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3 days ago · Paint Your Porch Ceiling Haint Blue. If you walk onto a porch in the South, chances are high that the ceiling may be painted a beautiful shade of sky blue. This isn't quite for aesthetic purposes—painting your ceiling this hue, known as haint blue, will keep evil spirits from entering your home. This superstition started on the coasts of ...
1 day ago · Ayida-Weddo is the rainbow serpent of Voodoo and is a deity of fertility, wind, fire, water, snakes, and the rainbow. The red part of the rainbow serpent is male and the blue part is female. The rainbow serpent wraps its body around the earth and protects it from collapsing.
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5 days ago · Finnegans Wake is a novel by Irish writer James Joyce. It is known for its experimental style and its reputation as one of the most difficult works of fiction in the Western canon. [1] Written over a period of seventeen years and published in 1939, the novel was Joyce's final work. It is written in a largely idiosyncratic language that blends ...
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4 days ago · ‘Superstition’ (photo: ChameleonsEye / Shutterstock) ‘Superstition is the deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes. … To attribute the efficacy of prayers or of sacramental signs to their mere external performance, apart from the interior dispositions that they demand, is to fall into superstition ...
1 day ago · This is probably a local superstition rather than people thinking it is a clinical psychological cure. Users on this forum have to understand that maybe the majority of the world doesn't conform to the Western idea of psychology. Perhaps those people think the hyena is biting away the spirits attached to her.
there are several, some are a bit ridiculous though: 1- Sitting cross legged kills your parents (or diminishes their lifespan) 2- resting your hands on your head does the same as above 3- In Senegal we all eat in community. there is this sort of bitter eggplant called "djakhatou" and if you are a guest and you are ever offered some, you have to eat it (even if you don't like it) as refusing to ...
7 hours ago · Texas Tech alum Sofia Garcia balancing the dream and job aspects of LPGA Tour life. There are layers to the term dream job. Sofia Garcia can attest to that. On the one hand, Garcia is living out ...
