KRISTEN'S BOARD
KB - a better class of pervert

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #80 on:** October 17, 2012, 08:49:50 AM

When the girl finally gets to walk down the aisle as a bride, she can enhance her luck in married life by omitting to put on any underwear under her wedding dress, according to one tradition from the English Midlands. This superstition may derive from the old belief that a bride who wore nothing but her wwdding dress when she got marriedwas excused of past debts, for which her new husband would otherwise have been liable in years gone by.
Women lament the appearance of a hole in a pair of stockings, buy the discovery of two at the same time is said to be a good omen and suggests that the person concerned will shortly be receiving an unexpected present.
If newly washed stockings curl up while drying, meanwhile, this constitutes a prediction of happy times ahead, possibly in the form of a new love affair.
Furthermore, a woman who has trouble doing up suspenders and has to refasten them three times may console herself that this guarantees her a good day ahead.

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #81 on:** October 17, 2012, 08:53:00 AM

Anyone who is suffering from a sore throat is advised that wrapping a stocking still warm from the leg of a new bride around the affected part will bring relief - though acquiring such a stocking in the first place may prove a challenge."

TinyDancer · **Reply #82 on:** October 18, 2012, 03:14:04 PM

Lots of very interesting trivia in this blog Jim.....thanks for sharing it with the board.

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #83 on:** October 18, 2012, 04:18:59 PM

**October 18th**
Yawning
"All actions to do with breath have their magic aspect. Most people are familiar with the rule of etiquette that a person that a person should cover his mouth when yawning but may be unaware that this has its roots in medieval superstition, when it was thought that evil spirits could get inside a person's body when their mouth was open so wide - though making the sign of the cross prevented this happening.
Elsewhere in Europe it is suggested that yawning too long will allow the soul to escape the body and the habit should therefore be discouraged.
In some cultures a yawn may be interpreted as a death omen, which must be countered at once by snapping the fingers."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #84 on:** October 19, 2012, 10:00:35 AM

**October 19th**
Yellow
"As one of the unluckiest of all colours, yellow is generally associated with cowardice, sickness and death (though some people connect it with the life-giving sun). Yellow leaves that appear on peas or bean plants are suppose to presage a death in the household, and even evil spirits are said to avoid the colour. Actors and actresses in particular sometimes show a reluctance to wear it."

Poodle
"German superstition reserves a special place for the poodle, claiming that black poodles will lurk in the vicinity of the graves of the clergy as evidence of their failure to live up to their calling during their lifetime. The reason why, of all dogs, the black poodle should be sensitive to such characters is lost in the mist of time."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #85 on:** October 20, 2012, 05:36:09 PM

** October 20th**
Palpitations
"An involuntary fluttering sensation in the heart, the eye or the muscles, which is said by some to be an omen.
Palpitations on the right side of the body signify good luck, but if they are felt on the left side of the body misfortune is in store."

Plover
"The plover is, in English superstition at least, an unlucky bird.
Hearing its call in spring may have dire consequences if the person does not have any money about them at the time: it signifies that they will remain hard up until the following spring.
Seven plovers seen in flight together ia also unlucky."

Prostitute
"Superstition claims that it is lucky to meet a prostitute in the street, especially early in the morning, in which case the rest of the day's business will turn out well.
Prostitutes are, however, less welcome on board ships, where their presence is said to provoke storms."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #86 on:** October 21, 2012, 06:40:00 AM

**October 21st**
Periwinkle
"Evergreen plant with a blue flower which has a somewhat dark reputation, being traditionally linked with witchcraft and death.
The Italians used to adorn dead babies with garlands of periwinkle, and in former times heretics burned at the stake were given periwinkle crowns.
Maintaining the link with death, a Welsh tradition warns that anyone who picks a periwinkle from a grave will suffer for a whole year from nightmares about the dead person buried there.
In Germany, the periwinkle is considered the flower of immortality.
A more cheerful English superstition advises that if a man and a woman eat the leaves of a periwinkle together they will fall passionately in love.
In folk medicine, perwinkle leaves may be chewed to treat hemorrhages and toothache.
The plant may also be used in treatment for diabetes, and scientists have verified that it is in fact rich in valuable alkaloids."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #87 on:** October 22, 2012, 06:50:28 AM

