SC - Abso-Floggin'-Lutely OT - Re: Funeral Feasts
Elysant at aol.com
Elysant at aol.com
Wed Sep 29 22:13:52 PDT 1999
- -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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