June 15, 2025

Black Cats, Broken Mirrors, and Bad Omens

Black Cats, Broken Mirrors, and Bad Omens
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From spilled salt and cracked mirrors to cursed cats and creaky ladders, this episode dives deep into the strange and shadowy world of superstitions. Why do we still knock on wood or fear Friday the 13th? Are these just harmless rituals, or echoes of something more paranormal lurking beneath? Join Justin & Erik as they explore the origins of popular superstitions, their ties to the supernatural, and the eerie ways they’ve manifested in our investigations. Don’t walk under a ladder before hitting play—just in case.

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Welcome, Welcome, Well do para Truth Truth? What's up everybody?

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And welcome back to Paratruth Reborn or just welcome if

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you're new with us. This is a pre recorded show

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on more than seven point seven FM, New Orleans and

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United Public Radio Network.

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My name is Eric and I'm Justin.

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Justin. I got a question for you. Do you step

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on cracks or perhaps toss spilled salt over your shoulder?

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I used to not step on cracks, but now I

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don't care the salt over the shoulder. No, I don't,

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but I know plenty that do. Yeah.

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I always thought the tossing the salt over your shoulder

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is kind of a weird thing, Like I get the

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idea behind it, but then you're just making a mess

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that you have to vacuum up later. Right, it doesn't

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make much sense or you get bugs. I don't know.

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The reason I asked you that question, and the reason

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why I asked them that question, folks, is because today

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we are talking about primarily superstitions. You know, A superstition

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is basically a belief or practice that isn't based on

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facts or scientific evidence, and often involving a belief in luck, magic,

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or omens. Essentially, it's a belief that goes beyond what

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we can explain by logic or reason. Now, I personally

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am someone who tends to fall into this whole superstitious believe.

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I tend to like give into it, especially with interest

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of thoughts of the whole obsessive and compulsive nature of

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my mind.

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So it's not easy.

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But growing up, I too used to not step on cracks,

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and it was like a religious thing. I could not

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do it. I never tossed salt over my shoulder, just

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because then it would be things would be dirty. That's

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the only reason. So that's you know.

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But when it walk under ladders, I still don't do

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to still don't do that, Okay, I do now a days.

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It's just easier to walk under one than to go

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around one.

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I will say that it's not because superstition. It's just

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I don't want the ladder to fall on me or

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something from above to fall on my head. That's totally

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more safety than super sillaran.

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What are some other things like I think I would

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or do often like Okay, so when it comes to

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like my obsessive compass of nature, you know, if I

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shut a door or lock something, or turn a light off,

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and I have a negative thought. I think that negative

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thought is like solidified in the energy that I put

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into turning something off or doing something, and so I

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have to repeat it over and over and over again

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until I can clear my mind and turn the lights off,

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lock the doors, whatever, with a clear mind or with

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a positive thought. So that is often a struggle for me.

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Even when I don't want to give into the superstition,

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I still naturally give into them, and a lot of

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people out there do. Superstition is one of those things

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that is very highly regarded around the world, and especially

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in American culture, which you're going to learn pretty soon here.

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So really, let's begin with just the ancient origins of superstitions. Now,

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many common superstitions, like the belief in bad luck after

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breaking a mirror or knocking on wood, can be traced

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back to ancient cultures. For example, the Romans believed that

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breaking a mirror meant damaging was reflection, thus harming their soul.

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The practice of knocking on wood, typically done to ward

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off bad fortunes or tempting fate, is believed to stem

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from the ancient pagan beliefs that spirits were thought to

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reside in trees. Therefore, knocking on trees or wood was

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done to call upon the tree spirits for protection and

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good luck. And we'll see, like a lot of these

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superstitions do have a basis in the supernatural to begin with,

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or the spiritual, but there's also some common sense ones

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as well.

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Well. And something that is I found fascinating getting the

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research for this was that it all stems from you know,

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ancient culture, which a lot of the stuff we talk

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about today vampires, where wolves, you know that kind of

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stuff stems from that too.

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So well. While then there's of course the religious influences

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regarding the superstitions, as some superstitions are linked to religious

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beliefs and practices, though they may have evolved independently from

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the religious practice itself. For instance, the superstition of saying

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bless you after someone sneezes may have originated from the

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early belief that one could expel their soul through the sneeze,

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while others believe the term originated as a form of

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prayer to protect sneezer or the sneezing person from illness

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or plague. Now on top of that, there's also the

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psychologic sorry the psychology of belief, in which superstitions can

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also be seen as a way for individuals to feel

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more in control of situations such as I deal with

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my OCD or to cope with uncertainty or fear. Finally,

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there's cultural universality versus cultural specificity specificity. I hate long words,

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difficult words, as you all know, cultural universality suggests that

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certain traits, behaviors, or elements are shared across all cultures,

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regardless of geographic location or hysterical period. On the other hand,

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cultural specificity basically emphasizes the unique practices, traditions, and beliefs

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that distinguish different cultures from one another.

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Now, something that I found super fascinating about this is

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the poll that we did for you all to chime

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in what superstitions you believe in or practice. So we'll

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get into that later. But the classic superstitions that are

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explored here are just some of the more common ones.

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And so I know you don't follow this because you

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already have two black cats, but they're the superstition of

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black cats bringing bad luck. It has roots in various

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historical and cultural contexts. While some cultures view them as

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symbols of good luck. The association with bad luck in

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many Western traditions stems from the Middle Ages and is

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linked to associations with witches and demons. Early lore suggests

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that black cats were often recognized as the familiars of witches,

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which we've talked about on here, basically demonic anaitis that

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granted a witch her power. Now, black cats, at least

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in North American culture, are very very are also viewed

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as bad omen should one cross your path. The superstition

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also extends to black dogs. However, in many cultures around

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the world, black cats are regularly regarded as good luck

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and wards against dark or evil spirits. Now, I know

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the belief about the black dogs, and we've kind of

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talked about black dogs on here, but growing up, I

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don't think in any of these superstitions that our family

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recognized or practiced in the black dogs were a thing.

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It was always the black cats.

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Right, Yeah, black cats have notoriously been much more regarded

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in the superstitions black dogs. Obviously, it's not really so

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much American. We kind of see the black dogs happening

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more in Europe, more prominent, more prominent than black cats

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per se, but also black cats and other places around

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the world tend to be seen as good luck and

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good omens. The whole bad luck bad omen thing is

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much more North American than anything and for some reason,

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I don't know what it is, but Americans like to

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make everything darker and scarier for some reason. But yeah,

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it's still very interesting that people are using the color

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of fur on these animals to associate them with what

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is represented as evil or dark.

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Yeah, and now correct me if I'm wrong. But didn't

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you find out that or see an article about that.

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It kind of wasn't in the Middle Ages that it

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was practiced or believed that the cats were causing like

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the black pagan and stuff.

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Yeah, so there, I mean, there was a lot of

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stop sorry, sorry, my cat's chewing on my book. I

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will say that black cats are not bad luck, but

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they are nuances. They're not a little sob yes, so yeah.

