Recently, giant American ensign is ripped by fierce wind two half. Media says this banner is 140 feet long (add up to 42.67 meters about) , 70 feet wide (add up to 21.34 meters about) , dry when weigh 340 pounds (add up to 154.22 kilogram about) , be the biggest on the world flying model American ensign.

Groups big asked, if American is superstitious, does this meeting have a place in the heart that what?

Is that American superstitious?

But too superstitious ah...

These of an old American belief " blackart " Duobukesai is discussed? Pick a few everybody to savour know:

Want to treat good cold, use a hand (do not use a base) mount a Gao Shu, jump down next. (catching a cold to moment may be a small issue)

Should have lucky, die with respect to evaporate of ground of while still alive a black cat.

Drink kerosene to be able to treat asthma. (far more than is not asthmatic, can take away even breath)

Besmear excrement on a bag, take again in the neck child on, can drive ailment. (the feeling suffers slight illness can a bit better... )

The ugliest person that lets you know looks in past butter jar, you also can make cream. (did good, who can make a cream after, be clear about in whose heart! )

Want to bring the devil to one individual body, take his picture first. (the fellow student that hair of friend circle love sends oneself, you are very dangerous! )

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Anyhow, the way all kinds of strange things with superstitious American, unimaginably queer. Formal appreciation is asked below today's " strange flower congress " !

Border area is wizard

[Beautiful] David Hakete Feisheer / civil

Headed for Aozake 1920 a mountainous area (Ozark) a traveler sees one act lets a person uncannily scene. Vernal early morning, twitter just rose, he sees amazedly, run in Xin Li's ground from the apace in cabin to farmer husband and wife, take off next clothings, "Begin mutual like bunny quest " , make love on the ground next. This is to the couple be in place is famous, and domestic background is good, often go church.

In ministry of southwest of close Su Li, aozake's ethnographer 10 thousand Si Lan husband (Vance Randolph) the report that collects a lot of likeness:

Person of an old woman says, on July 25 before sunrise, 4 girls and a boy are in the ground cultivate land. "They stripped off the dress, " she tells me, "Boy station is in the center of plot, 4 old girls are all round him bouncing. The boy has aspersed the seed entirely went out, the girl is in all the time however shout: ' get v hoe some deeper! Get v hoe some deeper! ' after they work, roll about like the beast in earth. This is complete no point, " old woman person says, "But these racial turnips are river side is best. "But these racial turnips are river side is best..

Of border area this kind wizard continued even today. It reminded the serious problem in our history. Full case rash - the child that each folk-custom culture of the United States is an environment not only, also be the child of the times. Border area person brought the wizard belief that ever did not list bump border land in north in 18 centuries early metaphase. These devotional objects include wizard, blackart and other the thing that has magic power, but the wizard preference that before this kind of wizard belief is different from a century, goes in Puritan midstream.

Wizard circulate in this culture up to now. Daniel · De Lei is overcome (Daniel Drake) remember encountering to call old Billie Johnson in American border area (Old Billy Johnson) people living on the frontiers, he is " wizard sturdy belief person, can arouse a devil, allow its be sunk in sleep again " . In the folk-custom of southern upland be full of for a long time sibylline with elfin fokelore. Acting 1930, the person that the folk-custom of southern country collects still has heard a lot of about sibylline view:

If person of an old woman has a tooth only, she is sibylline certainly.

If you feel beside have thermal current course, the specification is sibylline people pass by. If you awoke at 11 o'clock, you can see sibylline people.

If your eye is throbbing, explain you are in by enchant.

If rise in the morning,your hair has a lot of kink, explain sibylline Ceng Qi is on your body.

Of the dog wail to explain sibylline appeared.

If your bootlace rose repeatedly, it is sibylline tracking you.

If you see a slant-eye, you should hold the hand rise the eye with escape devil.

Him person of a lot of border area also plays wizard.

The broken dress you touchs the enemy's blood, after the stone that is put in chimney. When it is cankered, your enemy can die.

Want to bring the devil to one individual body, take his picture first.

Unplug from hematic snake body 7 root hair are sent, unplug from rattlesnake body again 7 scale, get off from owl body 7 feather, add the hair of a person that you long for, fragment of a few fingernail, it is with the first rainwater April in conflagration cooking 7 minutes. Shed this kind of mixed liquor put oneself in another's position on that person that you consider to attract next. You arrive with respect to successfully accost the other side.

