Left hand or bad hand?

I am a left hander and I am really proud of being it but our society doesn't accept it and in my childhood I had suffered from such problems a lot. But now I can defend myself, can tell positive aspects of being a left hander.But the memories still haunts. I still remember that time when my school teachers and friends forced me to write with my right hand. But how to write, it was impossible for me. It troubled a lot but why didn't they understand? They only wanted me to write with my right hand and nothing else.

For you it is such a small issue but for me, but for all left handers that matters a lot.

Time has changed a lot and I have seen many positive changes in my society about lefties but all the same, recently in this so called modern world I have heard that how a left hander student is being ignored by her school fellows in a local school. This attitude toward left handers invokes me to write some misconceptions about it from all over the world.

Over the centuries, customs, religions and habits have made sure that the left hand is almost universally damned and unwelcome. Only very recently has the use of the left hand been accepted as more 'normal'. Now whats that normal?

Lets forget about this normal thing but being a left hander, here I will like to highlight some superstitions and beliefs about the price of being a left hander.

It is to believe that in popular folklore in many cultures around the world, the Devil, or the local equivalent, is always left-handed (look at paintings and illustrations and extracts from religious texts).

Throughout most of Christianity, good stuff happens on the right and bad on the left!

In the parable of the sheep and the goats, the sheep on the right side inherit the kingdom of heaven, but the goats on the left are cursed and sent into everlasting fire and punishment.


The ancient Greeks regarded the left side as inauspicious and unlucky and the Romans later took up the same view. The Greek word for left, 'skaios' came to mean 'ill-omened' and 'awkward' as well.

An account of certain African tribes in 1906 describes what they do to left-handed children. They poured boiling water into a hole in the ground then thrust the offending hand in and wedged it down with earth. This tended to damage the hand and discourage the child form using it.

Until fairly recently (and still, sometimes, today) children using their left hand to write with were strongly dissuaded, by having the left arm tied behind their back, by having the left knuckles hit with a ruler or other suitable punishments.

There are a lot more stories like these but Why the world is so much against Left handers? or they are against Left hand? or Left? Decide yourself.