we studied things like this in my senior lit class.
there are a number of reasons people began to use this saying:
1. they believed that during a sneeze, your spirit temporarily left your body. "God bless you" was a bidding of farewell in hopes that your spirit would return just as quickly as it left.
2. your heart temporarily stops beating (it does-for a millisecond) while you sneeze so "God blessed you" by restarting it
3. during the black plague people felt a sneeze marked you as being the next to go-in this case, "God bless you" was literally said as a blessing
I've also read that people believed when you sneezed it was because your body was getting rid of a bad spirit/demon therefore you were blessed by having it gone.
i heard that when you sneezed you were getting rid of little microbes caught with in your lungs and nasal passages and "god bless you" was just a stupid saying.
well obviously you don't know anything.
obviously you are a typical half puerto rican half italian american.
The phrase "oops-a-daisy," came from the days of the black plague, as well, I believe. I think it originated because too many people were dying, and dying too quickly, that they didn't have time to bury them... so they would just simply plant a daisy next to the body, each time someone died. So, when you were walking around, you would obviously have to be careful you didn't step on a body. But, it would be hard to avoid it. Easier said than done. If you caught yourself just before you were about to step on a body, you would say "oops-a-daisy."
kewl...is that really true?
From what I've heard. Haven't researched it myself, tho.
That's so sick in a really interesting way
Or, so interesting in a really sick way.
