RE: [Cz-L] more on "angsts"

Jessica...you might just have a point there! My mother had a superstition
that if you lose something ,then if you put a glass upside down under a
table you would find it. I am not convinced...but we knew exactly where to
find missing glasses.My mother always said that many of her friends shared
this belief,and to my amazement the daughter of one of her friends,in
Israel,about 3 yrs ago,had inherited this theory from her mother. Cornel

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Sent: 09 June 2010 19:28
To: Jessica Attiyeh; czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] more on "angsts"

I can easily think of some cultural angsts, I remember from my Czernowitz
childhood, but they may not be particular to Czernowitz.

1. Do not walk around in socks, it may cause someone to die.
2. Do not eat fresh warm bread , you'll get a stomach ache.
3. If the palm of your right hand itches, you will be counting money.
    If the palm of your left hand itches, you will "chapen Petsch"
    (get a beating).
4. Do not praise anyone without saying "Keneynahoreh", if you do, something
    bad will happen to them.

Mimi

On 6/9/10 1:30 PM, "Attiyeh" <rea_at_ucsd.edu> wrote:

> Jerome's follow-up on Hardy's "Zug" enlightenment makes me wonder
> what other cultural angsts (or quirks, or superstitions)
> Czernowitzers share, even a generation later?
>
> Jessica Falikman Attiyeh, San Diego, CA
>

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