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| | From:  Bud1800 (Original Message) | Sent: 6/13/2008 1:55 AM |
Are you superstitious?
It's Friday the 13th
with so much to dread.
Some people ignore it
and just stay in bed.
Silly Superstitions
It's bad luck to walk under a ladder.
This came from the early Christian belief that a leaning ladder formed
a triangle with the wall and ground. You must never violate the Holy
Trinity by walking through a triangle, lest you be considered in
league with the devil. (And you all know what good Christians did to
people they suspected of being in league with the devil.)
Beware of Friday the Thirteenth.
Those who know about these things, inform us that Adam and Eve were
expelled from the Garden of Eden on a Friday, Noah's flood started on
a Friday, and Christ was crucified on a Friday. Christians also noted
that twelve witches plus one devil are present at Satanic ceremonies
so Friday and 13 make a deadly combination.
God Bless You.
During the sixth century, it was customary to congratulate people who
sneezed because they were expelling evil from their bodies. Later,
when a great plague took hold of Europe, and people began sneezing
violently, the Pope passed a law. Since sneezing meant that the person
was going to die of plague, people were required to bless the sneezer.
Don't spill the salt.
Although some people believe that Judas spilt salt during the last
supper, this claim can't be proven. Salt was a very precious expensive
commodity in the middle ages. It was also used for medicinal purposes.
If you spilled any, you must immediately throw it over your left
shoulder to strike the nasty spirits in the eye, thus preventing
sickness.
Wear a St. Christopher Medal when you travel.
Historians don't believe there ever was a Saint Christopher.
Black cats are evil.
In ancient Egypt, the Goddess Bast, was a black female cat. Christian
priests wanted to wipe out all traces of other religions so convinced
their ignorant followers to destroy the evil demons that were black
cats. While they were at it, they destroyed the kindly little old
ladies who cared for the cats believing them to be witches.
Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home.
It is bad luck to kill a ladybug because it represents the Virgin Mary.
Pie In The Sky.
Of course, this means to search for the impossible dream but it
originated in the early 1900's. A famous labor organizer named Joe
Hill was extremely critical of the clergy's treatment of slaves. He
wrote a tune called 'The Preacher and the Slave" accusing the clergy
of making false promises of a better life in heaven while people
starved on earth. The song goes: 'Work and pray, live on hay. You'll
get pie in the sky when you die. That's a lie!'
Skin Of Your Teeth.
This saying means to barely escape from a harrowing situation. It
comes from Job 19:20, where God inflicts all sorts of terrible things
on one of those who love him. Poor Job had all his animals stolen, his
children die, his house collapse and his body covered with sores. Job
has this to say; "My bone cleaveth to my skin and to my flesh, and I
am escaped with the skin of my teeth."
Fleshpot. -
Today 'fleshpot' describes decadence. In the time of Moses, it was a
large pot in which to boil meat. Somehow, preachers managed to change
the meaning to scare their flock about 'sins of the flesh'.
To make a scapegoat. -
The poor scapegoat gets the punishment for everyone else's mistakes.
God condoned this cruelty to animals in Leviticus 16:7-10 "And Aaron
shall cast lots upon the two goats; one lot for the Lord, and the
other for the scapegoat." The scapegoat got to escape, and carry the
tribe's sins into the wilderness, to be eaten by some animal instead
of being offered alive as a sacrifice for the Lord.
Get a rabbit's foot, a 4-leaf clover
or even a horseshoe.
If you think that might help,
it could always be true.
But no matter how much it
seems like an unlucky time,
It isn't any fun
to sit home and whine.
So, I've only got one thing to say
Happy Friday the 13th!
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