Are you superstitious? About what? Do you carry talismans to ward off evil spirits?
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Of course I’m superstitious. I’m a hockey fan 🙂
Isn’t that what works to ward off Republicans?
Well, garlic and of course a good dose of truth, facts and reality!
oh wait – Republicans don’t have hearts. 🙂
Póg ma thoin — Kiss my ass.
Lucky to be loved by one. 🙂
(she’s sitting on my BooMan T-shirt)
My old lady – at age 19
Her fur started turning white around the paws and face at age 18 and got more pronounced with age.
She loved living with you so she stayed on as long as she could.
That must be a record or something??
My sweet baby lasted 5½ years after being given 6 months to live because of terminal kidney failure. Thanks to a wonderful vet, he made it to within a week of his 23rd birthday. That was almost 11 years ago and I still miss him. We have three cats now, one from a rescue society, one that was dumped and another one who was the shop cat where I worked that I brought home when the place went out of business. 11, 12, & almost 17.
Ohhhhhhhhh …. what a lovely, lovely cat!
In its newsletter, our local shelter had a wonderful article urging people to adopt black cats. The shelter has a bunch of black cats they can’t adopt out even they have the sweetest temperaments!
Darcy has a black cat named Jinx! he’s a genius cat. No, seriously. There isn’t a door or cupboard that he can’t figure out how to open. (And he has a bread fetish — can’t leave out a loaf of bread — he’ll tear through the wrappings and eat it.)
Kitty is my 3rd black rescue cat. She had been in several foster homes after being found in one of two abandoned trailers that were used to breed cats to “use” to train fighting dogs. They found litters and litters of kittens, and momma cats that were in such horrendous shape and tons of dead, dying cats… they had to put so many of them down. I can not figure out why no one wanted Kitty. Why she went through home after home. My only guess is she was a black cat.
Jack was my first blacking got him from Guam’s Animals In Need. He had lost all his fur because someone threw him a bucket of gasoline. He lived for 9 yrs. The vets didn’t want to even give him his first shots as they didn’t expect him to survive the first 24 hours.
Oscar… was a feral teen and found in a box on the tarmac of NAS Whidbey Island. He was a mean son of a bitch. But he “tolerated” us and got his rocks off by scaring the crap out of me at night. 🙂 He’d try to claw under the doors making his gurglily growly noises… and then would “skip” off all delighted that he annoyed someone 🙂
And Bush blew up frogs???
I want a president who has a rescue pet. Not one that sticks explosives up their butts.
I avoid walking under ladders, and I knock on wood alot, but no talismans, or taliswomen.
I believe in the ‘and it harm none’ and in the 3 theory – for each action or energy that we send it out it returns to us threefold. If we send out positive it comes back to us as postive times 3….same for negative.
Traditional Superstitions – nah – I love black cats, best jobs I’ve ever had were offered on Friday the 13th, walking under ladders is just cause they might spill paint on your head….
But then again – Feng Shui – I have crystals in every window to reflect the positive energy in the house back inside and keep wealth and health from flowing out….
Okay so I can’t make up my mind!
I’m not superstitious but do carry a Zuni carved fetish, a badger. (or mole)
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For me friday 13th is a LUCKY day… after all.. i may be the one everyone has to be superstitious of.
Everyone calibrate their wards on me 😉
Coming across the wires as I write . . .
In any case, they’d better give him a classroom right now this instant or there’s gonna be some mighty smitin’ goin’ on. Outlook for Friday the 13th: Worldwide storms with floodwaters covering everything for 150 days and nights.
Stevie Ray Vaughn, Stevie Wonder
Very superstitious, Writing on the wall
Very superstitious, Ladder’s ’bout to fall
Thirteen month old baby, Broke that looking glass
Seven years of bad luck, Good things in the past
When you believe in things that you don’t understand
Then you suffer, superstition ain’t the way
Very superstitious, wash your face and hands
Rid me of the problem, get all that you can
Keep me in a daydream, keep me going strong
You don’t want to save me, sad is my song
When you believe in things that you don’t understand
Then you suffer, superstition ain’t the way
Very superstitious, nothing more to say
Very superstitious, devil’s on his way
Thirteen month old baby, broke that looking glass
Seven years of bad luck, good things in the past
When you believe in things that you don’t understand
You will suffer, superstition ain’t the way.
Just wanted to share this link, since it’s an open thread:
OK – 17 – seventeen peace keeping missions kept for a year at a cost of one month of war in Iraq.
For heavens sake, give the UN or other humanitaran organizations 1-2 months worth of the adventure-budget for peace-keeping and humanitarian purposes. There would be no better way to combat terrorism, instead of spending billions in a brutal, illegal war that encourages even more terrorism.
I believe that swearing in George W. Bush as President brings at least 8 years of bad luck.
Is it a superstition if it is true?
swearing at him can get you ten to life…
swearing at him could lower your blood pressure.
I no longer can allow myself to watch the SOTU or mainstream news in front of my children. 🙂
The word Friday means Freya’s day. Freya was the Norse goddess of Spring and procreation. Her southern European counterpart was Venus. Hence, Friday in Spain is Viernes and Vendredi in French. Fish were sacred to Freya/Venus, so many Europeans ate fish on Friday to ensure her blessing.
She was also the original trinity. The Maiden, the Mother, and the Crone were the three stages of woman (man only has two – child and adult, as the latter never stops being a potential father).
The number thirteen combines the essence of the mystery of the trinity – the 1 that is 3.
So, Friday the 13 was especially revered, and is an especially good day to celebrate the rites of the Goddess of Love. 😀
I learned a little bit about the triune goddess in the diaries about the Solstice, but I did not know about the Freya/Venus syncretization, or at least it had never occurred to me, nor the origin of the fish custom – which I had thought had to do with the old Catholic custom of not eating meat on the day they believe Jesus was crucified.
But now we see this is all just further evidence of the Pagan conspiracy to take over the world! 😀
As with so many customs of the Catholic Church, it was easier to appropriate and re-name existing practices then it was to quash them outright. Not that they didn’t try the quashing first.
It’s one of the things that makes me hopeful – that humans persist in holding on to our more elemental rites, even when we’ve lost the reason why. Certain things, like celebrating the return of the sun, resonate with our animal selves, even when many of us now live in climate controlled buildings and are otherwise cut-off from nature.
Patriarchy has had to steal its customs and archetypes, as without these ancient connections to mother earth it has no legitimacy. But, each theft contains the seeds of its own undoing, by providing a link to a more authentic, if obscured, human desire.