Millard County Chronicle | 1911-03-16 | Page 8 | Superstitions of Sneezing

SUPERSTITIONS OF SNEEZING It Wat a Thing of Ill-Omen Until tha Tim ef Jacob, Say the Jewish Rabbis. Many surerstltlons hay gathered around the practUe of sticeilng The Jewish rabbis say that In the first ages of the world sneezing was considered a thing of 111 omen, and even a presago of death, and that this terrible state of things lasted until the coming of Jacob, when that attute patriarch, anxious lest he should himself him-self perish from such an Insignificant cause, besought the Almighty to endow en-dow sneeilng In future with more beneficent attributes. Among the ancients sneezing was considered lucky or unlucky according accord-ing to the circumstance of time and place. For Instance, It was considered lucky to sneeze between noon and midnight; also when the moon was In the signs of Taurus. Leo, Libra. Capricorn Cap-ricorn and Pisces. Hut If, on the other hand, you sneezed during any of the hours between be-tween midnight and the following noon, or while the moon happened to be In the signs of Virgo, Aquarius. Cancer or Srorpl above all, unhappily, unhap-pily, you were Just getting out of bed or rising from the table then you were to consider yourself In a parlous par-lous state. InJeed. The Greeks and Romans entertained the superstition that to hear anyone on their right hand aneese wa of good presage to all concerned, and the Greeks used to say or a beautiful woman that Cupid and his loves had - enacted at her birth.