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I was doing research on the Black plague every so

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every once in a while I tend to take a

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interest of mine and I research it over again. And

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in this case, I decided to look up the black

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plague and do some deeper dives, some more deeper dives

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to see what's changed because there's always new evidence coming out,

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you believe it or not, a lot of these historical

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events that are hundreds of years old are still being

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studied today, and so there's always new material coming out

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on these subject matters. Now, one of the superstitions are

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one of the beliefs was that the black plague was

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started because there was a fear longer back into thirteen hundreds.

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They believed that witches were very prominent in black cats.

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Cats in general, but primarily black cats were therefore the

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familiars of witches, and so the Europeans went around and

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killed a ton of cats, burning them and drowning them

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and all the stuff. As a result, these rats started

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to manifest more and more around people, and eventually, due

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to carrying the plague or the fleas on them that

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carried the plague in particular, started getting around food sources,

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started biting people. And yeah, it was basically like, well,

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how ironic, right, you kill all the cats? The cats

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would normally kill the rats, But there's no cats or

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the rats spread That of course, is just folklore. In reality,

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there the cats were not.

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Searched out and killed.

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I'm not saying there weren't cats that were killed at

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some point or another, but it wasn't like a mass

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killing of cats during those times. Instead, it just happened

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that these rats grew ever more popular and found their

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way onto the streets, probably looking for food sources, and

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despite having cats around to kind of limit that the

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structure of the rats, they ended up just happening to

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get to people and that things spread. And in fact,

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both cats and dogs were also subject to the Black Plague.

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So there were cats and dogs dying just the same

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as humans were, and they were being buried and burned

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or whatever next to these dead people, not burned alive

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or anything, but it was after they would pass away

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these animals. Livestock was also very prominently killed during the

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Black Plague as well. So this disease had really no

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particular interest in one person or being. It was just out,

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you know, picking out everybody basically.

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Yeah, so that I think as we were in history class, uh,

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it was it was told to us that it was

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they blamed the black cat for the plague and so

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they were killed. So it is fascinating that this this

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information is always changing. Same thing with like the velocity

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of Roanoke. They're discovering more and more now compared to

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when we first did the story.

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Well, it's wild because, like I mean, I heard the

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same thing like you and I did a whole story

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on the Black Plague, an episode on the plague, and

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that was one of the prominent things that we featured,

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where these cats that were being killed and that's why

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it spread. Now I'm not saying that. All I'm saying

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is basically the evidence that is currently being used, which

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is often dug up through our our college archaeology or

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like manuscripts that are found hitting away for hundreds of

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years that people are suddenly finding and seeing, you know,

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new information. Uh, it's just like this new info is

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kind of enlightening us, showing us more. And I'm you know,

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it doesn't mean that there weren't cats killed because of

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the witch trials and that didn't play some sort of

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effect onto the plague itself, but it would seem that

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cats and other creatures that were considered familiars were not

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actually what it's it called, like soloed out as a

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particular creature to be killed and that's what resulted in

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the plague. But it does make a fascinating story. I

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will say, like when.

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They should have just zeroed in on the rats instead

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of the cats, because rats are known to be familiars too.

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That is, that's true. But it's a lot harder to

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find a rat than it is to find a cat.

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That was very true, all right. So the next one

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on our list here is broken mirrors. Now, I will

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say that for a very long time. Again, it's not

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so much now, But when I was younger, whenever a

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mirror would break, I would always say, well, there's seven

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years of bad luck now broken mirrors. This superstition, like

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I said, brings seven years bad luck. As ancient roots,

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as Eric mentioned earlier, particularly in Roman times, the Romans

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believe the mirrors reflected one's soul and that the gods

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used these images to see into one's inner identity, and

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therefore breaking a mirror would be disrespectful to the gods

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and hence bad luck would ensue. The Romans also believed

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that the body and soul renewed themselves every seven years,

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and therefore breaking a mirror would have a negative outcome

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on the individual until the seven year period was over

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and the souls were The superstition of a broken mirror

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doesn't end there, though, they're sort of belief that though

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a broken mirror still reflects one's image and therefore their soul,

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it would reflect it in a corrupted or distorted way,

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which I've actually seen that in a broken mirror, depending

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on how bad it's been broken. Finally, there's the ever

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present belief that a mirror can act as a protective

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barrier between the physical and spiritual realms, hence the belief

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in utilizing mirrors when scrying. However, breaking the mirror and

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therefore the barrier between realms could invite negative spirits and

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energies into your life. Now, I will contradict this because

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in recent years it's been believed that mirrors are portals

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or windows or doorways into the spiritual realm, and that

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you should not have them, especially in places like you're

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sleeping arrangement, because it makes it easier for spirits.

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To affect you.

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And so I feel breaking a mirror would not be

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bad luck, but prevent that. Now, we we've talked about

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this a lot, and I don't remember have we ever

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gone over the practice of covering the mirror during a funeral.

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I actually I think we did cover it one time,

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but it's been a while.

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But yeah, so an ancient culture. I shouldn't say Asian culture.

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It was actually more recent than acient culture.

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But a lot of practices just culture though, you know,

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you gotta I asked somebody once. They asked me. It

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was a musician, asked me what kind of music I

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wanted them to play. I said, well, classic rock, and

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he's like, well, what's classic rock? You know, I'm like,

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classic rock eighties, seventies, nineties is now classic, right, you know, Like,

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I guess there's gotta be more specific these days.

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Yeah, Well, there are still cultures that do still practice us,

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like in Romania. I believe the Greek still practice this

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in certain areas where they cover the mirrors because it's

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believed that the spirit will not leave because it'll see

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its reflection in the mirror and think it's not dead,

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or it will be scared to not leave the house

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because it's seeing itself and there's a fear there. So

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there's so many conflicting beliefs now that it's a little

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bit different.

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Well that's the thing about beliefs, right, Everyone has their

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own views on how to interact with the mirror and

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what that mirror is capable of. You know, Some say

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it's a barrier, Others say it's a portal. Some so

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you should communicate through it. Some say that spirits will

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just teleport through them and come to you. We should

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have mirrors, we shouldn't have barriers. It depends on what

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you're doing with those mirrors, et cetera, et cetera. You know,

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I mean, there's been long there's long been I believe,

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or at least a discussion in which if someone were to

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be either either died or was brutally murdered in a mirror,

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that whole situation would somehow get pulled into that mirror

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as kind of like a residual haunt, and they would

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they would become trapped or the story or not the story,

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but the elements of the murder would become trapped in

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the mirror. And some will say the spirits of those

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people or that person was.

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Trapped in there, kind of like the bloody Mary, kind of.

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Like the bloody marry thing. Yeah, exactly, a candy man

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or any of those. And you know, like you said,

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some say that when you break a mirror, it's bad luck.

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Will Others say, if there's a spirit trapped in a

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mirror or trying to get teeth through a mirror. It

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is important to break that mirror because it can't come

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through the broken pieces. But instead, you know, it's just

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it's kind of stuck. There's the portal is shattered, basically,

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which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me personally,

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because now I just see, oh, you just took one

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evil spirit and created way to me, they can't all

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come out now, because a mirror is still a mirror,

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whether it's broken or not. It's reflect So very good point.

