Myths versus Superstitions

~ Gottfried

Hitting your left leg (not your right) on a stone. It is generally seen as a sign of a bad omen and a warning to go back inside. If you’re not poor and have to trek, you probably never have this problem. Also, it doesn’t count if you intentionally hit your left leg on said stone. 

Whistling at night. If you whistle at night, it attracts snakes of all kinds. You’re perfectly safe if you restrict all your whistling to during the day time. The reason is that snakes don’t joke with their siesta, so they sleep during the day and only come out to hunt at night. So choose a good melody.

Crossing over one’s leg. Your ability to reproduce children suddenly ceases when someone crosses over your legs. The only way to break this spell is for the person to cross it back. If the person crosses twice, you have to make them add a bit of hopping and skipping as well. 

Itchy hands. If your hands suddenly start to itch, it means money or some good fortune is coming. I have confirmed it myself. During the holidays in December, as soon as my palms started to itch, I would know that my uncle was in the living room counting money in readiness to dash me.

Hitting a man with a broom. Apart from it being painful, you can also make them impotent, unless they hit back. The gag is that they have to hit you twice as hard to ensure that they stamp out the impotence completely. It’s also a common effective birth control method these days. 

Bending over to look through your legs if you want to see witches. Initially when you try this, you’ll only see normal people appear upside down, because of the position you’re looking from. But as soon as you squint a bit with your left eye, Lucifer Morningstar will appear!

Eating from the ground. Never mind the three-second-rule, as soon as your food touches the ground, the devil takes a bite. And you can empathize with the devil because she’s usually very hungry and never misses a chance for a good snack. That’s all she’s allowed. 

Answering a ghost’s call. If you hear your name in the dark and answer without seeing the caller, you’ve answered a ghost’s call. As you should. The last ghost I had a chat with spoke at length about how lonesome it gets just hiding there in the dark, calling to people. 

Seeds will grow a tree in your stomach. Parents should stop warning children that swallowing the seeds of fruits like mangoes or oranges would lead to a tree sprouting inside their belly. There’s world hunger coupled with a vitamin deficiency, we need all the help we can get.

First customer credit policy. I have zero credit policy myself and I think it’s a bad look for the first customer of the day to buy on credit. Of course the rest of the customers that day will buy on credit, because the first customer is a gossip who told everyone about our little credit secret. 

Sitting on a mortar prevents marriage. I finally traced your problem with getting married. As a young girl, you were often told not to sit on a mortar, as doing so would prevent you from getting married. Did you listen? No! Now you’re wondering why you can’t have kids.

Of course you believe me. You don’t have a choice.

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

32 thoughts on “Myths versus Superstitions”

  1. SMiLes Mr Gottfried It Seems Superstitions ‘Better Reflect’
    The Human Nocebo Effect as Negative Beliefs Will Bring

    Negative Actions and Yes Health Wise Effects to

    Our Well Being in Detrimental Ways

    Whereas Mythologies Often House

    Human Archetypes Ranging From

    The Hero Through the Villain

    And Yes the Relationship still

    Tween ‘The Beauty and the Beast’

    It’s Like the Catholic Church i visited today

    In Terms of ‘Keeping the Faith and Running

    A Good Race of Life’ Making Positive Impacts on
    Those We Lift Up More than Tear Down so Impactful

    Mythologies are in Modern Comic Book Ways on the Big Screen

    That the Priest Asked A Child Who Fights the Good Fight to Prevent

    Crime Hehe and Instead of Suggesting a Cop or the Good Cop Jesus

    The Child

    Related

    ‘Superman’

    to Prevent Crime

    As Superman Yes the
    Hero Archetype on the Big
    Screen seemed as real as
    Real Gets to That Child With

    Hopes of Preventing and Solving Crimes

    Hmm Yes Mythology to the Rescue Yet it will
    Also Come to Be Placebo in Healing Impact Not

    Unlike a Little Wafer of Bread and Some Wine Suggested
    aS How to Eat ‘The Good Book Man’ Yes Consume His Body
    And Blood as Union in Healing Way for All of What Ills Us Now

