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poolboyservice · 3 months

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I find it insane how left handed people were legitimately discriminated (horribly discriminated in fact) all over the world at one point, and actually still are in some local areas, primarily because of biases formed from religious beliefs

Like what the fuck do you mean if this were 1918, you'd literally tie my hand to the chair, whip me with a ruler, and call me a disgusting sin among other things, all the while I'm being forced to write my name "the holy way"

#superstitions were fucking wild #like autistic people were considered changelings so people fucking beat the shit out of them #people with DID were (and likewise w lefties: still are in some places) considered to be possessed by demons and were horrifically treated #ygs don't realize how fucked up we were back then until you look up the history behind folktales and legends #or even just look back on history in general #idk what to tag this it's just. woah #left handedness #left hand #superstitions #old superstitions #franky posts

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 7 months

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Vincent Price (under a ladder), Peter Lorre (black cat crossing his path), Boris Karloff (breaking a mirror), and Basil Rathbone (spilling the salt).

Behind the scenes of The Comedy of Terrors (1964)

#vincent price #the comedy of terrors #peter lorre #boris karloff #basil rathbone #horror icons #horror #vinny p has my heart #the boys are back in town #i love him so much...plus hes insanely sexy (vp)#superstition #ladder #old horror movies #vintage #movie #actor #handsome #photo #photo edit by me

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larsnicklas · 4 days

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game three puck ➡️ okie

#kyle okposo #carter verhaeghe #florida panthers #nhl #nhledit #hockey #hockeyedit #meg.cats #meg.gif #meg.all #might be my favorite ogwac in this year's playoffs........#obviously g is my favorite ogwac but uh. s.ens #(jonathan tanner is NOT old btw. he won't have ogwac status for several more years at least)#anyway i have to keep making these. for superstition reasons.#i also want to gif sasha buuuut girl i really need to pack and also finish doing the dishes LOL #scp24

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sygiandepths · 1 month

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The urge to make a bestiary of my object species and subspecies grgghrhgrhggg

#updated my app since its been the 2023 August version #its easier to use that version thats why i keep on replying with my alt #mawkish pie #<- needs a name but I've settled on mawkish cuz my old url used to be mawkishly #but i want to catalog my species. memory issues so bad I'm starting to forget some...very irritating haha!#2022 aug version rgh typo #things work alot different in nargelia though. esp superstition and spritual concepts

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vintage-tigre · 11 months

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Stevie Wonder, 1973

#stevie wonder #70s style #70s music #70s vintage #aesthetic #vintage #old school cool #70s fashion #70s aesthetic #superstition #inner visions #music

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black-rose-writings · 1 month

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It's that time of the year again - time to argue with my mom about why I'm uncomfortable participating in the "symbolic violence against women "for their own good"" holiday.

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headofocs-inklesspen · 8 months

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I love old superstitions because now every time I make a mistake in my yarn work that isn’t noticeable or detrimental enough to warrant taking the time to undo and redo a whole section I actually didn’t make a mistake, that stitch is wonky on purpose so my soul doesn’t get trapped in the yarn, the Irish grannies told me so

#crow rambles #crochet #I don’t know how accurate it actually is #but supposedly an old Irish superstition said to always leave a small mistake somewhere in any crochet and/or lace project #because your soul can get left in things you make and the little error leaves a gap that the soul can escape from to return to you

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bughead-in-the-comics · 7 months

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From Silly Superstitions, Laugh Comics #257 (1972).

