medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
In Croatia sometimes when a person sneezes, the others say somrthing like
"It is the truth, see?", as if sneezing was a kind of argument in favor of
something said. I don't know where it comes from.
Marija-Ana
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Marjorie Greene wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
>
> Interesting how sneezing went from some sort of bodily
> affliction (or ersatz exorcism) to a sign of contempt.
> Didn't people in later centuries carry a substance
> (snuff? pepper?) to provoke a sneeze to indicate
> disrespect, thereby producing our "That's nothing to
> sneeze at"?
>
> MG
>
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