| Show WHY of superstitions by H KINQ BUZZING FLIES THERE Is a very general supers tl alon ln fact it la worldwide that a lare fly buzzing persistently about one or preceding one as lie walks 13 a sign of bad luck it Is said that the late russell sage would not do business with a man who came into Us office with a fly buzzing in front of him this appears to be a survival of an old idea of primitive man that files were embodiments of the souls of the dead and of wicked souls at that even today among the natives of As sam a fly which Is peculiarly demon Is supposed to be the soul of some dead malefactor who hiving spent his allotted time in the underworld has been reincarnated in that form preparatory to final extinction at kuhlbach bach in transylvania in the eighteenth century it was testified at the trial of a witch that some work men saw the woman s soul which had temporarily left her reenter re enter her mouth in the form of a fly in classic times the fly was regard ed at an especially malignant and bad luck bringing creature and one of the titles of the grecian ju was the fly catcher one of his joaq was fp exert his power as chief of the gods against the fly once when zeus was sleeping or too sur felted with nectar and ambrosia to libed the prayers of his votaries vot aries apol leonlus of tyana a great magician cleared constantinople of flies by work ing a counter magic on them lie set up a great bronze fly and alie other flies alarmed by this prodigy left the city by mcclur newspaper syndicate |
