not used for ranking,"A published Togolese tale corpus provides an approximate total, but methodological limitations prevent its use in the ranking.",https://superstitionsmap.com/togolese-superstitions/,475,togolese-superstitions,72,8.0,1.16666666,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U24,Tonga,🇹🇴,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Corpus identified · Count unavailable,"Major scholarly collections of Tongan myths and tales exist, but page totals are not treated as numbers of individual tales.",https://superstitionsmap.com/tongan-superstitions/,477,tongan-superstitions,84,-20.0,-175.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U25,Tuvalu,🇹🇻,Oceania,Oceania,Oceania,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Verified count unavailable,No qualifying enumerated Tuvaluan folklore corpus has yet been identified.,https://superstitionsmap.com/tuvaluan-superstitions/,543,tuvaluan-superstitions,60,-8.0,178.0,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/
SM-U26,Vatican City,🇻🇦,Europe / Southern,Europe,Europe,Unranked,,,,unranked,,,,,,not_applicable,U,Not enough country-specific data,"Large Vatican archival holdings are not equivalent to Vatican City folklore, and no qualifying country-specific corpus has been identified.",https://superstitionsmap.com/vatican-superstitions/,562,vatican-superstitions,5,41.9029,12.4534,1.0.1,2026-08-24,https://superstitionsmap.com/dataset/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-methodology/,https://superstitionsmap.com/data-license/,CC BY 4.0,https://superstitionsmap.com/