Re: [Cz-L] Fear of drafts

Jerome, this is lovely. One could live a whole lifetime and never
know what made our fathers tick, and then, ta-dah, a ray of light
penetrates the fog. I wonder what other familial and/or cultural
angsts we share? I've just saved your chain-of-comments to My
Documents and will print it out when we get back to San Diego on July
1. We returned from the UK about 2 weeks ago, and are now up in
Walnut Creek for the month, but I can't resist keeping up with the
Cz-L discussions! --- Luv, Jessie

At 09:31 AM 6/9/2010, you wrote:
>Ah... fear of Zugs (Zugangst??)-- My father, born in Czernowitz,
>suffered from the same thing: closing windows as he went from room to
>room and my mother not far behind him, re-opening them. But then of
>course, Jessica and I are cousins. Must be a genetic defect.
>
>Best,
>jerome
>
>
>On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 22:42 -0700, Attiyeh wrote:
> > Hardy, you have just solved a long-standing mystery for me! My
> > Czernowitzer father was forever closing windows in our New York City
> > apartment. My Philadelphia-raised mother would open them to get some
> > fresh air into the house; my father would come home from work and
> > immediately close them, concerned that there might be a draft. I
> > could never understand the basis for this concern until you wrote
> > about "Schiefer Mund" and the prevailing fear of a "Zug". Thanks!
> > You never know how a good current of information can open a
> window of the mind!
> >
> > Jessica Falikman Attiyeh, San Diego, California
> >
> >
> >
> > >Facialis is a weakness of the facial nerve wich makes one face
> corner drop.
> > > In Czernowitz it was called Schiefer Mund and provoked by air currents.
> > > Therefore you should never let a window or a door open to prevent
> > > bad air currents.
> > > Whenever a current was percepted somebody exclaimed :"Es zieht "
> > > that is a draft was prevailing and immediate measures were taken.
> > > Some attributed this situation to the evil eye but these
> were the old and
> > > superstitious.
> > > The more emancipated knew the real cause :
> > > " Er hot gechapt a Zug" (he caught a draft).
> > >Hardy
> >
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Received on 2010-06-09 11:23:53