Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #153: 88888.
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OTD, only 100 years ago, March 13, 1925.
Tennessee, USA, legislature enacted what was called Butler Act:
“Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, That it shall be unlawful for any teacher in any of the Universities, Normals and all other public schools of the State which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the State, to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.”
Less than three months later, high-school teacher John T. Scopes was charged with violating state law by teaching Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution.
The law was repealed only in 1967.
Is anything changed there?
https://depts.washington.edu/genomicssalon/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/butler-act.pdf
There's that slipping back into superstition thing happening in real time... #superstition
Paging Dr Superstitious: Why Singaporean medics believe steamed buns are bad luck
Doctors in Asia believing it's bad luck to eat steamed buns during a shift shows that even the medically minded are susceptible to superstition
#superstition : extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance
- French: superstition, croyance
- German: der Aberglaube
- Italian: superstizione
- Portuguese: superstição
- Spanish: superstición
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Does anyone else here know the superstition that if you say "rabbits rabbits rabbits" on the first day of the month you'll get a gift before the month is over?
Learned it from my Grandmother, who was born in Scotland.
No, sorry, you don't get to choose the gift you want.
"Superstition" is a song by American singer-songwriter #StevieWonder. It was released on October 24, 1972, as the #leadSingle from his fifteenth studio album, #TalkingBook (1972), by #Tamla. The lyrics describe popular #superstitions and their negative effects. #Superstition reached number one in the U.S. #Billboard #Hot100 in January 1973 and on the soul singles chart. It was Wonder's first number-one single since "#FingertipsPt2" in 1963.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftdZ363R9kQ
Guarda il testo della canzone “Superstition” di Stevie Wonder
#StevieWonder #Superstition
https://daletra.online/stevie-wonder/testi/superstition.html
Check out the lyrics for the song “Superstition” by Stevie Wonder
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https://daletra.com/stevie-wonder/lyrics/superstition.html
Now resting in a tiny box in one of the drawers, this magic fish predates Queen Victoria. Over 200 years old, it has been carefully kept and repaired - which may have skewed the accuracy of its fortune telling...
Pitt Rivers Museum @Pitt_Rivers #Magic #superstition #foretunetelling #christmas
How To Shove Even More #Christ Into #Christmas | Belief It Or Not
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXAgXw1KkFM
We look to Mommy Vloggers and Family Vloggers to find some new #Christcentred #Christmastraditions
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One rather odd custom at Shōgatsu-goto Hajime fell to men with the same zodiac animal sign as that current year's.
They were responsible for collecting pine branches for New Year decorations (松迎え) from mountains positioned in that year's determined lucky direction.
Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #88: No witches have ever been sucked into jet engines, so the law works, I guess?
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Several interesting superstitions are related to clocks. Clocks are said to stop of their own accord on the deaths of important people. The clock of the House of Lords reputedly stopped 'nearly' at the hour of George III's death in 1820 while the clock at Balmoral stopped during the hour of Queen Victoria's death. A similar legend is associated with Elizabeth I. A clock stopping may also indicate that someone's death is near. If a clock strikes during a church hymn or marriage ceremony, it is believed death or disaster will afflict the congregants or couple. Death or unlucky events are foreshadowed by a clock striking at the wrong time. It is considered unlucky to have a clock facing the fire or to talk while a clock is striking. #folklore #weird #superstition #clocks #gothic #paranormal #history
Seems like a good day to say:
IT'S BAD LUCK TO BE SUPERSTITIOUS.
Un premier ministre nommé un vendredi 13? "Ça commence mal, grince un conseiller ministériel, rappelant l'exemple des Romains, qui s'en référait aux augures pour les "jours fastes et néfastes". "En fonction du calendrier et des augures, un consul pouvait suspendre ses affaires et rester chez lui". La politique est aussi une affaire de superstition.
"I prefer to believe the answers will be human, rational and scientific, too. But when that feels hopeless, why on earth wouldn’t you fall back on magic and manifesting, on superstition and delulu, on howling at the moon?"
