I'm not sure how it goes. My mom and I were talking about it when I mentioned that I smelled something that was burning.
2006-09-02 09:09:36 · 11 answers · asked by Cutie Pie 2 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
It could be the smell of Brimstone and the presence of the Devil?
2006-09-02 09:19:54 · answer #1 · answered by Star of Florida 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don`t think there is a superstition. In a certain brain operation which is done with a local anesthetic when a certain part of the brain is touched the patient can smell burning toast. Perhaps this is where this has come from
2006-09-02 16:18:54 · answer #2 · answered by lazyreneemom 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ditto the "brain tumor" answer.
In "The Exorcist", the child being possessed smelled strange things, and she was checked out for brain lesions.
In Stephen King's book "Roadwork" he described a boy with a brain tumor smelling pencil shavings.
2006-09-02 16:17:40 · answer #3 · answered by papyrusbtl 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think there's something from a movie or tv show that goes, if you smell burning feathers, you have a brain tumor....
2006-09-02 16:14:25 · answer #4 · answered by laura_ghill 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of it. But I used to believe that you must hold your breath when passing a cemetary so you don't inhale the spirits of dead people and so become possessed.
2006-09-02 16:11:30 · answer #5 · answered by Strange question... 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm looking to see when somebody knows that for you. All I can think of is, "you smell it, you own it" (farts), LOL!
2006-09-02 16:11:33 · answer #6 · answered by Zeera 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
umm.... time to call 9-1-1
2006-09-02 16:20:42 · answer #7 · answered by strummersworld 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The devil is in your shorts?
2006-09-02 16:21:09 · answer #8 · answered by Grist 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Were there is smoke there is fire?
2006-09-02 16:11:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no... usually where there's smoke, there's fire
2006-09-02 16:11:38 · answer #10 · answered by jeanne g 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