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And if pop culture has taught us anything, that Murphy's

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law is again an sob. Whatever can go wrong will

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so op. There goes the tail, there goes the tail,

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all right, So spilling salt. The superstition the spilling salt

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brings bad luck likely originated from the depiction of Judas

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Ascariat spilling assault cellar in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.

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While the painting is well known a well known representation,

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the belief that spilling salt is unlucky predata Vincie's work. Obviously,

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I feel that it would go way further back from that.

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The idea of salt being a symbol of purity and

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protection and thus a potential source of bad luck. When

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spilled may also contribute to the superstition. And Eric's particular case,

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it would be dirty, so you can't use it anymore,

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and you just dirtied your floor on top of that,

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So the fact that salt was a valuable commodity in

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some cultures, spilling it could be seen as a waste

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of resource and disrespect. I can see that, especially in

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the European cultures. On the flip side, tossing salt over

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your left shoulder is believed to blind the devil, so

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there's a link to Christianity there, prevent negative energies and

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word off evil spirits. Salt has also been used to

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create circles or bigne properties with the belief that it

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would protect the user against demons or witches, which may

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have attributed to the prior and that is actually still

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practice in the paranormal supernatural New Age communities today. Then

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I still remember to this day circling your car with

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salt when we go to investigations.

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Yep, Well there's like this, there's this thing about salt,

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and we see even like in the Bible that salt

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is considered kind of a purifying element. Whether or not

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it can actually disrupt spirit energies or purify a person

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or anything like that, we don't know. But what scriptures

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do you say, is that salt is used to basically

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sustained meat. You know, it helps to protecting, Yeah, purify

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they yeah, keep it longer. And still that kind of

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idea translates. If it's capable of doing that, then is

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capable of purifying or protecting a property as well. But

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the saltiness does lose or the salt does lose it

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saltiness eventually, that's something that needs to be considered. Right,

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So for individuals who tend to line their property their

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yard basically but the property lines of their house, some

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will put it around their home, around the yards, across doors,

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stuff like that. Once it rains or the wind blows

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heavy enough, that salt is gone and it's no longer usable.

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So there are certain things that need to be taken

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into consideration when using salt for those purposes. But yet,

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for a long time, many many years, since ancient times,

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and we're talking like Mesopotania, the salt has been seen

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and believed that it has a highering basically have a

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high regard for the purity of salt in and of itself.

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Yeah, and I think we've kind of covered this before.

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Salt is also a crystal, which many people believe crystals

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have protective properties. So all right, next up, and I

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will say I don't do this again. It's not because

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of bad luck, but it's because I don't want to

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deal with messing up the floor in the house opening

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an umbrella indoors. And that's more so coming from outside

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going inside.

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Oh wait, you mean if you're using it in the rain,

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And yeah, I was like, how are you going to

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mess up your floor if you open an umbrella but there's.

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Rain on the umbrella? Yeah, that makes more sense. Yeah,

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that's why I clarify, because it I guess, I don't know.

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It's also again a safety thing, like somebody could literally

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get hurt if you open an umbrella indoors and they're

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not paying attention. The superstision against opening umbrellas indoors likely

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originated from a combination of practical reasons and cultural beliefs.

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Early umbrellas, often made of metal with sharp smokes, with

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my point exactly, could be dangerous to open inside, causing

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accidents and damage. Additionally, in some cultures, umbrellas were seen

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as symbols of power or sun protection, and opening them

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indoors away from the sun was considered disrespectful to the

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sun god Raw Because umbrellas were seen as a form

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of protection, opening on indoors may have also been seen

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as challenging a guardian or house spirits. So I can

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kind of see where this one came from, even though

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I honestly don't know how far back the invection of

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the umbrella goes. I mean, for a very long time

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we've used coverings to protect ourselves from the elements and

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the sun, but the umbrella itself specifically, I guess, all right.

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Last one that I included in here, because again these

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are just the most common. There's so many more superstitions

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out in the world, and I think even more pop

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up daily is the evil eye. And we have kind

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of talked about this when we talked about charms and protection.

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The evil eye belief and associated practices are ancient, with

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origins tracing back to Mesopotamia around five thousand BC, with

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written and archaeological evidence suggesting even the Sumerians were some

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of the first to adopt the evil eye practices and beliefs.

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These beliefs would eventually be adopted into ancient Greek and

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Roman cultures, which I have seen a lot of that fact,

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and even the you're talking about words uber Ritic civilization,

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no idea where that is of the late Bronze Age.

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The concept of the evil I, believed to cause misfortune

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or illness through a malicious gaze, has spread to various

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cultures throughout history. The evil I also has been adopted

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into jewelryes such as Amulus to ward off harm and misfortune.

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And even when somebody would draw an evil eye, A

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lot of people believe that if an evil eye was

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being drawn, like under a better or something, that was

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to curse you. In a lot of research now it's

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hinted that that particular practice was to protect you from

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somebody using the evil eye against you. Now, I will

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ask you this, out of all the ones that we read,

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do you have you bought into any of those other

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than the black cats, of course, because obviously you have

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black cats.

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Yeah, I mean, there was a there was a time

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where I did buy into the black cats, and I

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changed over the years. Of course, honestly, I gave into

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There were a lot of these that you broken mirrors

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walking under ladders, But I've broken mirrors and I've not.

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I cannot tell you a time that I had bitterly

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seven years of bad luck. Maybe a few days, you know,

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but I don't think it was associated.

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To broken mirror.

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Broken mirror and walking under ladders. It's kind of something

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that's become common for me, either when doing yard work

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or when I'm on set working sometimes the easiest and

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safest route is to go under the ladder, especially when

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working in Tyson. And the same thing with the umbrellas.

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I used to not open umbrellas in the home, but

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of course film making kind of forced me to use

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umbrellas indoors because sometimes that's what we need to do

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for a scene, especially if you're doing like a set,

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you know where you're supposed to be outside betray Ashley

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filming inside. So that has always been relatively new for me,

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with opening the umbrellas. But yeah, for most of these,

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I mean, I don't really think too much over them.

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The evil eye is probably one of the ones that

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is least prominent to me, Like my cat gives me

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the evil eye all the time. So and it has

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been okay so far, But you know. What I think

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is really interesting about the evil eye though, is you know,

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we use the evil eye in order to ward off

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the evil eye, if you will, and so in that case,

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you're kind of using a double negative to create a positive,

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which I think is really interesting because I don't know

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if many people think about that. I do clearly, and

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I don't know. I know you have always been interested.

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In the evil eye.

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That's something that you really used as a source of

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production or have I will.

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Say they all seeing eye over the evil eye. It's

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still the same concept. It just goes back to Egyptian

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culture rather than like Mesopotamia and earlier cultures, right.