Dexterous forefinger or little finger point to a person, then the individual can go adversity.

Emigrant initial stage, resident dot has the person of a special responsible blackart to be enchanter, his job has too many visitors or business to deal with. My memory say Samiaoer Keji: "I know such several enchanter, they call him so namely, he can be those to be treated a disease by the person of wizard harm before the public. " the job of these enchanter is mixed the doctor of 20 centuries is same, it is groovy and fixed. Enchanter people it is to should come iatrical. If they cannot before go cure, border area person is about to learn him emergency treatment.

If you want to be far from sibylline, the broom that is about to make up grass is put in way to do sth. If want to kill sibylline, draw a heart on evergreen tree, successive nine morning is inserted on her heart on spike.

But these practices are not like 17 centuries new england completely to treat sibylline in that way extremely anxious. Southern upland never has because the person is wizard be put to death, because,have a few people only other crime by hang by the neck. This and inchoate culture are a significant difference.

Border area person is right astrological also have strong interest with augur. People believes generally, star and planet are right the thing on the ground is influential:

The season that blossomming is planted on flower (should be in maiden below mark) .

When the signs of the zodiac points to Leo, do not want castrate domestic animals. Bleed the meeting is very much... when moment of overhead of signs of the zodiac (Pisces) , just be castrate when the pig is best.

When Libra appears horizon, it is chrysanthemum of end of this kinds of fish when.

When be about to rain, or in new moon when, do not gather wild fruit, because be met bad in that way,get very fast.

Of these belief arisen do not resemble Virginia with transmission farmer or Western Europe advocates the nobles of renaissance are elegant in that way, civilized. In the fastigium of development, what what it conveys is actual the recall that is period of parting to be in border area build. But it with more the means of humanness love to see and hear got transmission and continuance.

What the folk-custom of border area also likes another kind of form is wizard, may call experimental sex wizard or vulgarization is superstitious. It basically is behaved to be opposite wizard, blackart, paternoster, omen, charm, medicaments, abracadabra is mixed astrological those who wait is actual apply, in order to achieve change incident process or the goal that forecast them.

Of these blackart apply involve any cases that you can imagine, basically be the brought trouble such as animal, crop, neighbour, child, weather and ailment. It can show pair of affective control, in order to achieve the goal of alive common.

20 centuries are inchoate, folk-custom investigator blocks city of collect Lai accept to collect such nearly 10 thousand specific example in north, we choose a few from which.

Description of wh some of which has been confirmed by science:

Eat hoecake to be able to catch pellagra.

If was gotten scorbutic, section of immature soil beans, in the bubble in vinegar eat.

If was bitten by the snake, if there is cut in the mouth, suck poison spit again;

Bake on fire with the knife, incision cut makes blood natural flow.

Still having a few is deadly apparently:

To considering the treatment of countryside, put a lot of powder into the shirt to stand by the place of neck namely.

Want to treat good cold, use a hand (do not use a base) mount a Gao Shu, jump down next.

Still have be contradiction more very:

The bird flies into house to make clear lucky.

If the bird flies into house, can have adversity with respect to the specification. Kill a cat to be able to bring adversity.

Should have lucky, die with respect to evaporate of ground of while still alive a black cat.

Have a lot of abracadabra and remedial method very cruel:

Should treat ovine epilepsy mad, take the cranium of a mankind.

The person with the mad epilepsy that get a sheep feels the cord of person of hang by the neck to be able to treat a disease.

Want to treat a cold, chop chicken of a black skin animatedly, bind in sole. Such meetings take away a cold.

Batty blood can be treated bald-headed.

The brain that eats owl is the method that exclusive and reliable cure headaches. Want to treat rheumatism, bind the frog of incision on the foot.

Want to treat tumid leg, the cat animated incision, still bind when having temperature go up in the leg.

The head of the first butterfly that you see bite off, you can get a new clothes. Lever the mouth of milk cow, the toad that lives is thrown in its throat, can treat its empty wine cup.

These with lucky no matter what the paternoster that gives priority to aim brought to the mankind, but the cat of subtense area, batty, frog, owl, snake, chickling and doggie brought adversity however. I remembers Samiaoer Keji, border area makes vitreous plant the first batch, "Throw vivid dog into furnace with sibylline evict come " . He still remembers, "Here sees a complete black cat very hard, people often chops their ear and toe, in order to get their blood " .

