Profile
Photos
Comments
I love to read about superstitions. Some are silly and some have some merit to them.
I personally would not walk under a ladder because I don't want to. I am not scared of black cats and have owned one or two. Salt? Yep, if I spill a bit I do toss some over my left shoulder.
I bought a car on a Friday the 13th one time. The salesman actually asked if we wanted to come back and finalize the paperwork the next day. Nope, we drove the car home that day and had wonderful service from it for many years.
Broken mirror? Tossed away and forgot about seven years of bad luck.
My grandmother was a wealth of information about superstitions and beliefs of the years gone by. I must try to remember as many as I can and one day post for you to read. My favorite ones involved things you were and were not supposed to do on New Year's Day.
Here's one for your bit of information of the day: In medical terms a "stroke" is actually a Cerebral Vascular Accident or CVA. It happens when a blood clot occurs in the brain. The severity depends on the size of the clot, the area where it happened and how long the person waited before treatment. The term "Stroke" actually came from an Old Wive's Tale or superstition. Usually the person woke from a night's sleep unable to move one side of their body or speak clearly. Something happened to them during their sleep. Remember, at the turn of the century folks went to bed with sundown and woke with the sun rising. They believed something happened to that person at "The stroke of midnight", the bewitching hour. Thus, the person had a 'stroke'. This is the only term now accepted as a medical diagnosis that had its origin in folklore. You will see it written on a chart as CVA but the docs and nurses also use the word 'stroke' to describe the condition.
Have a lovely Friday the 13th and look forward to four weeks from now when we have another one!
Mz Scarlett
