Quote:
Originally Posted by Boreas
It's said that the thing about 13 comes from the Last Supper (12 Disciples plus Jesus).
The Celts had a deity that took the form of a black cat. The aversion to them may stem from Rome's suppression of the Celtic religion and culture in Western Europe and Britain.
Green? I don't really know. Might be Celtic again, with"the little people". That might be why some consider it good luck and others bad luck.
I think all superstitions come from folklore (duh) and, since folklore is so rich and diverse, there's no one source for superstitious beliefs and some superstitions go back so far, way back into pre-literate cultures, that finding the root is impossible in some cases.
John
|
Illiteracy was a big part of it. Roman Catholic churches that were built in the 1500s had facades full of sculptures. They were put there to communicate with the illiterate. At least that's what my tour guide told me in Regensburg.
When people are left to their own devices they can come up with all kinds of models to represent the "truth". A friend and I were talking about relationships once and she came up with a spring model to describe ebbs and flows of struggles in life. If she lived a few thousand years ago and a rock carver wanted to get into her pants bad enough, she might have been the author of the Ten Commandments of the Church of Springs.
