2007-12-07 06:03:32 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
no offense to evil spirits or God or anything else, but worse things are around when someone does what i listed above. that's the time i need my blessing.
2007-12-07 07:51:40 · update #1
One belief is that when you sneeze your heart stops, and that is the perfect time for a demon to enter your body. By blessing someone it would prevent this from happening. Personally, I don't ascribe to this sort of thinking and when someone blesses me I get quite irritated. Mostly because it's a "white light" belief system that keeps this tradition alive. And that is an insult to my own way of thinking.
2007-12-07 07:05:37 · answer #1 · answered by Phoenix M 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It was some old superstition that when you sneeze an evil spirit could either go into you or one was around or something like that, so people would say "God bless you." to ward it off.
2007-12-07 07:41:23 · answer #2 · answered by Lady of the Garlic Elves 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because when someone sneezes, it is their soul trying to escape their body. When you say "bless you" it stuffs the soul back in.
2007-12-07 06:11:33 · answer #3 · answered by piphop 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sneezing was one of the first symptoms of a victim of the great plague of London. So if you sneezed the chances where you were on your way to meet your maker. the other things are just bodily functions
2007-12-07 06:09:25 · answer #4 · answered by Scouse 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Because that's gross! People who fart should be ashamed, not blessed! Use your head! Sneezing is gross, but it's a condition, and you have to respect that.
2007-12-07 06:10:57 · answer #5 · answered by K 3 · 0⤊ 4⤋
too busy giggling - hee hee hee
2007-12-07 06:10:56 · answer #6 · answered by Dingo 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would you want to?
2007-12-07 06:07:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