Re: [Cz-L] superstitions

I also remember that another way to overcome mysterious
happenings was pouring bees wax. In the resulting shapes the lady who did this
would give an explanation I vaguely remember her as Mrs Rofe from the Steingasse
she was also a "Hebamme"' a midwife. Oh! for superstition.

Fred.Weisinger

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From: Merle Kastner <merlek_at_videotron.ca>
To: czernowitz-l_at_list.cornell.edu
Sent: Mon, 23 May, 2011 1:13:35 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] superstitions

I can't resist - have to jump into this discussion now.  I believe that a lot of
these superstitions are common to all eastern European Jews.

My grandmother Esther Miller Kastner, born in Philadelphia (of a Litvak father
and a Bessarabian mother) in 1894, (married to my Kastner grandfather from
Radautz) was very superstitious, always talking about 'kein ayin hora". And even
today, I sometimes find myself saying “I don’t want to give it a nehora”.

She never gave her wonderfully accomplished daughter Anita a compliment, with
the excuse that ‘it would bring her back luck’.

And when we were sick, she told us to wrap a red flannel scarf around our
throats – it had to be red and flannel.

Merle

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