Left or Right Eye Twitching: What Does Folk Belief Say It Signals?
What folk belief says a twitching left or right eye signals: Phan Kế Bính's "máy mắt, có sự", and an old Chinese table of left and right by the hour.
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What does a twitching left eye signal in folk belief?
Vietnamese folk belief as Phan Kế Bính records it says only "máy mắt, có sự", without separating left and right. The table in the Chinese Baiguai Duanjing makes the left eye good or bad by the hour: in the Tý hour something honourable, in the Sửu hour worry, in the Ngọ hour things going as wished.
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