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Chinese superstition
Coverage of Chinese superstition in the Nexus archive.
- Fearing ‘bad luck’ omen, Chinese man repeatedly slaps twitching right eye, damaging vision
A man in Wuhan, China, named Le suffered retinal detachment after repeatedly slapping his twitching right eyelid, driven by the superstition that a twitching right eye omens disaster. The belief aligns with a common Chinese saying linking left eye twitches to wealth and right eye twitches to misfortune.