**October 22nd**
Werewolf
"In pan-European superstitition, a man who in certain circumstances changes into a wolf and then hunts down and feeds on human prey. Fear of werewolves is very ancient.
People likely to become werewolves are said to include those who are born out of wedlock or have birthdays on Christmas Eve, and anyone who has unusually hairy hands and flat fingers or eyebrows that meet over the nose.
In legends, some people control their transformation, becoming wolves on donning wolfskin coats or belts.
Like the vampire, the werewolf is invulnerable to many forms of attack and can only be killed by a silver bullet, which should ideally be blessed by a priest.
Rather more simply, they may be cured by calling out three times the Christian name of the person who has thus been transformed.

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #88 on:** October 22, 2012, 06:53:21 AM

Some authorities have drawn a link between the werewolf of legend, as reshaped by Hollywood, with the medical condition known as lycanthropy, in which the patient develops a taste for raw meat and shows a tendency to howl and run around naked."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #89 on:** October 23, 2012, 07:02:16 AM

**October 23rd**
Vampires
"Supernatural beings that feed on the blood of the living and is universally identified with evil. The long-fanged vampire has a time-honoured history in many of the world's cultures and the idea of this merciless, blood-sucking monster still captures the imagination, as evidenced by the plethora of vampire movies in the modern cinema.
Vampires are variously thought to be reincarnated 'undead' corpses of criminals or heretics, or simply the victims of another vampire's infectious bite. Alternatively, one tradition from southern Europe claims that babies who are born with teeth are destined to become vampires.
Transylvania, the home of the semi-legendary Hungarian ruler Vlad Dracula who was renowned for his bloodthirsty ways, is usually identified as the traditional haunt of such beings."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #90 on:** October 24, 2012, 10:28:32 AM

**October 24th**
Vampires(con't)
"Supertitions, aided and abetted by Dracula author Bram Stoker, has furnished the vampire with an extraorinarily detailed body of curious traditions.
It is said that vampires cast no reflection (because the reflection embodies the soul and the vampire has no soul); that they have a strong aversion to the light of the sun, which may destroy them; and that they may be obliged to return to their coffins - lined with soil from their birthplace - during the day.
They may also be credited with hypnotic powers, wiith exerting a tremendous sexual hold over women and with the power of turning themselves into bats when going in search of prey.
Attempts to track down the vampire superstitions to some basis in reality have drawn links between the creature's taste for blood and its hatred of sunlight with the symptoms of various obscure diseases that can inspire such reactions.

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #91 on:** October 24, 2012, 10:30:33 AM

Psychologists, though, prefer to assign the continuing evolution of the vampire over the centuries to repressed eroticism and sado-masochism in society."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #92 on:** October 25, 2012, 07:26:59 AM

[I'll spend the rest of the month delving into the superstitions connected with my favorite holiday... ;-) Enjoy. G]

**October 25th**
Hallowe'en
"Festival, celebrated on October 31st, when ghosts roam abroad and witches traditionally hold their sabbaths.
Originally a pagan festival of the dead, Hallowe'en marked the end of the Celtic year. It was said that the sun itself entered the gates of Hell on this date, providing an opportunity for evil spirits to slip out and menace the Earth for forty-eight hours - hence the ominous associations of the modern version of the festivals.
Attempts to Christianise the festival by making it the eve of All Hallow's Day or All Saint's Day, when Christian saints and martyrs are commemorated, have failed to obliterate its essentially pagan character, emphasis by the now ubiquitous imagery of broomstick-riding witches and grotesque masks fashioned from hallowed-out pumpkins which are meant to scare away demons."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #93 on:** October 26, 2012, 06:28:58 AM

**October 26th**
Hallowe'en (con't)
"Hallowe'en is the one time of year when the supernatural holds sway over the Earth, and numerous superstitions are associated with it. These range from protective rituals to kep evil spirits at bay to means of divining what the future has in store.
One of the most widely held notions connected with the festival is the blood-chilling idea that on this date the souls of the dead make their way back to their earthly homes to warm themselves at their old firesides. In many quarters it is thought dangerous to hinder the dead from returning in this way, and Hallowe'en is generally considered a time when extra care should be taken not to linger in churchyards or do anything that might offend the fairies or other malicious sprites."