    And True for Those
    Who Truly Do Believe
    The Power of Suggestion
    When Fully Trusted With Faith

    Will Bring Tremendous Potential Healing
    Yep Placebo Remedying Terminal Illness
    Put in the Files of Unexplained Recoveries

    Not Something Science Can Directly Measure
    Discretely as Far aS How This Works Yet considering
    Science Does Suggest our Word Thinking Minds Only
    Comprise about .5 Percent of the Processes that Make

    Us Who We
    Are Now And
    Do As Human

    That Deeper Ocean
    of Humanity Beyond
    Thinking Controls of Words

    iS A Mystery Always Unfolding Newly Now

    i Understand the Real Power of Faith Belief Hope and LoVE iN Peace

    So i Create my own ‘Sugar Pills in Mythological Stories’ on the Go
    True Some Days the Mythology in Reality Precedes the Story Never

    Fictional
    From the
    Beginning
    Always Now

    As Reality New continues
    to Birth Mythology For Real

    Story Rules Humanity Through
    Words Inspiring Healing and Harmful

    Neurochemicals and Neurohormones from Head to Toe
    And More Key Yes Use Placebo More than Nocebo to Move ahead

    With

    SMiLes New

    Never Worrying
    Now About where
    We Toss a Pinch of Salt..:)

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      1. “Superstition means constantly searching for a cop out”

        Yes It’s True Mr Gottfried Fear and Superstition Are Close
        Bedfellows Indeed Leaves Ya Both Shaking Your Head

        And Nodding

        From What
        The Human

        Condition has Always
        Been Hehe Not Particularly

        Rational as Science Still Shows

        Ruled By Stories Both Dark and
        Light to Bond and Bind for Social

        Groups to Intertwine

        Over Light

        Or Dark

        to Get the
        Job of Survive
        And Even Thrive Done

        Hmm True i’ve Been Rather
        ‘Cursed’ ThiS Way By Only
        The Format of the Date of
        my Birth on my Driver’s License

        Yes 6.6.60 As my Conception Date
        As Delivered By my Mother’s Gynecologist

        Is Rising Up to 66 Years on Or About the
        Fall Equinox Next Week Which Means in 1959
        9 Months Thereafter around the Summer Solstice

        on June 20th, 1960 Yes close
        to the Beginning of
        Summer was

        my Scheduled
        Delivery Date

        Yet the Baby Doctor
        Went on Vacation and
        by ‘Omen’ hehe Induced
        Labor 2 weeks early on 6.6.60
        As ‘Marked’ on my Driver’s License still hehe

        Yes the ‘FunDaMenTaLisT Christian Cashiers’ at
        the Local Walmart Back when they Carded me for
        the Occasional Beer Purchase in my 40’s to make
        Sure i wasn’t Younger than 21 Hehe and Nah i Didn’t
        Make Any Deal With Any Horned Devil with a Tail to Stay

        Young Looking

        That Way

        Expressed Sheer
        Terror Seeing those
        3 Sixes in a Row
        on my Driver’s

        License

        (As i
        Pondered

        W T F)

        Although it’s
        True Folks at the
        Dance Hall ‘Demanded’
        to See my Driver’s License
        to Prove How Old i was Reaching
        Age 60 still with my Fresh Born on Date
        at the Dance Hall

        Till Covid-19
        Shut it down
        on 3.12.2020

        And my Wife Decided
        Hehe i Wasn’t Going back
        in Fear of Drunken Folks
        Scratching up our New SUV

        And Maybe Her Driver me
        As She Doesn’t Drive With Epilepsy of Course

        Oh Yeah And Speaking of that the Old Christian
        Way of Deeming Folks With Epilepsy like my Wife
        Were Demon Possessed to Burn at the Stake as Witches too

        True Human
        Superstitions
        Have an Illustrious

        DarK HiSToRY of Harming

        Each Other and the Rest of Nature

        Like Believing Pigs Get Possessed
        And Sending them off to their Death

        Over a Cliff too

        Hehe thank
        God that
        Was Just
        A Fictitious
        Story and No Pigs
        Were Harmed in
        Delivering the Story