#bughead #jughead jones #betty cooper #archie andrews #reggie mantle #dilton doiley #moose mason #geraldine grundy #old comics #digest comics #laugh comics #bughead high school #bughead school #bughead class #bughead accident #bughead worried #silly superstitions #friday the 13th

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cannivalisms · 9 months

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random question but does the world of terras town have any sort of religion

swear i've been sitting on answering this one for literal months now i'm. so sorry! wanted to be in a more tt mood again before replying (i'm still not fully but nostalgia is hitting hard on this friday night. btw).

also yeah! so since tt exists as a refraction (and opposition) of the town right above it, its no surprise that its religion also has similar (and skewed) foundations. considering lev's hometown is largely christian (& catholic), aka structured around a man dying for them, surprise! tt's is all about a woman being killed by them. which actually fits into their general day to day beliefs and attitudes more than you'd think.

so, just as lev's world has Our Lord, tt has Our Lady. and god in their case came from the earths, her divine body both one with the sand and also somehow sleeping deep within it. and in popular mythos, this is how the people of terras also first came to be: chewing and tearing their way free from her flesh, and thus becoming imbued along the way with a small spark of her divinity (aka, their magic). but subsequently, for each new person 'born', god grew weaker, until eventually self preservation rose and she woke up, with the aim to swallow them all back down again and re-become whole. this is the point where the people of terras proceeded to band together and kill her to maintain their lives. bonding activities fr

anyway it's no real surprise that as a result religious virtue in tt is based less around humility and fearing your god, and more about personal pride and surpassing them. terran religion is meant to uplift the self, promote determination and senses of justice, and encourage unity in the face of greater evils, since they are literally all each other have in the middle of this cut off dreambubble wasteland. these beliefs also tie though as to why the council & upper classes in terras generally suppress or hand wave away most religious affairs - last thing they need here is the lower classes to start being like oh shit right, we are so powerful actually, we can take on those corrupt bastards in charge if we all stick together haha!!!. it's not like they'll discriminate or outright prohibit religious displays or holidays, since that tends to only breed fiercer devotion and encourage the unwanted behavior, but for each religious holiday, some other follow up festivity or something will be made to sort of remind people of their power in particular. yk. power that you can actually see and touch and fear. not the general sense of power that allowed us all to hypothetically kill a god once upon a time. so. it's also why they encourage the vitriol and suspicion people in the lower classes have for each other.

unfortunately these attempts have also sort of largely worked, since there is not a lot to be proud of when you're fighting from day to day to survive to the next - or a lot to trust when your neighbor seems keen to stab you in the back. religious people exist in terras, but they're not that frequent (esp amongst The Masses), and are also usually dismissed more as optimists.

anyway past this, there's also some other branches off this primary faith - main sub groups include people who maintain that the Lady willingly let herself be killed instead of being gloriously defeated, and that there is no honor to be found in that kind of victory and that terras town citizens should be repenting for the original sin (sounds more familiar right?) vs people who maintain that the Lady wasn't ever really killed, only pushed back into slumber, and that one day she'll rise again to swallow them all - and that the people of tt must be ready to band together when that happens and truly defeat her for good etc etc. most people in tt find the former group whiny, if not downright heretical if they too are religious (who are you to try and shame us for our proudest and core tenet?), and the second cringe as fuck, plus slightly hererical if we are being picky (the whole point is that she's fucking dead dude).

oh and also there's the breakers. right. forgot about them. they are not connected to religion so much as they are like... the science of terras town, but they're a cult so i guess they sort of count in this section too. basically their full title is the barrier breakers, they think terras and the upper world need to be unified in a great rapture, and that the first sign of this happening will be the two planes 'swapping blood.' & they are going to love lev ❤️

#terras town #urban fantasy #writeblr #original writing #worldbuilding #talking with the wind #theres also some fun superstition around. ie sandwalkers which are like a combination of changelings and zombies #who are formed from the corpses of those who lie under the desert’s sands #people say you can identify them by the unburnt soles of their feet and pale skin #they take on faces of loved ones to lure you in and then bite you to draw the life out of you you know how these things go #oh also sandgrabbers! vaguely same premise as far as creation goes but these corpses were too skeletal to start walking about so #they stay underground and pull you under if you walk over them #this isnt religion either but hey! kinda fun. kinda fun!#anyway sorry for late reply & also forgive the slightly messy everything about this. im lacking in iron and trying to remember what my 18 y #old self was on about with a lot of this #she writes

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riddle-me-grits · 2 years

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Just as places are often mysterious, lost, dark or secret in Gothic fiction, so too are its characteristic times. Gothics often take place at moments of transition (between the medieval period and the Renaissance, for example) or bring together radically different times. There is a strong opposition (but also a mysterious affinity) in the Gothic between the very modern and the ancient or archaic, as everything that characters and readers think that they’ve safely left behind comes back with a vengeance.