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And you know, the one thing with the evil eye

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and the all seeing eye is that it is used

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prominently throughout the world. It's one of the most popular

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symbols in use today since ancient times, sorry, since ancient times,

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and there's there seems to be no slowing down that

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the particular use for those things. You know, I see

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it's on the American American dollar, and we, like you said,

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we see it in Egypt. And it's it's wild to

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me that there's so many conspiracies around the all seeing

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eye and the evil eye, but you know that comes

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with the territory.

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I suppose yeah, well and something that I you know,

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reading through these i Asian cultures didn't have safety precautions

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like we do now. So I seriously feel it was

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easier just to blame a deity or a phenomenon or

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a spirit rather than say, hey, you're going to hurt yourself,

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don't do that, right, because the fear was there, right,

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I appreciate your concern. Apparently Gemini thinks I'm talking to it.

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I want to know what he was. Where was he

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going with that?

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I don't know. It's heard all seeing eye and heard

470
00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:53.440
ai and.

471
00:31:53.440 --> 00:32:00.000
Stuff, he said, trying to No, no, I'm not doing

472
00:32:00.079 --> 00:32:01.640
yeah about watching you?

473
00:32:01.720 --> 00:32:09.279
Are you are? So you know, all of the stuff

474
00:32:10.400 --> 00:32:15.039
in a sense has supernatural connections or paranormal connections, only

475
00:32:15.079 --> 00:32:19.680
because back in ancient cultures it was believed that the

476
00:32:19.799 --> 00:32:25.960
gods or spirits or deities or whatever was always watching you.

477
00:32:27.640 --> 00:32:32.720
So superstitions and the supernatural are deeply intertwined and often

478
00:32:32.759 --> 00:32:36.160
serving as manifestations of the belief of fate, magic, and

479
00:32:36.200 --> 00:32:43.519
unseen forces. Like you mentioned earlier, superstistms, essentially beliefs and

480
00:32:43.599 --> 00:32:48.839
practice is considered irrational or supernatural, frequently tied to notions

481
00:32:48.839 --> 00:32:53.240
of good or bad luck and perceived influence from the supernatural.

482
00:32:54.440 --> 00:32:59.599
Many superstitions arrived from the belief that unseen forces, spirits,

483
00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:04.279
or magic can affect earthly events and human experiences.

484
00:33:04.839 --> 00:33:04.920
Uh.

485
00:33:05.119 --> 00:33:09.559
This belief is often accompanied by rituals or practices intended

486
00:33:09.599 --> 00:33:16.440
to influence these unseen forces and secure favorable outcomes. So

487
00:33:16.759 --> 00:33:21.480
reading that description right there very much reminds me of

488
00:33:23.000 --> 00:33:28.160
the OCD that you suffer from daily, because it kind

489
00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:33.000
of makes you wonder that maybe these people were suffering

490
00:33:33.079 --> 00:33:38.359
from some type of OCD or whatnot because they believed

491
00:33:38.400 --> 00:33:43.799
that doing one thing would make the bad things not happen,

492
00:33:43.920 --> 00:33:47.640
which is the kind of the belief that you go

493
00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:49.039
by for your OCD.

494
00:33:49.319 --> 00:33:52.119
Right yeah, more or less, I mean, you know, and

495
00:33:52.119 --> 00:33:54.799
I think it also has the opposite, Like, you know,

496
00:33:55.279 --> 00:33:58.920
you can say that it is a mental disorder, like

497
00:33:58.960 --> 00:34:02.039
back then, people believe, based on superstition, that it was

498
00:34:02.119 --> 00:34:07.519
actually that these obsessions or the compulsions or anxiety even

499
00:34:07.599 --> 00:34:12.400
were created by spirits, as opposed to just the mind

500
00:34:12.440 --> 00:34:18.480
itself being fallible and therefore corrupted and capable of falling

501
00:34:18.519 --> 00:34:23.000
into disease or illness of some sort. But on the

502
00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:26.440
flip side, these are things that can also very well

503
00:34:26.519 --> 00:34:29.800
be spiritual. We have, or at least I have seen

504
00:34:29.880 --> 00:34:32.440
and have heard stories of people who were prayed over

505
00:34:32.559 --> 00:34:37.000
because of schizophrenia or depression or anxiety, and after praying

506
00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:40.360
over them and casting out various demons, those people were

507
00:34:40.400 --> 00:34:42.760
cured from those things and they've been living happy and

508
00:34:42.800 --> 00:34:47.039
well ever since, free from their disorders. Now, I do

509
00:34:47.199 --> 00:34:50.199
think that there's probably the probatical hand in hand or

510
00:34:50.199 --> 00:34:53.360
some individuals who have spiritual attachments that create these types

511
00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:55.719
of things, and then there are some people who don't

512
00:34:55.840 --> 00:35:00.320
and they just have unfortunately a mind that so first

513
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:03.119
from these various illnesses.

514
00:35:04.079 --> 00:35:07.519
Well, we've talked about how it could be both too,

515
00:35:07.559 --> 00:35:15.239
that spirit or demon can exacerbate the mental illness or

516
00:35:15.280 --> 00:35:17.559
disorder to cause it even further harm.

517
00:35:17.760 --> 00:35:21.199
And you know, and that's something that I have witnessed personally.

518
00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:24.599
You know, where my anxiety or OCD, you know, is calm,

519
00:35:24.639 --> 00:35:26.519
and then all of a sudden, I'm in a situation

520
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:33.320
where there is a spirit or an entity. And they

521
00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:37.960
use the word entity separate from spirit because an entity

522
00:35:38.239 --> 00:35:42.880
is usually considered a demonic or evil type. Spirit whereas

523
00:35:42.880 --> 00:35:44.920
a spirit is usually referred to as a ghost or

524
00:35:45.000 --> 00:35:49.559
or something good, but can also be used to or

525
00:35:49.599 --> 00:35:52.760
negative as well. But yeah, you know, when I go

526
00:35:52.760 --> 00:35:55.599
into those situations as homes or those places where maybe

527
00:35:55.599 --> 00:35:59.679
a darker entity is, then my anxiety, my depression, the OCD,

528
00:35:59.800 --> 00:36:04.760
the obsessiveness especially tends to build and become stronger, and

529
00:36:05.199 --> 00:36:09.119
it's harder to fight against those things when it's being

530
00:36:09.280 --> 00:36:14.079
influenced by an entityism. So yeah, I agree. I think

531
00:36:14.119 --> 00:36:16.159
they can certainly go hand in hand, and some people

532
00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:20.559
suffer from both, and so it's important to get the

533
00:36:20.639 --> 00:36:24.480
spiritual help while also seeking the physical or mental help

534
00:36:25.400 --> 00:36:29.199
from a psychiatrist or therapist or whatever your self help

535
00:36:29.199 --> 00:36:30.840
books things like that. You know, you have to work

536
00:36:30.880 --> 00:36:34.480
both sides, because if you work one more than the other,

537
00:36:34.559 --> 00:36:36.360
then they're always going to be lacking. You're always going

538
00:36:36.400 --> 00:36:39.079
to be struggling somewhere. So it's important to be well

539
00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:45.880
rounded and find balance. Yeah, yeah, in any aspect of

540
00:36:45.920 --> 00:36:48.639
your life exactly now.