        Or Like the Belief that
        Wolves Are somehow
        Evil When We Deliver
        All They Can Eat Sheep

        All Penned Up as Such

        As They Stop Cooperating
        With Each Other as Instant
        Gratification Replaces their

        Need for Wolf Brother and or Sisterhood

        Where Even The Omega Wolf Has a Valuable

        Place to Make
        the Entire
        Wolf Pack

        Continue to Survive
        And Even Thrive Dancing
        With Wolves in Full Moonlit Nights

        Yep as Stevie Wonder Once Sang
        and Still Does on YouTube TG for Real

        “Very superstitious writings on the wall

        Very superstitious, ladders ’bout to fall

        13-month-old baby, broke the looking glass

        Seven years of bad luck, the good thing is in your past

        When you believe in things that you don’t understand

        Then you suffer

        Superstition ain’t the way

        Ooh, very superstitious, wash your face and hands
        Rid me of the problems, do all that you can

        Keep me in a daydream, keep me going strong
        You don’t wanna save me, sad is my song
        When you believe in things you don’t understand

        Then you suffer”

        SMiLes Mr Gottfried
        Stevie Wonder Didn’t Need Eyes
        to See How the Ignorance
        of Human Superstitions

        (Conspiracy Theories, etc)

        Harm Rape Maim

        And Kill Each

        Other and
        The Rest
        of Nature Most

        Now With the Loss of Flesh
        And Blood Places Where Humans
        Bond and Bind Over Common Symbols
        And Ideologies Beyond Home and Work/School

        Yes the ‘Third Places’ of Community Like Church

        And Bowling

        Alley’s

        With their
        Common League
        Play Defeating the
        10 Pin God Hehe

        Now We Have the ‘Darkest
        Corners of the Web’ Where

        Evil May Rise Even More Dark
        Than Ever Before True Who Needs

        Halloween anymore

        No Longer

        Fictitious
        Now Real
        As Humans
        In the Dark
        Corners of Their
        Soul Bring Evil to Fruition For Real

        As Nightmares

        Aren’t
        only
        Nightmares anymore

        (That Hasn’t Changed)

        Hmm as An Anthropology
        Participant Observe Still Taking

        Notes for 65 Years Breathing

        All About the
        Human

        So-Called

        Condition
        Thanks for
        the Page of
        Your Blog

        to take
        Notes

        Today
        With
        SMiLEs
        Mr Gottfried..:)

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  4. If you wash clothes at night, it means you’re planning evil for your mother-in-law.

    Also, I see what you did there ooo. The devil is now a she. 😂 It’s alright

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  6. I have always not believed in either myths or superstitions. In my opinion, it shows how human lacks critical thinking to understand how life works. Whistling is a sound , either you whistle in the morning, noon or night, animals who’s auditory nerves are in tandem with such tunes would definitely move towards the direction of the sound.

    Also, if a worthy creditor ask for credit in the morning, and is the first, won’t you give credit, especially when it comes with interest, if it were that true, banks shouldn’t exist because they give credits daily.

    There’s so much more I’m willing to dispel, but I need to take a quick bath and head to school. This was a good read with a dash of humor. Thank you.

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  8. Gosh, I did all the things my grandma told me not to do: throwing the trash in the east, sweeping my feet with a broom, letting anyone cross my legs, and I am sure there was one more but I can’t remember. Do them all and you won’t get married. I never wanted to, so I did them on purpose 😅😅

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  9. Whatever we believe to be true tends to become true for us. We can see that with psychological defense mechanisms and confirmation bias, where we subconsciously seek out evidence of what we believe to be true. It’s whatever you believe to be true!

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  10. 😅How about keeping things with your left hand and searching all year for them!? This one dealt with me sha.

    I can’t remember how I snapped out of it.

    I remember then I sometimes had to deliberately remember to keep things with my right hand just so I won’t search for them aimlessly without success or with a delayed success. Omo! These myths are rubbish and ingredients🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    ‘Twas a nice read with a touch of humor as always.

    Welldone o. Lucifer is who again?🙄

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