The conduct behavior of people of division of wizard and devotional subtense, dress, food and appearance have very profound effect, the person that comes from other area feels very amazed for this:

Some old people let the fingernail of the little finger grow very longly, they say for " lucky fingernail " .

Wear the dress instead can bring all day long lucky. Say to thank you to be able to bring adversity.

Bathing meeting takes conjugal time adversity.

Besmear excrement on a bag, take again in the neck child on, can drive ailment.

The water of dog days is poisonous.

Some are consuetudinary the life setting that shows border area cabin fully to us:

Awake at the same time on the bed when 3 people when, the oldest that the first gone.

If two people are in same wash his hands in fountainhead, they will be forever friends.

Still having a few is the destiny that should control other agog:

If a woman was pregnant, drank her pass water, can let her abort. If sit in one boiler to cover tightly above ripe onion, with respect to meeting abortion.

But majority is innocent prophecy and hurtless abracadabra:

Want to treat aching eye, can kiss the person of red hair. Want take out fleck, the dew that can go up with cobweb washs a face.

If butterfly flies into the building, mean stranger to be able to call in. 3 blood that use you go feeding another person, this meeting attracts his love. Take away the one gather hair of a person, you can control him.

The ugliest person that lets you know looks in past butter jar, you also can make cream. (? ? ? )

Should be in tomato patch day plants Shengpatelike go down.

A lot of such consuetudinary come from Ireland, Scotland and England north. But of border area wizard it is alternative use, also have so come from support of the people of Indian, African, Germany the content of other culture. In this culture interior, often have novel folk-custom generation. Notable is, these border area that 20 centuries record " traditional " consuetudinary, the time that wh some of which produces is not so ages ago. Abala Qiyade the people of the area also gifted product of a lot of modern industry the property with blackart. Product of a special white-headed white-headed is kerosene:

Drink kerosene to be able to treat asthma.

Want stanch cut to bleed, can pour a bit kerosene above. Remedial burn, can use kerosene.

If crural frostbite, can get on kerosene and salt in the foot knead. Have oil of coal of candy of on one spoon, can treat heavy cold.

Drink kerosene to be able to treat hernia.

Kerosene is OK stanch by the strut after snakebite.

If let the kerosene in oil lamp burn light, can suffer misfortune. A bottle of kerosene is hanged on the tree, can prevent wither.

Umbrella also was gifted special force:

If an umbrella is opened in house, that year you marry impossibly.

If you dropped an umbrella, let others be collected, probably you can feel disappointed to certain thing.

Lift the umbrella in house tall, can bring adversity. Put the umbrella on the bed to be able to pose issue.

Railroad and car also were gifted special force:

If 16 crosstie had gone on railroad, any desires can come true.

If a cat is before your car,traverse driveway, draw a cross on windshield.

The border area that updates ceaselessly is wizard do not need any orgnaizations to guard a pass, this is different from Puritan the practice in new england. It also does not need the abstraction of any wisdom knowledge estate, the country that this respect is different from Virginia again the effort that the noble makes to get lucky place. Of border area wizard it is a few simple, simple superstition, basically be to be the people place with one uncivilized subgroup to use.

Of border area wizard go up in property and purpose very vulgarization. It is remaining certain the belief to diabolical, sibylline, star and planet. But it basically is through controlling certain goods in order to control the development of lay general affairs.

Of border area wizard have very strong materialism the tendency, experimental with experience sex. Understand in the world that its old ceremony and simple remedial way show to people is to want to pass it to be full of astatic element in and dominate oneself life.

Modern society scientist can explain the continuity with wizard border area from different respect, the person that include Er of Marx, Fuluoyide, black case, Yalishiduode, structuralism and empiric, etc. But of these folk wizard popular, the explanatory method that why because allow,goes up namely is nonexistent in this one culture. Border area those are active the uncertainty that explain the world with intelligent heart without other way.

An a mountainous area woman writes:

Say from the angle of my people, I very believe firmly, almost everybody has he himself indecipherable a few experience. Probably the warning that he has heard checkmate of pair of a certain person, strange perhaps noise, or shriek on housetop. Perhaps pass beside him in the somebody on the road, disappear suddenly again, did not keep any tracks... person of upland of my people and Indian, Scotland is same, capable to confront blame nature phenomenon, also can see and hear the thing that the person that has gotten more education cannot witness. Incorporeal world can leave some kind of impress always in the cerebra of a mountainous area person. He is not willing to accept this kind of thing, do not be willing to believe the thing that it alludes. But it is over there.

The cause that understands American culture and flow