When out hiking I cure some aches and pains of others just by laying my hands on the spot of pain. No message, just placing on the hands.
After, I have enough answers I will place the way I do this in a "detail."
2007-06-03 09:24:37 · 9 answers · asked by Terry 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Like the caudron with boiling water and some herbs in it along a cloth soaked in the cauldron to clean a wound, this is another practical with a history of "witchcraft" labelling by a Christian church.
Heat relaxes muscles. You just don't carry heating pads on hikes. However, we all have two built in. For 10 seconds I hold my flattened hands together tightly rubbing them together with as speed as I can. In a test, my hands reached 120 degrees ferenheit. I hold my hands on the area that is hurting for 10 seconds. I usually have to repeat this process for about five minutes.
A great great uncle was tied to a post and beaten with a buggy whip for doing the very same thing.
2007-06-03 10:49:51 · update #1
Ah Terry....In the past,,,, You would of been tried and convicted and subjected to horrors which would be unimaginable to the person of today! Because of course you would of been classed a witch or a wizard or such and treated worse than a dog!
My Poor Heart Bleeds For the unfortunate souls who were subject to the torture of those who came before us!
Today....You would be treated better by some and ridiculed for being a nutter by others.....We still have so far to go!
I will email you soon as i have a question regarding the laying on of hands!
Blessings On your household!
Ariel
2007-06-03 12:18:05 · answer #1 · answered by *~Ariel Brigalow Moondust~* 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You probably would have been branded a witch, your property taken and given to the church, your spouce and children tortured until they "repented" and then all of you would have been burned at the stake. Now days I'd like to believe you would be thought of as a healer or a shaman. BUt probably depending on who you healed, you'd be not believed and branded a nutcase. The healed ones would have been told that they just weren't hurt as bad as they thought by any doctors who examined them.
2007-06-03 16:40:04 · answer #2 · answered by Praire Crone 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it depends on the country. If you were male, you might be considered holy or brought up on charges of heresy. It varies with how you fit into the spectrum of beliefs in that culture. You'd probably be treated better in the East, as opposed to the Western world at that time.
2007-06-03 16:33:28 · answer #3 · answered by Dalarus 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
500 years ago if you were able to take pain away and heal disease you have have been clergy or a healer and had a place of reverance in your society / clan / family.
Unforunately in western society today you would be called an agent of satan or something equally silly.
Tragic commentary on our 'civilized' society if you ask me.
2007-06-03 16:34:25 · answer #4 · answered by Zimmia 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering you are male, you probably would have been made a saint or something. If you were a woman, you would have been burned at the stake for witchcraft.
2007-06-03 20:35:17 · answer #5 · answered by Mr. Thorax 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
500 years ago you would have been burned at the stake for demonic interactions. These days, this little trick could be used to get laid with. Lucky dude.
2007-06-03 16:52:39 · answer #6 · answered by Charlie 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Isn't herb supposed to be good for you? And (You know I don't qoute verses, man) Genesis 1:29 explains more about that.
2007-06-03 20:18:24 · answer #7 · answered by Da Mick 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You would probably have had a lot of people standing at your door wanting healed 500 years ago. Pops
2007-06-03 16:28:36 · answer #8 · answered by Pops 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
500 Years Ago - You would've been a healer.
Today - Some will think you're a healer. Others will think you're a fraud. Others will think you really believe in what you do, but it's just the placebo effect.
2007-06-03 16:28:39 · answer #9 · answered by Wings 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