Are You Superstitious About Lamps?
by Gerald Monroe
http://www.flaglamp.com
The world is full of beliefs and superstitions ~ many of
which have a rich history from somewhere in the deep past.
Old beliefs don~t die easily, though, and some cultures
hold on to them as dearly as a cherished toy from a happy
childhood. While superstitions can be found relating to
just about anything in the material world, here are a few
that specifically relate to lamps.
V~Do display a lamp in the window of the house of someone
who has recently died as then their spirit can come home.
~~Pipe smokers who light their pipe from a lamp will have
an unfaithful wife or lover.
~~Never give someone a lamp that you have used ~ it~s said
to bring bad luck.
~~Girls who carry a lamp to the well on Halloween night
will see a vision of their future husband in the water~s
reflection.
~~If a lamp goes out in the room where a deceased person
was kept prior to their burial, another member of the
family will soon meet their death.
V ~Do take heed of the superstition that if a lamp blows
out in the room where someone lay in rest before being
buried, someone else in the family will die.
V~ Don~t let a youngster play with their shadow made by
the light of a lamp as they will wet their bed that night.
V~Don~t light a lamp if you are experiencing negativity as
it is believed that a lamp is supposed to show you your
destiny.
V~If a miner sees a lady whilst walking to work prior to
reaching the lamp hut they should go back home straight
away or a disaster will occur.
V~ Dropping oil from an oil lamp is bad luck.
V~If someone sitting near a Kerosene lamp hears a
crackling noise this means that a relative is going to
pass away.
V~ The oil which lit the lamp that stood in front of the
tomb of St. Gall had the power to rid the body of tumors.
Every culture has their own particular set of
superstitions surrounding specific items, and these
beliefs carry on through generations of people.
Strangely, while most people claim not to believe in them,
superstitions still enjoy great popularity ~ even in the
most civilized of circles. Who~s to say, then, how these
beliefs (usually reflective of fear) actually come into
being?
Each society has a range of superstitions and these are
handed down from ancestors which help to keep them alive.
We tend to say that we don~t believe in superstitions but
this still doesn~t stop them from being a fantastic source
of entertainment even for extremely well to do people. It
is thought that every superstition has some tiny bit of
truth in them as most them have derived from a fearful
event. However, as they have been retold from family
member to family member they have almost acted like
Chinese whispers and the tales that are told today are
probably totally different to the original.
All the same, no matter how intelligent or sophisticated
we are we all do something to satisfy our superstitions.
Many of us flick salt over our left shoulder when we have
dropped some; we circumvent black cats and ladders like
the plague and love pointing out to someone that let go of
a fork that a lady will be coming to see them very soon.
Whether superstitions can be traced back to a real event
or are simply fears that are brought to the forefront of
our minds when something happens they still give us lots
of laughs and fun.
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