http://www.mythology.totalroute.net Blog about Mythology Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:05:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Stuttering: Children who are allowed to look at themselves. in the mirror before they are a year old become stutterers. cf. Tickling. Sty: A sty on the eye can be effectually cured by rubbing it with a wedding ring. (STRACKERJAN, Vol. I, ... http://www.mythology.totalroute.net/2007/09/06/mythology-encyclopedia-219/ If while sweeping the room, you find a piece of straw, it is a sign that someone will shortly pay you a visit (Germany). It is unlucky to see a load of straw. It is a bad omen to find two ... http://www.mythology.totalroute.net/2007/09/06/mythology-encyclopedia-218/ Engraved stones with short sentences on them are worn by the Chinese women and children, and are supposed to have great efficacy in preventing evil. (WILLIAMS, M.K., Vol. II, p. 256.) "Meeting anyone carrying stones, bringing a bride, or an animal ... http://www.mythology.totalroute.net/2007/09/05/mythology-encyclopedia-217/ China Review, XIII, 416-418, quoted by BENOY KUMAR SARCAR, Chinese Religion through Hindu Eyes, Shanghai, 1918, p. 62). For other superstitions about shooting stars and meteors, see FRAZER, The Dying God, London, 1920, pp. 6o-68. Stepping over a Child: If ... http://www.mythology.totalroute.net/2007/09/05/mythology-encyclopedia-216/ (East Prussia.-WUTTKE, p. 21.) Stag: Stags draw serpents from their holes by their breath, and then trample them to death. A wound from a stag's horn never heals. A stag's horn gives warning of the ... http://www.mythology.totalroute.net/2007/09/04/mythology-encyclopedia-215/ Spot: If you accidentally make some ink-spots while writing, it is an omen of good luck. In West Highland superstition, a beauty-spot cannot be resisted, hence Diarmaid inspired masterless love by his beauty-spot. Vide Nail. Spriggan: In Cornwall these were certain demons ... http://www.mythology.totalroute.net/2007/09/04/mythology-encyclopedia-214/ No spider will spin its web on an Irish oak. A spider enclosed in a quill and hung round the neck will cure the ague ; in cases of sore-eye or fever, it may be enclosed in a nut-shell and treated likewise. ... http://www.mythology.totalroute.net/2007/09/03/mythology-encyclopedia-213/ Gebr uche der Munda Kolhs, Zeitschr. f. Ethnologie, Vol. III (1871), p. 374; M. GRANET, La religion des Chinois, Paris, 1922, pp. 165 sq.; TYLOR, P.C.. Vol. I, p. 407; id., Early History of Mankind, Vol. I, p. 358; CROOKE, Pop. Rel., ... http://www.mythology.totalroute.net/2007/09/03/mythology-encyclopedia-212/ In Wales it is said that persons on the point of dying can hear a melodious voice singing in the air. (OWEN, p. 305 sq.) Soot: Flakes of soot hanging from the bars of a grate foretell the introduction of a ... http://www.mythology.totalroute.net/2007/09/03/mythology-encyclopedia-211/ snese twyse, yt is a good tokyn, but yf he snese one tyme, yt is an yll syne.XXII. Yf a man lye sicke in bedde and mistrusts himself, and snese one tyme, yt is atokyn of deathe, but yf he snese twyse, he shall escape. ... http://www.mythology.totalroute.net/2007/09/02/mythology-encyclopedia-210/