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(x-post)nu-onimo is correct, at least as far as I'm concerned.

My other half is from Bristol and has a whole shed load of this superstitious mumbo jumbo. Anyone else heard of not doing washing on Boxing Day because you wash a member of your family away?

― Innocent_Boksen, Friday, 1 September 2006 10:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I've heard that 'bless you' after a sneeze is so a fairy doesn't die, and that if you say 'thank you' to the person that said 'bless you' it dies anyway.

― much_aldo_about_nothing (much_aldo_about_nothing), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

You're not supposed to say thank you because in doing so you re-inhale the germs and then you die. According to my sister.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 1 September 2006 10:35 (seventeen years ago) link

I've told people the 'sneezing and not saying thank you' thing and they all just think I'm a cnut for not saying thank you.

So I keep thanking them just to be popular and fairies die willy-nilly.

― Innocent_Boksen, Friday, 1 September 2006 10:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I have heard of that, but more in the context of bringing good luck rather than "bad things will happen".
-- sleeve (sleev...), September 1st, 2006.

Yeah it's just about fertility innit.

― Masked Gazza, Friday, 1 September 2006 10:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I have heard of that, but more in the context of bringing good luck rather than "bad things will happen".
-- sleeve (sleev...), September 1st, 2006.

ME IN GLASS-IS-HALF-EMPTY SHOCKAH

I love the "washing away a member of your family." This might not be a bad thing. Shed those unwanted family members.

More superstitions, plz.

― Nu-Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 1 September 2006 12:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Rabbit, Rabbit

― Peasant Pains ///\\\/\/\/\/\\\/////\\/\\\\\//\\\/\, Friday, 1 September 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I still do it. Family thing. I wonder if my sister's former ferocious reading of Trixie Belden had something to do with it.

― clotpoll, Friday, 1 September 2006 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

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