541
00:36:48.679 --> 00:36:52.119
Superstisions often revolve around the idea that certain events or

542
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:55.719
occurrences are signs of future events, either good or bad.

543
00:36:56.320 --> 00:37:01.199
We see this in like Dappelganger sightings and stuff like

544
00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:05.960
that as well. I'm sure we did an episode on this,

545
00:37:06.039 --> 00:37:10.039
but like Abraham Linking seeing his dappleganger in the mirror

546
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:12.440
and the one side of his face was kind of

547
00:37:12.480 --> 00:37:15.880
like a dead face, very gray, and then I think

548
00:37:15.880 --> 00:37:18.480
it was only a few months later when he was assassinated.

549
00:37:19.559 --> 00:37:22.880
So another example of this is seeing a black cat

550
00:37:23.039 --> 00:37:25.840
crossing your path is often considered a bad omen, while

551
00:37:25.840 --> 00:37:29.079
finding a penny is seen as good luck unless it's

552
00:37:29.119 --> 00:37:31.800
face down, which this does not say, I forgot to

553
00:37:31.840 --> 00:37:35.239
put there. Face up is good luck, face down is

554
00:37:35.280 --> 00:37:41.159
bad luck. Another thing for the penny situation is a

555
00:37:41.159 --> 00:37:44.599
lot of people believe that finding coins can be considered

556
00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:49.039
a sign from the spirit realm, if you're looking for

557
00:37:49.079 --> 00:37:54.360
a sign and ask for that particular sign. Superstitions can

558
00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:57.440
also stem from a fear of the unknown and the

559
00:37:57.480 --> 00:38:02.000
desire to exert some control over unpredictable situations. Engaging in

560
00:38:02.039 --> 00:38:05.519
superstitious behaviors like wearing a lucky charm or performing a

561
00:38:05.599 --> 00:38:08.960
ritual can provide a sense of control and reduce anxiety

562
00:38:09.079 --> 00:38:13.119
in the face of uncertainty. I mean, look at a

563
00:38:13.159 --> 00:38:19.440
lot of the athletes to this day will have like

564
00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:23.039
a lucky sock they wear, or that they never wash

565
00:38:23.119 --> 00:38:26.880
for years on it right or jockstrab Oh disgusting.

566
00:38:27.079 --> 00:38:28.360
Why do you have to bring that up? Come on,

567
00:38:28.599 --> 00:38:30.599
this is supposed to be a clean, family friendly show.

568
00:38:32.639 --> 00:38:35.159
I didn't say anything other than jocks.

569
00:38:37.400 --> 00:38:39.920
Well, I you know, you and I both also have

570
00:38:40.559 --> 00:38:43.639
of course have lucky charms or whatever.

571
00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.960
Yeah, you know, get a lucky penny in my pocket

572
00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:49.239
for months after I've found it before.

573
00:38:50.360 --> 00:38:53.039
And you know I I of course wore my black

574
00:38:53.039 --> 00:38:56.480
opsitian ambulate that I would always wear and like some

575
00:38:56.519 --> 00:38:58.760
of these things, you know, they served their purpose for

576
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:01.639
a while and then there least and you put them wherever,

577
00:39:01.719 --> 00:39:03.880
you know, get rid of them, or you just like

578
00:39:03.920 --> 00:39:07.639
my I don't wear my amulet anymore, just no real reason,

579
00:39:08.159 --> 00:39:10.519
just already where two necklaces and adding a third is

580
00:39:10.559 --> 00:39:15.679
like oof. But on occasion, if heavy, yeah, if at

581
00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:19.760
occasion though if sorry, if the energy is like negative

582
00:39:19.800 --> 00:39:21.599
round me, I'm feeling that thickness, I'm feeling some sort

583
00:39:21.639 --> 00:39:23.639
of some sort of way where it feels like an

584
00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:27.239
energy source is affecting me in a bad way. I

585
00:39:27.280 --> 00:39:30.519
will go ahead and put on that black op city

586
00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:34.519
and amulet that I have and almost immediately I feel

587
00:39:34.639 --> 00:39:37.639
the difference. I feel that energy change just because of

588
00:39:38.280 --> 00:39:42.039
uh it's source the power that black opsidian has in

589
00:39:42.199 --> 00:39:46.320
absorbing negative energies, and the same goes with like any

590
00:39:46.360 --> 00:39:49.400
other type of crystal for that matter, whatever your particular

591
00:39:49.440 --> 00:39:52.800
crystal is. I know some people ID identify it with crystals,

592
00:39:53.360 --> 00:39:56.559
kind of resonate with them, but also just various metals.

593
00:39:56.559 --> 00:39:59.280
You know, we think of the Saint Christopher medallions that

594
00:39:59.360 --> 00:40:01.199
we had one upon a time. I mean, there's one

595
00:40:01.239 --> 00:40:05.119
you sent me, sent me this cross if for those

596
00:40:05.119 --> 00:40:08.000
of you watching you can see online this guy has

597
00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.320
a Saint Christopher on the back. Here on the front,

598
00:40:11.079 --> 00:40:13.239
well in the middle there is the Saint Christopher coin.

599
00:40:13.280 --> 00:40:14.360
So it's the front and back.

600
00:40:15.280 --> 00:40:16.079
Is that there?

601
00:40:16.119 --> 00:40:19.840
We go? Yeah, yes, anyway, but yeah, you know, so

602
00:40:19.880 --> 00:40:23.360
there's things like that which kind of help with protection.

603
00:40:23.480 --> 00:40:28.559
And whether or not they truly help in protecting or

604
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:32.280
providing good luck, we don't really know. It could simply

605
00:40:32.320 --> 00:40:35.119
be there as like a change of mind. When we

606
00:40:35.199 --> 00:40:39.559
believe something to be helpful for us, we tend to

607
00:40:39.639 --> 00:40:42.199
find that we have better luck when we have those

608
00:40:42.239 --> 00:40:45.639
objects on us. Yeah, I can't tell you how many

609
00:40:45.679 --> 00:40:47.719
times I'd have a bad day because I forgot something

610
00:40:47.760 --> 00:40:50.440
that I normally carry on me, you know, like I

611
00:40:50.480 --> 00:40:52.480
do not take the two necklaces that I wear. One

612
00:40:52.519 --> 00:40:54.639
is recent, more recent, but the one I've had on

613
00:40:54.719 --> 00:40:57.559
for a little over two years now and I've not

614
00:40:57.599 --> 00:41:00.199
taken it off, you know, I mean not occasion here

615
00:41:00.239 --> 00:41:02.199
or there when swimming, but I feel naked without it.

616
00:41:02.239 --> 00:41:05.000
So you know, it's one of those things where if

617
00:41:05.159 --> 00:41:07.639
if it leaves me that I feel like something's missing.

618
00:41:07.800 --> 00:41:10.079
And I think for a lot of people that's what

619
00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:14.480
happens when you have these lucky charms or amulets and

620
00:41:14.519 --> 00:41:14.960
what have you.

