i wonder if 'god bless you' is in there. this lady at the pizzaria got really upset that i didn't say it after she sneezed.

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 bod...

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.