Re: [Cz-L] Drafts, superstitions, etc

Hi Gabi & Edi,
Yes I know what it means...it comes from "Pitzkale" something small and is a
super-superlatif from the superlatif "Pitzkale" (klein, kleiner
(diminutif), pitskale, , in the other languages are only 3 grades, in
Yiddisch there are more, see "Pitzunkale", etc...
Best regards Hedwig
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Subject: [Cz-L] Drafts, superstitions, etc

> Dear Friends,
> It all sounds so familiar. And it was passed on to the next generation.
> All that Mimi wrote, I do remember well. Moreover, we used to drive our
> daughter mad, when she was small, to put her hat on in winter, lest she
> catch a draft or a cold. We still do, sometimes. Of course, she doesn't
> listen.
> My mother-in-law, Alma Wagner, also a Czernowitzer, had a few more
> superstitions, maybe not necessarily local: if you spill some salt, it
> brings quarells, arguments. If you wipe a table with paper, it brings bad
> luck. These probably go back to times where salt and paper were expensive.
> However much I tried to disbelieve, these negative things do happen, quite
> often if not always. To me at least. All in the mind?
>
> We have a dear friend in Israel, whose lovely twin girls are now in the
> army and proud of it. When they were small, my husband nicknamed them
> "Snipunkale" and
> "Pitziunkale", it was somehow a spntaneous reaction, they were so sweet. I
> wonder if that is connected with Czernowitzer Yiddish and German. Does
> anybody
> recall any similar endearments?
> Gabriele
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