John Bowen, “Gothic Motifs”

#dracula daily #a quote I use often when teaching gothic fiction #the 1890s are a moment of intense transition #the characters in dracula don't only not know they're in dracula #everything they are seeing is in direct opposition with their entire world outlook #their self-assurance in their own reason and rationality as modern people of the modern 1890s is unalienable #it would never even occur to them to see this happening and assume it was supernatural #even suggesting such a thing would be enough to see yourself thrown in an asylum #(this total disavowal of Old World superstition also dovetails with their unalienable belief in their superiority as Englishmen #and as Protestants)#belief in vampires and demons is Old World #it's Catholic #it's Continental #it is everything that their entire society constructs itself as NOT being #and it's going to get some of them killed #Bram Stoker was a square but he knew what he was doing

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 2 months

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The boys goofing off behind the scenes of The Comedy of Terrors (1963)

Vincent Price under a ladder, catching salt, spilled by Basil Rathbone as a black cat crosses Peter Lorre's path, and Boris Karloff is breaking a mirror.

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religion-is-a-mental-illness · 2 years

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"Science has already easily proven the Old Testament to be a collection of Bronze Age myth, superstition, and a much less than accurate historical account.

And to this day, no one has been able to verify any shred of evidence that the New Testament is any more than make believe.”

#bible #bible study #christianity #new testament #old testament #bible fables #science #science vs religion #religion vs science #religion #bronze age myths #superstition #superstitious nonsense #historically inaccurate #historical inaccuracy #no evidence #religion is a mental illness

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handeaux · 1 year

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Beware of Bumble Bees: A Collection of Old Wives’ Tales From Cincinnati In 1859

There are many mysteries surrounding the traditional lore known as Old Wives’ Tales, not the least of which is determining what or who counts as old. Are these tales told by old wives? Or are they old tales told by wives of any vintage?

In any event, the Cincinnati Penny Press went through a great deal of trouble to collect a compendium of Old Wives’ Tales common in Cincinnati for its issues of October 11 and October 12 in 1859. These are, therefore, truly old tales, no matter who tells them. It is interesting that a few of these superstitions are still popular, if not actually believed, today. According to the Penny Press:

A child born on Christmas Day or during chime hours will be able to see spirits. (What constituted “chime hours” depended on where you lived. In the city of Cincinnati, the only chime hour was midnight. In some rural areas, chime hours followed the monastic overnight hours of vespers (sunset), midnight and matins (before dawn).

A May baby will always be sickly. You may try, but you will never rear it.

If you rock the cradle when the child is not in it, the child will die.

Children with much down upon their arms or hands are born to be rich.

If several children are baptized together, and the girls are taken to the font before the boys, the boys will have no beards when they are men.

If you wish well to your friend’s child, you must give it, when it first comes to your house, a cake, a little salt, and an egg.

When a child has the thrush (a fungus infection), catch a duck and hold the bill wide open in the child’s mouth. The cold breath of the duck will cause the disease to slowly and surely depart.

Whooping cough will never be taken by a child that has ridden upon a bear. When bear-baiting was in fashion, this belief yielded part of the income of the bear’s owner.

If you eat an egg, you must finish by making a hole in the shell, or the witches will sail out in it to wreck ships. And, considering the price of eggs, do not burn egg shells because, if you do, the hens will cease to lay.

If you meet a white horse, you must spit at it.

If your keys or your penknife or any steel thing that you have will rust despite your care, you may be certain that someone is laying money aside for you.

Seven years’ trouble is the sentence pronounced upon you if you break a looking glass.

Itching is prophetic: If your left palm itches, money goes out. If your right palm itches, money comes in. If your knee itches, you shall kneel in a strange church. If the sole of your foot itches, you shall walk over strange ground. If your elbow itches, you will sleep with a strange bedfellow. If your ear itches, you are to hear sudden news.

