Tree grows through wall of building in Japan

Superstition is always funny.

The tree that, by chance, doesn’t burn in a great fire is then called the holy/lucky/super tree. As it’s more fun to believe in luck than just random chance and bell curves.

There’ll never be a news story about the lucky tree, plant, rock, whatever whose power “stopped working” when, again by random chance, something bad happened to it, near it.

Actually, it probably just gets worse, lucky tree becomes “cursed tree” and sacrifices must be made to appease it or whatever.

Luckily for rational people, in Japan, you can save quite a bit of money by not believing this crap.
Have a wedding or party on an “unlucky” day when it’s cheaper. Get an apartment with an unlucky number cheaper [in theory, does it actually happen?] Save money by not buying useless amulets at shrines each New Year.
If Japanese ever start buying stocks a lot on an individual basis, you could probably use thier superstitions to make a killing.

So – How many ‘eeeeeeehs!’ were there in this clip?

As if it’s the first time this has happened. Calm down. It’s a tree! Trees do this kind of stuff!