621
00:41:16.119 --> 00:41:20.199
Well, look at modern day Christianity that a lot many,

622
00:41:20.559 --> 00:41:23.400
I would I don't say all, but many wear the

623
00:41:23.480 --> 00:41:27.360
cross or the cross with Jesus on it. Although there

624
00:41:27.360 --> 00:41:30.679
are many Christians that believe that. You know, in the

625
00:41:30.719 --> 00:41:34.079
Bible it says do not worship idols, and that is

626
00:41:34.119 --> 00:41:35.800
considered a kind of idol.

627
00:41:36.400 --> 00:41:41.639
So yeah, I think, yeah, I mean that's I feel

628
00:41:41.639 --> 00:41:45.719
like that's a little bit more of the word is.

629
00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:48.000
But I feel like there's a little more to it

630
00:41:48.039 --> 00:41:49.880
than that, you know, because like worshiping an idol is

631
00:41:49.920 --> 00:41:52.880
literally like placing an idol and worshiping it, like that's

632
00:41:52.920 --> 00:41:56.880
the thing. Oh no, yeah, you know, whereas a cross

633
00:41:56.880 --> 00:41:58.559
for most people. Not saying that there are people who

634
00:41:58.599 --> 00:42:04.480
idolize a crucifix, but it's more of a representation of none, right,

635
00:42:04.519 --> 00:42:06.519
it's just as people. And of course, mind you, and

636
00:42:06.559 --> 00:42:08.639
this is one of the reasons I don't typically wear

637
00:42:08.679 --> 00:42:11.079
a cross is because there are so many individuals who

638
00:42:11.159 --> 00:42:14.960
wear crosses as a fashion statement. They don't believe in God,

639
00:42:15.000 --> 00:42:18.360
they're not Christians, and it kind of, in all honesty,

640
00:42:18.400 --> 00:42:20.880
disgusts me that people would wear it and adopt it,

641
00:42:20.880 --> 00:42:23.760
and I don't. I don't like being associated with something

642
00:42:23.800 --> 00:42:30.320
that is widespread use for something other than what it's

643
00:42:30.400 --> 00:42:34.760
true purpose is. And that's not to say it's wrong.

644
00:42:34.880 --> 00:42:36.719
It's wrong for anyone to wear a cross, you know.

645
00:42:37.320 --> 00:42:39.280
I still have them that I wear an occasion, but

646
00:42:39.480 --> 00:42:41.920
it's just something I'm like, anyone could look at that

647
00:42:41.960 --> 00:42:44.400
cross and the first thought is it, Oh that's a Christian,

648
00:42:44.679 --> 00:42:47.199
that's the Oh that's a cross necklace, and that's it.

649
00:42:48.079 --> 00:42:51.559
So I tend to adopt symbols and things that kind

650
00:42:51.559 --> 00:42:56.400
of are like speaking pieces, you know, something that initiates

651
00:42:56.400 --> 00:43:01.079
a conversation. Yeah.

652
00:43:01.199 --> 00:43:04.599
So I'll ask you this, and I mean we can

653
00:43:04.639 --> 00:43:07.360
both kind of give our insights on it. But do

654
00:43:07.519 --> 00:43:14.800
superstitions invite spirits or energies instead of protecting you if

655
00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:19.760
you will? I think it depends. I mean, I know

656
00:43:19.800 --> 00:43:21.960
it's kind of like the easy way out saying it depends,

657
00:43:21.960 --> 00:43:25.239
but it's true. I think depending on the superstition, it

658
00:43:25.280 --> 00:43:30.119
can either invite or protect a person from a spiritual

659
00:43:30.159 --> 00:43:34.960
attack in this case, or negative energy. You know, when

660
00:43:35.000 --> 00:43:40.840
you adapt the superstitions, you are naturally allowing yourself to

661
00:43:40.920 --> 00:43:43.920
keep an open mind to the world around you that

662
00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:47.719
is unseen, and therefore you constantly have this door open,

663
00:43:48.920 --> 00:43:51.719
but you trust in that object or whatever the superstition is,

664
00:43:51.800 --> 00:43:55.119
whether it's not opening an umbrella, whether it's wearing certain objects,

665
00:43:55.119 --> 00:44:01.000
whether it's throwing salt over your shoulder. On the flip side,

666
00:44:02.480 --> 00:44:05.920
I think if you were to not live in superstitions,

667
00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:08.599
you're probably more closed off to some of the spiritual

668
00:44:09.039 --> 00:44:10.679
realm and some of the things around you that are

669
00:44:10.760 --> 00:44:14.480
unseen to some extent in most cases. And if that's

670
00:44:14.519 --> 00:44:16.519
the case, it all comes down to one thing.

671
00:44:16.599 --> 00:44:19.079
You know, how is that door being opened, and whether

672
00:44:19.159 --> 00:44:20.519
or not it is being opened, and a lot of

673
00:44:20.519 --> 00:44:23.400
it is based on belief. You know, when you consider

674
00:44:24.039 --> 00:44:25.760
We've said this plenty times. All you have to really

675
00:44:25.800 --> 00:44:28.880
do is think about a negative energy or a negative

676
00:44:29.000 --> 00:44:33.719
entity coming through whatever type of song that you're listening to,

677
00:44:34.159 --> 00:44:36.480
or maybe it's a movie you're watching, and then all

678
00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:38.320
of a sudden, people start reacting to things that are

679
00:44:38.320 --> 00:44:41.000
happening around them. They don't understand why, and I think

680
00:44:41.039 --> 00:44:44.119
it's because of mind. Our minds in general are very powerful,

681
00:44:44.119 --> 00:44:46.960
and they're capable of opening doors whether we mean to

682
00:44:47.239 --> 00:44:47.760
or not.

683
00:44:50.800 --> 00:44:56.880
I would agree with that that it can invite negative

684
00:44:56.880 --> 00:45:01.599
spirits or energies in just especially if somebody is really obsessing,

685
00:45:01.679 --> 00:45:09.559
like you're saying, where if you're thinking about black eyed children,

686
00:45:09.639 --> 00:45:12.119
for example, and then all of a sudden you're having

687
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:18.559
these visitations if you will, which I actually I have

688
00:45:18.679 --> 00:45:26.719
not seen evidence of that particular entity being used. But

689
00:45:26.760 --> 00:45:28.599
the only reason I bring it up is because I

690
00:45:28.639 --> 00:45:32.320
don't know why. But as of late, I've seriously been

691
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:37.159
getting weird vibes at night and thinking, God, is there

692
00:45:37.199 --> 00:45:40.159
going to be black eyed kids at my door? Or like,

693
00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:43.199
are stuff gonna start flying off the walls or something.

694
00:45:43.519 --> 00:45:46.880
I don't know why, No, particular reason at all why

695
00:45:47.280 --> 00:45:54.320
I'm worried about that. Now. I put this in here

696
00:45:54.760 --> 00:45:58.440
mostly because I feel like it has only with the salt.

697
00:45:58.960 --> 00:46:05.360
But have superstisians played a role in any of our investigations?