[As i read the part about not lingering in churchyards, i could hear the "Thriller" zombie music in my head and was so glad i wasn't in a churchyard at night as i read it... G]

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #94 on:** October 27, 2012, 08:23:28 AM

**October 27th**
Hallowe'en (con't)
"Children born on Hallowe'en will enjoy lifelong protection against evil spirits and will alo be endowed with the gift of second sight.
In rural areas farmers may circle their fields with lighted torches in the belief that doing so will safeguard the following year's harvest, or else drive their livestock between branches of Rowan to keep them safe from evil influences.
Most surviving Hallwe'en superstitions concern the business of foretelling the future, in particular getting a glimpse of a future partner.
According to Welsh tradition, anyone going to a crossroads on Hallowe'en and listening carefully to the wind may learn what the next year has in store and, when the church clock strikes midnight, will hear a list of the names of those who are to die in the locality over the next twelve months."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #95 on:** October 28, 2012, 06:59:52 AM

**October 28th**
Hallowe'en (con't)
"Several of the most widely known Hallowe'en divination rituals relate to apples. Superstition suggests that, if a girl stands before a mirror while eating an apple and combing her hair at midnight on Hallowe'en, her future husband's image will be reflected in the glass over her left shoulder. A variant dictates she must cut the apple into nine pieces, each of which must be stuck on the point of the knife and held over the left shoulder. Moreover, if she peels the apple in one long piece, and then tosses the peel over her left shoulder or into a bowl of water, she will be able to read the first initial of her future partner's name in the shape the assumed by the discarded peel. Alternately, the peel is hung on a nail by the front door and the initials of the first man to enter will be the same as those of the unknown lover."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #96 on:** October 29, 2012, 06:39:08 AM

**October 29th**
Hallowe'en (con't)
"Hallowe'en is also the occassion on which groups of unmarried boys and girls twirl apples on a string over a fire, the order in which the apples fall off the strings indicates the order in which they will be married (the owner of the last apple to drop will remain unmarried).
Yet another Hallowe'en custom is the game of ducking for apples: without using their hands, children attempt to take bites out of apples floating in a bowl of water or suspended on a string. Superstition has it that they are fated to marry the owner of the apple they manage to bite. Alternatively the winner of the game takes the apple to bed and sleeps with it under their pillow so as to get a vision of a future spouse in their dreams."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #97 on:** November 02, 2012, 03:39:01 AM

**October 30th**
Hallowe'en (con't)
"Other customs involve blindfolded girls pulling up cabbages and examining the shape of the root to make conclusions about a future spouse, throwing nuts into the fire to see if they jump (if they do, a lover will prove unfaithful), sprinkling letters cut out of a newspaper on to some water to see what name theyform (that of a future lover) and inviting a blindfolded person to place their left hand on one of three dishes, one filled with clean water, one with foul water and the last empty. If the clean water is chosen, the person's future partner will be attractive and desirable; if the foul water is selected, he or she will already have been married; if the empty dish is chosen, there will be no partner at all."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #98 on:** November 02, 2012, 04:24:09 AM

**October 31st**
Hallowe'en (con't)
"Some girls may be tempted to follow the ritual of eating a salad herring before retiring for the night: the resulting thirst will summon up the sympathetic spirit of the future partner who will come with a drink of water.
More complicated is the ancient procedure in which a person dips their sleev in a stream at a point where land belonging to three people meets, and then goes home and hangs the sleeve in front of the fire: during the night the spirit of the future spouse will materialize and turn the sleeve to allow the other side to dry."

Candle
Candles that burn with a blue flame betray the presence of a supernatural spirit and are an omen of imminent death, as is a candle that gutters and creates a trail or 'winding sheet' of melted wax (this is sometimes taken to apply to the person sitting nearest to it)."

GEMINIGUY · **Reply #99 on:** November 02, 2012, 04:27:15 AM

Had to finish this two days late bot it is complete for this year.
To all who had been keeping up with my Halloween Blog, thank you so much! Feel free to leave any comments now.
I'll be posting a 'Christmas Blog' this year, i found a great deal of superstitons regarding that holiday.

HALLOWEEN BLOG

TinyDancer