DWQA Questions › Tag: folkloreFilter:AllOpenResolvedClosedUnansweredSort byViewsAnswersVotes“Bad luck comes in threes.” But then so does good luck as the “hat trick” in hockey celebrates. Pappas writes: “Remember confirmation bias? The belief that bad luck comes in threes is a classic example. A couple of things go wrong, and believers may start to look for the next bit of bad luck. A lost shoe might be forgotten one day, but seen as the third in a series of bad breaks the next.” What is Creator’s perspective on “bad luck comes in threes?”ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs164 views0 answers0 votesPappas writes: “According to folklore, breaking a mirror is a surefire way to doom yourself to seven years of bad luck. The superstition seems to arise from the belief that mirrors don’t just reflect your image; they hold bits of your soul. That belief led people in the old days of the American South to cover mirrors in a house when someone died, lest their soul be trapped inside.” What can Creator tell us about mirrors and the widespread belief in their hazards?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs182 views0 answers0 votes“Knock on wood.” Pappas writes, “This phrase is almost like a verbal talisman, designed to ward off bad luck after tempting fate: ‘Breaking that mirror didn’t bring me any trouble, knock on wood.’ The fixation on wood may come from old myths about good spirits in trees or from an association with the Christian cross. Similar phrases abound in multiple languages, suggesting that the desire not to upset a spiteful universe is very common.” What can Creator tell us about “knocking on wood?”ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs168 views0 answers0 votes“Cross your fingers.” Pappas writes: “Those wishing for luck will often cross one finger over another, a gesture that’s said to date back to early Christianity. The story goes that two people used to cross index fingers when making a wish, a symbol of support from a friend to the person making the wish. (Anything associated with the shape of the Christian cross was thought to be good luck.) The tradition gradually became something people could do on their own.” What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs149 views0 answers0 votes“Throwing salt over your shoulder.” Salt is thought to create a spiritual barrier that evil spirits cannot cross, or find difficult to cross. Many magicians and sorcerers use it to create “magic circles” with the thought that if they stay inside, they will be protected from the very demons they conjure. What can Creator tell us about the spiritual properties of salt, if any?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs203 views0 answers0 votes“Don’t step on a crack!” This is from artsandculture.google.com, an article entitled 18 Superstitions from Around the World: “As with mirrors, cracks—in the earth, on a sidewalk, or almost anywhere—have long been seen as portals to the realm of the supernatural, for both good and ill. To step on those cracks might be to invite or release unwelcome spirits into the world ready to do one harm.” What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs140 views0 answers0 votesSuperstitions may seem silly and innocuous at first glance, but some people worry about them a great deal. Some to the point of having genuine panic attacks if they discover they violated one. How does someone get in this state? Does subconscious mind control contribute? What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs216 views0 answers0 votesEastern Europeans, it seems, have a much longer list of superstitions that concern them than those of the West. Does the fact these countries have been war-torn and decidedly less free have anything to do with this? A woman who came here from Ukraine twenty years ago, won’t use leftovers “because it’s pig food” even though she no longer has a pig, so leftovers end up in the garbage. She worries about knives left out because they foment discord when unsheathed. And anything used she purchases she leaves outside for “cleansing,” regardless of whether rain is in the forecast or not. As a result, more garbage is created when it inevitably rains. Yet there is simply no talking her out of any of these worries or practices. What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs175 views0 answers0 votesA great many superstitions seem to revolve around an obsession with evil, and warding it off, especially. Can Creator share with us how Empowered Prayer and the Lightworker Healing Protocol will do more to protect you and your loved ones than slavish adherence to timeworn superstitions, even and especially if there is something to them?ClosedNicola asked 1 year ago • Limiting Beliefs211 views0 answers0 votesMany of today’s questions are inspired by the book Witchcraft in Illinois by Historian Michael Kleen. The history of witchcraft in Illinois is scattered and sparse. But what remains, especially a massive folk compilation of just one county, suggests that even as recently as a century ago, folk knowledge of witchcraft was common, also suggesting that the practice of witchcraft was once common as well. Kleen wrote, “Convinced of American progress, historians dismissed witchcraft as a ‘miserable superstition’ and an ‘imaginary crime’ long vanished from educated minds.” What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • High Level Psychic Attacks, Curses143 views0 answers0 votesWe learned recently from Creator that Reptilians taught sorcery to early Native Americans. One of the feared powers of witches was the supposed power to “shapeshift” and take on the form of an animal. A great many folk tales recount incidents of witches taking on the form of a black cat, for instance, to stalk the witch’s victims. Were some of these incidents genuine, but involving shapeshifting Reptilians taking on the persona of a witch in order to spread fear and disbelief?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • High Level Psychic Attacks, Curses192 views0 answers0 votesOne of the recurring themes in witchcraft lore is the notion of witches “selling their soul to the devil” in exchange for their magical powers. And while Creator has taught that such a thing cannot happen in actuality, the belief in the validity of this pact can turn this fiction into experiential fact, in that the divine is constrained to honor the belief and choices of such practitioners, leaving them unprotected, and open playthings for the interlopers to have their way with. Not to mention the severe karmic ramifications for the harm inflicted on the self and others as a consequence. What is Creator’s perspective?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • High Level Psychic Attacks, Curses155 views0 answers0 votesKleen noted that religion, although according to history being widely practiced, was actually rarely used to combat fear and victimization by witchcraft. Rather, what was popular was “fighting fire with fire,” in that those fancying themselves and loved ones and neighbors and associates as victims of witchcraft would fight back, essentially, with witchcraft of their own, by hiring or engaging witch doctors or witch masters who would combat the witch for them—for a fee of course. Others fearing being “bewitched” would resort to folk defenses such as shooting silver bullets at effigies of suspected witches. Since such remedies leave out the divine, the likelihood of massive karmic missteps for all involved seems obvious. What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • High Level Psychic Attacks, Curses141 views0 answers0 votesA great deal of witchcraft and belief in witchcraft revolved around agriculture. One particularly interesting belief was the notion that witches could steal a cow’s milk with the use of a towel. The story goes that the witch would hang a towel on a rack, kneed and squeeze a corner of the towel as if it was a teat, and draw milk out of the towel and into a waiting bucket as if it was the cow itself. This was suspected when farmers would suddenly and unexpectedly have “dry cows.” Is there ANY truth to these stories? What is the real backstory?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • High Level Psychic Attacks, Curses153 views0 answers0 votesOne of the more startling Illinois stories surrounding bewitching is that of the Williams sisters. Sixteen and eighteen years old, the two girls were reportedly normal by day, but in the evening would run off into the corn and then “returned to their home, and with almost supernatural ability, climbed to the roof and began dancing near its precarious edge. Their father, James Williams, in front of around fifty spectators, pleaded with his daughters to come down. They replied with animal-like shrieks and groans.” Even the New York Times picked up this 1871 story. The sisters claimed to have been bewitched by an old woman who lived nearby in retribution for refusing to become witches themselves. What can Creator tell us?ClosedNicola asked 2 years ago • High Level Psychic Attacks, Curses152 views0 answers0 votes
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