According to the Penny Press, your whole body is a sort of antenna: If you shiver or feel cold in the back, someone is walking over your future grave. If your cheeks burn, someone is spreading scandal about you. If you hear singing in your right ear, someone is praising you. If you hear singing in your left ear, someone is abusing your reputation. (You may put a stop to this by biting sharply into your little finger. By doing so, you bite his evil tongue.)

At church, take good heed of the preacher’s texts, because you will be called upon, on Judgement Day, to recite every text you heard in church while you were alive.

It is bad luck to kill a cricket because crickets bring good luck into a house, but they will eat holes in the stockings of anyone who had killed a cricket. Similarly, if you kill a beetle, it is sure to rain.

If you sneeze on Monday, your anger will hasten, but if you sneeze on Sunday morning while you are fasting, you will enjoy your own true love everlasting.

To dream about who this true love shall be, you should, before going to bed, stick nine pins into the blade bone (scapula) of a rabbit and place it under your pillow.

Courtship was apparently very different in 1859. The Penny Press claimed that the luckiest gift a man could present to his sweetheart was the first egg laid by a pullet. It was considered bad luck for a man to go courting on a Friday. Anyone witnessing such malfeasance was required to chase the man home with poker, tongs and tin metal music.

A maiden who desires to know which of her suitors really cares for her should name each as she throws an apple pip into the fire. If the pip pops, the love is hearty.

A girl shelling peas who finds a peascod with nine peas in it must lay that peascod on the threshold of the kitchen door. The first bachelor who crosses that doorway will love her.

Be sure, when you get married, not to enter the church by one door and leave by another.

Whoever falls asleep first on the wedding night will be the first to die.

Harbingers of death were multitudinous: A bumble bee entering a house was a sign of death, as was the crowing of a hen, as was a mouse squeaking behind the bed of a sick person, as was a cow breaking into the family garden, as was a wild pigeon suddenly becoming tame.

If the door of a hearse is closed before all of the mourners are in their coaches, there will be another death in the family.

On the other hand, it was said that no one can die on a bed stuffed with game bird feathers. The story goes that an old man suffered painfully for months until a neighbor announced he must be lying on game feathers. They pulled the old fellow onto the floor and he died immediately. Or, at least, that’s how the tale goes.

If those sorts of omens bother you, the Cincinnati Penny Press offered a spell you could recite to ward away all sorts of evil:

“From witches and wizards and long-tailed buzzards and creeping things that run in hedge-bottoms, Good Lord deliver us!”

#old wives tales #cincinnati superstitions #cincinnati lore #cincinnati folklore

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catsconflictscopicsandchamomile · 3 months

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Old English flash cards ready to work on, paintbrushes out to finish customizing my latest rosewood knife, time to catch up on Hazbin before the finale.

.....what....

what AM I....

#I am some kind of Creature(tm) to be very sure #hazbin hotel #old english #anglo-saxon #art #whittling #superstition #folk magic #custom knives

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daylightisminetoconsume · 10 months

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Today I learned people have actually been drowned and burned to death under suspicion of being changelings.

#I didn't think it was a serious superstition I thought it was just an old wives tale but no people genuinely believed and acted on this #out of conquest

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keyofjetwolf · 2 years

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Me: Huh, so we’re seeing Artemis first and--

Theme Song: If you’d shut the fuck up for three seconds you’d hear us very explicitly sing “Her talking cat, LUNA”

Me: I do not understand all of your choices, but I do understand that second cap is of an actual cat and not a demonic plush simulacrum, so I will simply say “Thank you.”

#jet wolf watches saban moon #all joking aside #was it superstition that made them change luna from a black cat to white?#i don't know if black cats are considered unlucky in japan #or if it's tired old ideas of 'purity' in white versus black #or even just trying to steer clear of potential uproar from christian groups latching onto witchcraft imagery or whatever fuckery #possibly a combination #NOT A PLUSHIE THOUGH SO I WILL ACCEPT THIS STEP IN A BOLD NEW DIRECTION

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