698
00:46:05.960 --> 00:46:09.039
M I mean yeah, I mean you said at the

699
00:46:09.039 --> 00:46:10.960
beginning of the show, we hit the saw around the

700
00:46:10.960 --> 00:46:13.880
car every time we left it on an investigator before

701
00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:16.639
we got into it the US. Just like when we

702
00:46:16.639 --> 00:46:18.760
first started investigation, we would circle the car with the

703
00:46:18.800 --> 00:46:24.599
salt maketion the spirits crossed over, believing that spirits acrossover. Likewise,

704
00:46:24.599 --> 00:46:27.119
we also wore the Saint Christopher medallions for a while.

705
00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:31.360
We also kept crystals in our pockets while on investigations

706
00:46:31.400 --> 00:46:34.480
to kind of help create this protective barrier. So yeah,

707
00:46:34.639 --> 00:46:38.039
I would say we definitely have at times allowed superstition

708
00:46:38.280 --> 00:46:44.960
to take part. I guess within our investigations. Whether or

709
00:46:44.960 --> 00:46:49.360
not they influence the investigation, I can't say, but.

710
00:46:50.760 --> 00:46:54.679
Right, yeah, that's the only thing I could think of

711
00:46:54.880 --> 00:47:02.840
was the salt. But yeah, the medallions too. Now, I

712
00:47:02.880 --> 00:47:05.119
had put this in here just because I've sent you

713
00:47:05.199 --> 00:47:10.159
so many videos over the years about things being posted

714
00:47:10.199 --> 00:47:17.480
on TikTok YouTube. But modern superstitions and social media. There's

715
00:47:17.599 --> 00:47:21.360
so much being blasted out there right now. Angel numbers,

716
00:47:21.639 --> 00:47:25.280
which is a practice before people were throwing it out

717
00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:31.679
onto social media, manifestation rituals, TikTok spells. I don't know

718
00:47:31.800 --> 00:47:35.199
people were throwing spells out on TikTok, but apparently it's

719
00:47:35.559 --> 00:47:43.559
the case our new supersistent superstitions just old beliefs being

720
00:47:43.599 --> 00:47:44.960
put into modern clothing.

721
00:47:45.639 --> 00:47:50.119
Absolutely, yeah, I mean most cases, not all. Some of

722
00:47:50.119 --> 00:47:54.760
them are just simply new. We live in a world

723
00:47:54.880 --> 00:47:58.480
now where you know, we call it the New Age,

724
00:47:58.480 --> 00:48:01.159
and of course the New Age is a very broad

725
00:48:01.239 --> 00:48:04.320
umbrella term for all the things that people are doing

726
00:48:04.400 --> 00:48:08.039
or experiencing these days. You know, we have we have

727
00:48:08.199 --> 00:48:12.159
Christian witches, which is relatively new. I've had that discussion

728
00:48:12.320 --> 00:48:15.960
just this week with somebody that was interesting, you know.

729
00:48:16.239 --> 00:48:21.039
But there are so many individuals who I think are

730
00:48:21.079 --> 00:48:24.199
starting to fall into superstitions more and more these days,

731
00:48:24.280 --> 00:48:26.639
especially with how things have been turning when it comes

732
00:48:26.679 --> 00:48:28.800
to wars, when it comes to American politics, when it

733
00:48:28.800 --> 00:48:31.880
comes to it just real politics for that matter, when

734
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:34.440
it comes to daily living and how one person that

735
00:48:34.480 --> 00:48:37.519
lives their life versus somebody else and whether or not

736
00:48:37.559 --> 00:48:40.039
someone's going through a bad situation or a good situation,

737
00:48:40.199 --> 00:48:44.840
Like what are the things that influence either or And

738
00:48:44.920 --> 00:48:46.119
so yeah, you know, I think there are a lot

739
00:48:46.119 --> 00:48:50.880
of people who, you know, they want in this case,

740
00:48:50.960 --> 00:48:54.719
like thinking about angel numbers and thinking about the manifestation

741
00:48:55.519 --> 00:48:58.440
rituals and TikTok spells and all of that. You know,

742
00:48:58.519 --> 00:49:02.320
people want some sort of physical way to kind of

743
00:49:02.440 --> 00:49:06.000
balance their understanding of the modern world with their own beliefs.

744
00:49:06.760 --> 00:49:10.480
And sometimes it's hard, Like even personally as a Christian,

745
00:49:10.519 --> 00:49:12.679
you know, it's very hard for me sometimes to just

746
00:49:13.280 --> 00:49:15.519
fully have faith that God is going to come through,

747
00:49:15.599 --> 00:49:18.920
that he's gonna, you know, be there for me, that

748
00:49:18.960 --> 00:49:20.800
he's going to come through on his promises that he's

749
00:49:20.840 --> 00:49:22.920
promised me. And that's a natural thing, I think for

750
00:49:23.039 --> 00:49:26.719
any human being to fall into, to have that doubt

751
00:49:26.760 --> 00:49:29.599
every once in a while. But some people take it

752
00:49:29.800 --> 00:49:32.199
much further and they want something a little more physical

753
00:49:32.320 --> 00:49:33.840
that they can kind of do on their own. It

754
00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:37.400
because more of a selfish And for those of you

755
00:49:37.400 --> 00:49:39.280
who I hope you don't take that word too personal,

756
00:49:39.320 --> 00:49:42.119
because I know selfish could be kind of harsh, but

757
00:49:42.199 --> 00:49:50.400
it's a selfish way of trying to find ones, of course,

758
00:49:50.840 --> 00:49:54.880
I guess right, So instead of praying to God for help,

759
00:49:55.039 --> 00:49:57.760
people want to start manifesting things on their own. They

760
00:49:57.760 --> 00:50:03.079
want to start creating things happening in their lives on

761
00:50:03.159 --> 00:50:04.719
their own, and so that's where the spulls come in.

762
00:50:05.360 --> 00:50:08.880
So it becomes very very personal in that sense, and

763
00:50:08.920 --> 00:50:11.440
I think that's going to continue to happen as the

764
00:50:11.559 --> 00:50:15.159
years move on. Like where exactly we're going, I have

765
00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:17.199
no clue, Like at this point, I have no idea.

766
00:50:17.480 --> 00:50:19.320
I thought we're going somewhere good years ago, you know,

767
00:50:19.360 --> 00:50:20.519
I thought we were going to be living in some

768
00:50:20.559 --> 00:50:23.360
crazy futuristic world right now. Yeah, still I think we're

769
00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:27.159
falling backwards, so waiting for Deanenterthos to pop up soon.

770
00:50:28.039 --> 00:50:29.440
Or some type of dystopia.

771
00:50:29.679 --> 00:50:37.920
So sort of just they it's yeah, yeah, all right.

772
00:50:38.000 --> 00:50:40.360
So, like I mentioned earlier, we did do a poll.

773
00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:46.239
For those that participated, I created a little pie chart here.

774
00:50:47.159 --> 00:50:55.320
So the majority of beliefs was I avoid walking under

775
00:50:55.480 --> 00:50:58.119
ladders That was twenty seven point three percent.

