So This Is Christmas

Merry Christmas is such an infectious feeling I like to feel that way all year around.

So if you are visiting just before Christmas, just after Christmas or even here on Christmas day I am sure you will find something of interest for you and in the spirit of Christmas.

It may be said that Christmas is no longer a celebration but this must be spoken by people that have never had trouble closing their eyes on Christmas Eve in an expectation of what maybe left for them on the carpet under the tree.

I continue to look forward to the surprise on my Grandchild's faces to this day at Christmas events.

Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas - Merry Christmas

Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Black Cat Superstition

By Russ D. Edwards

Most people won't admit to being superstitious. Maybe that's because the definition of superstition' is an unreasonable belief based on stupidity or fear, or both. Nobody wants to appear ignorant or fearful. Yet you may find well-educated, awfully successful people who won't walk under a ladder or who will bury the pieces of a broken mirror or who throw salt over their shoulders if salt is spilled. You will find people who, if a black pussy crosses their path, turn around and go back home or take another path to their destination.

Black cats are somehow related to malicious, with magicians, and even with sickness. Black doggies have been assigned the blame for everything from a run of bad luck to the plague and all the injustices of the Earth.

essentially, gullible ideology change from country to country and even from region to region. Having a black cat cross your path in England or Japan is claimed to bring' luck, but having a black moggy cross your path in America and another European states is said to bring' luck.

Having a black moggy cross your trail isn't the only legend that relies on black cats :

* In Scotland, it is believed that a unusual black cat on your porch brings prosperity. * Italians believe that when a black pussy sneezes, all who hear it'll have good luck. * Egyptians believe the life-giving rays of the sun are kept in the eyes of a cat at night. * In Ireland, murdering a pussy brings 17 years of bad luck. * In America, it's 'bad' luck to see a white cat at night, but 'good' luck to fantasize about a white cat.

ancient Egyptians worshiped pussies, and anyone who killed a cat was executed. In the Middle Ages, when magicians turned into a concern, the black cat was linked to magicians and to devil. Some assumed that a magician has the power to transform herself into the form of a black cat, so the notion that a black pussy that crossed your path was actually a camouflaged hag was born.

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