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Superstition of the Jacarandas

Image:Irene Spanellis

Spring in Jozi brings with it the blossoming of the beautiful jacaranda flowers. Witsies believe that if one of the purple Jacaranda flowers falls on your head, and you haven't started studying for your year-end exams, then it's probably too late and you're doomed to failure.

What is fascinating, is that climate change may have been the catalyst to a student superstition having to change from being one of bad luck - ie blooming in November means if you haven’t started studying yet it’s too late to pass, to blooming in September where it now rather serves as a reminder to start studying!  

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