SC - Abso-Floggin'-Lutely OT - Re: Funeral Feasts

[Elysant at aol.com]

- -Poster: <Elsyant at aol.com>
 
 CorwynWdwd at aol.com wrote
>  > the same way you come in or you're inviting death in... I'd never heard 
of
>  > this, but HAD heard that if a bird gets indoors it had to leave the same 
> way,
>  > or you invite death.
 
Then Master A. said:
>  This is fascinating stuff! Both of these (i.e. the above and the
>  tradition Ras mentions about not inviting Death to enter the home) are
>  part of a huge European (and non-European) body of apotropaics connected
>  with death that has culminated in some cultures in a belief in vampires
>  and similar bugaboos. The thing I find odd is that while many, many
>  people seem to have such traditions (I won't use the "s" word but it
>  would be perfectly appropriate here), very few of such cultures would
>  today profess a belief in vampires or related folkloric phenomena.

eerrr.... actually, in Wales we do still think that if a wild bird flies into 
the house 
there will shortly be a death associated in some way with one of the people 
who 
live (or work) there.  (And yes I've seen it happen too - more than once).
 
Elysant 
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