Re: [Cz-L] ' turn over a glass... '

From: Nancy Lapid <nancylapid_at_mac.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:41:51 -0400
To: CZERNOWITZ-L <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Reply-to: Nancy Lapid <nancylapid_at_mac.com>

My cousins and I (and even my once-skeptical husband) will gladly
vouch for the effectiveness of the "turn over the glass" method!

Nancy




On Jun 28, 2008, at 12:03 PM, jerome schatten wrote:

> Lucca, Cornel, et al:
>
> I too attest to the efficacy of turning over a glass to find
> misplaced objects. It works, and in fact, I've never had an instance
> where it didn't work. My Czernowitzer father did it, his father did
> it, usw.
>
> As a boy, I asked my father how the 'glass trick' worked. He said:
> "...focus; the glass focuses the mind on the object and makes it so
> uncomfortable that it presents itself again".
>
> Last year I became interested in whether this process worked for
> only Jews, and so I instructed several gentiles in the arcane art of
> finding lost stuff by turning over a glass. It worked for them too!
>
> Best,
> jerome
>

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