Do you have any superstitions?

[Murphy]

Don’t look em in the left eye - random hippy circa 1990.

 

[version]

It doesn't have the same aesthetic impact but as an icon and intermediary it works just as well

I don't think it does. Isn't religious art supposed to inspire awe and overwhelm you? Hard to be awed by a tacky figurine.

 

[luka]

No, it's not art. It's an icon, an inferface and intermediary

 

[Murphy]

Try that with holy water from Lourdes. An aunt had a flagon she used for years and it never went mouldy (apparently).

 

[martin]

It doesn't have quite the same effect though, does it? It's Benjamin's aura. There's a power to a Michelangelo that you don't get from a bargain bin.

Dunno, I found some of those tacky figurines eerie and unsettling, especially in low light. Same as some of the mass-produced prayer/relic cards. I do quite like Catholic kitsch, though.

 

[Murphy]

@martin

 

[Murphy]

Not to YT the thread into kibitzer land, but

 

[martin]

We went to Knock once, where the statue of the Blessed Virgin was meant to be weeping blood. She wasn't. My dad said "She must have stopped for today".
Then had to sit through the most excruciatingly boring mass ever.

 

[Murphy]

Louch Derg was a mare. Barefoot, all night prayers. Really heavy. Louch Derg soup too - boiled water with salt and pepper. There are a few indo-Euro myths about lake circuits.

 

[Leo]

in baseball, you never see a pitcher step on the white foul line when walking on or off the mound. sometimes they miss it in their natural stride, but often you notice they adjust their step in order to pass over instead of on it.

 

[Leo]

one man's superstition is another man's religious ritual. Observant Jews who touch the mezuzah affixed to a doorway wall and then kiss their finger when entering a room.

 

[catalog]

I love how the footballers come out praying.

 

[catalog]

Exams and interviews. I dont really have lucky clothes but I do have a lucky conker

 

[Murphy]

The placebo effect turned into lore.

 

[luka]

a lot of people avoid walking through 'the king's legs.' i see this on the street all the time.

 

[luka]

i often avoid it too though ive been trying not to over the last few years.

 

[mixed_biscuits]

"Good morning, Mr Magpie; how's your wife today?" - that's mine

 

[Leo]

he lives!

 

[Leo]

I just had covid, @mixed_biscuits. wasn't bad at all, you were right all along.

 

[martin]

On the Ryukyu island chain (an arc from Kyushu to Taiwan including Okinawa), if you kill a cat with a car, the car will be haunted by the cat’s dead spirit. To counter this, bury the cat at the edge of the town with cooked rice, bean paste and salt. On the same islands, cats are sometimes eaten for medicinal purposes.

In Akita, if a cat or dog dies you should spit on it three times and walk around the corpse three times to dispel the bad luck; if you do not do this, the spirit of the animal will haunt you. Alternatively, you can leave the corpse in a bamboo forest.

If you leave a cat with a dead body, the body will dance.