Show I 1 the why of superstitions JL X by H irving king A THE bights LIGHTS BURN BLUE 49 enow THE lights born bum blueit blue blae it 1 la 1 I BOW dead midnight ray king richarl start starting ln awake from his dream pecked with the ghosts or of his murdered this super of the last with regard to the connection between a blue burnIng 1 lind the pres ence ot 0 inimical it a very old and wid universal one which his liis not et ent liels vanished from our modern mb fol lore tore ore are many people 11 who when the be lights bum blue fancy that it I 1 t an andl cation that are abbit on the new Fri fosland gland coast when a fire ore burns with a blue flume they cay say that a sonn Is coming it li is an omen ct of evil the powers of the he prince of the air abroad I 1 in the south when the ore bums blue the colored folks and some of the white ones too say that it Is a sigu that ulm the devil wants to becak to you on and handfuls of salt are thrown on oa the fire to keep him ap a ay the an dent clent greeks when their funeral pyres burned bo rued blue blile used to throw oil upon them to induce a clearer flame sir thomas browne 1 sas that candles and lights burn bum blae blue and find dim at the apparition of spirits ina nay r be true if the ambient amble D t air Is filled with sulphurous as happens often in the mines tills this bluelight blue light superstition Is clearly a survival of sun worship the flame represented the eun sun and like the fun sun should bun bum with A it clear light when it some thins thim Is wrong the perfect syi ayin a ratify rathy between the god and h hi ls earthly symbol fire created by mau mall in his honor to induce his beneal cent protection Is destroyed evil spirits intervene In between the god nod his votaries vot aries mcclur |