Show WHY of superstitions by H KINQ SCARING SCREECH OWLS everybody knows of course that to hear a screech owl sound ing his melancholy note in the dark ness of the night Is a bad omen it bortells for tells misfortune at least some people say death in the family it Is an idea of primitive man exists today among all peoples who know the owl or its conveners congeners cong eners and lingers in the superstitions of civil iced races but ag anne la said to have its antidote the evil effects of the owls hooting may be warded off if you only use the right magic the directions for counteracting the evil omen of the hooting owl differ in different parts of the country but they all appear to have as a basis the idea of reversal which the ancients freely incorporated in their magic tor mulas one way Is to take off your shoe and turn it upside down then the owl will see away and no harm ill ensue in one section they eay that taking off some article of cloth ing like your coat for instance and putting it on again wrong side out will have the same effect and in an other you are advised to turn your pockets wrong side out the idea Is this the hooting of the would in the natural of things produce misfortune it Is to wear your coat side out and your shoe of course must be worn with the sole down now revere this natural order turn the hoe sole up the coat wrong side out and arrange the pockets in the reverse position from the natural one this sets up a counter current as it were the natural course of things Is reversed and by sympathy there Is reversed also the ordinary effects of the owl s hooting this idea of reversals in primitive angle Is manifested in various super of long descent it was athla idea which caused witches to work baleful spells by repeating the lords brayer backwards eiby newspaper syndicate |