776
00:51:00.280 --> 00:51:03.360
On wood for luck that was twenty seven point three percent.

777
00:51:04.559 --> 00:51:08.840
Next was I won't open umbrellas in doors. That was

778
00:51:08.880 --> 00:51:13.239
eighteen point two percent. I tossed salt over my shoulder

779
00:51:13.400 --> 00:51:17.480
that was only nine point one percent, black cats crossing

780
00:51:17.519 --> 00:51:21.880
your path was nine point one percent, and breaking a

781
00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:27.920
mere seven years bad luck nine point one percent. Now it.

782
00:51:31.599 --> 00:51:33.920
Is a huge.

783
00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:40.840
Eye opener to see that even today people are practicing

784
00:51:42.199 --> 00:51:50.480
the protection against these superstitions. But final thoughts for you,

785
00:51:53.280 --> 00:51:58.880
are superstitions real? And should we protect ourselves against them?

786
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:02.360
I think the real if you want them to be real,

787
00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:05.719
you know, we I there's a saying that says that

788
00:52:05.800 --> 00:52:08.840
we create our own bad luck, and I think that's

789
00:52:08.920 --> 00:52:12.400
very true. When you put your mind on the idea

790
00:52:12.480 --> 00:52:14.960
that only negative things are going to happen, then the

791
00:52:15.039 --> 00:52:18.119
chances are only negative things will happen. And it's not

792
00:52:18.159 --> 00:52:20.000
because the world is not to get you, but it's

793
00:52:20.000 --> 00:52:22.679
because you trick your own mind and body into doing

794
00:52:22.760 --> 00:52:28.239
things that evolve into negative outcomes. And now I'm one

795
00:52:28.239 --> 00:52:31.079
who does knock on wood on occasion when I say something,

796
00:52:31.159 --> 00:52:32.920
you know, and usually I say something kind of a joke,

797
00:52:33.599 --> 00:52:36.760
and that's when the knock on wood comes in. But nonetheless,

798
00:52:36.840 --> 00:52:39.920
you know, that's that's something that I do, whether or

799
00:52:39.920 --> 00:52:43.280
not I believe that whatever it is is actually going

800
00:52:43.320 --> 00:52:47.320
to happen if I don't knock on wood. That's a

801
00:52:47.320 --> 00:52:49.800
hard one, you know, that's like that's psychiatry because like

802
00:52:49.840 --> 00:52:51.559
in part of me is like I don't, but they

803
00:52:51.559 --> 00:52:53.559
are parlor to me is like, yeah, I kind of do.

804
00:52:53.920 --> 00:52:55.719
Like if I don't knock on that wood, something might happen.

805
00:52:56.920 --> 00:53:00.800
But it's all part of the OCD obsessions caquestions. That's

806
00:53:00.800 --> 00:53:02.760
why I give into them, because there is a part

807
00:53:02.800 --> 00:53:05.559
of me that does believe that bad things will happen

808
00:53:05.679 --> 00:53:10.559
if I don't fix them by doing the little rituals.

809
00:53:11.159 --> 00:53:14.880
But yeah, no, I do think that that people often

810
00:53:14.960 --> 00:53:18.400
will create their own bad luck more than anything. And

811
00:53:18.440 --> 00:53:25.440
so it's important again to kind of read or watch

812
00:53:25.559 --> 00:53:29.280
self help books or videos to help you understand yourself

813
00:53:29.320 --> 00:53:31.920
and understand the world and understand the situations you're going

814
00:53:31.920 --> 00:53:37.840
through so that you can manifest better outcomes for your life.

815
00:53:37.920 --> 00:53:40.119
And part of that is really just having a positive

816
00:53:40.119 --> 00:53:41.719
outlook on things, which isn't easy.

817
00:53:41.880 --> 00:53:44.880
It's very much not easy, Easier said than done, as

818
00:53:44.880 --> 00:53:47.199
I always say, Yeah.

819
00:53:46.599 --> 00:53:49.000
But I think truly that's the first step. Like if

820
00:53:49.039 --> 00:53:51.159
we want to break, for any from these superstitions, we

821
00:53:51.199 --> 00:53:55.079
need to trust that good things will happen, even if

822
00:53:55.079 --> 00:53:58.760
we happen to open umbrella indoors or walk under a letter.

823
00:54:00.360 --> 00:54:05.320
Yeah, there's there's so many things going on in this

824
00:54:05.400 --> 00:54:11.079
day and age that fear of the unknown, or of

825
00:54:11.159 --> 00:54:16.079
superstitions or what have you, I feel is the least

826
00:54:16.079 --> 00:54:22.159
of our worries right now. So if you didn't participate

827
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:26.840
in the poll, our question to you is what is

828
00:54:26.880 --> 00:54:30.760
the weirdest superstition you follow? Put it in the comments,

829
00:54:31.400 --> 00:54:34.320
you know, reach out to us on social media, even

830
00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:37.159
you can even email us if you like. That's fine too.

831
00:54:39.679 --> 00:54:42.000
Anything else you can think of that we might have

832
00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:50.079
missed for superstitions, I don't think so. Okay, So I

833
00:54:50.559 --> 00:54:53.960
really wanted to do this episode because when we first

834
00:54:54.199 --> 00:54:56.920
started up paratruth At, one of the first ones we

835
00:54:57.000 --> 00:55:01.360
did was Friday the thirteenth and superstition. And my birthday

836
00:55:01.400 --> 00:55:06.639
falls on Friday the thirteenth this year, and so it

837
00:55:06.840 --> 00:55:09.000
just brought that to the forefront of my mind. Not

838
00:55:09.079 --> 00:55:13.079
that I've ever thought Friday the thirteenth is or my

839
00:55:13.159 --> 00:55:15.360
birthday falling off Friday the thirteenth is bad luck or

840
00:55:15.360 --> 00:55:19.639
anything like that, but that's one of those common ones too,

841
00:55:19.719 --> 00:55:26.519
which we actually didn't cover this time, but next week

842
00:55:26.639 --> 00:55:32.039
we'll be talking about the American witch trials. Eric will

843
00:55:32.400 --> 00:55:35.320
be gone for this one. He's got work again. So

844
00:55:35.440 --> 00:55:39.360
I'm gonna be bringing on JJ Rose, which is has

845
00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:43.880
been on several shows on UPRN. I want to say

846
00:55:43.920 --> 00:55:46.119
she has her own show, one hundred percent on that.

847
00:55:48.199 --> 00:55:51.000
But make sure you like, share, subscribe no matter where

848
00:55:51.079 --> 00:55:54.199
you listen. Again, this has been a pre recorded show

849
00:55:54.280 --> 00:55:57.880
on Public Radio Network and when I was seven point

850
00:55:57.960 --> 00:56:01.360
at seven FM, New Orleans. Make sure you're checking out

851
00:56:01.400 --> 00:56:05.239
all the great shows that are on UPRN, even the

852
00:56:05.280 --> 00:56:07.239
one that is before us and the one that is

853
00:56:07.280 --> 00:56:11.159
after us, because there are some great shows. And yeah,

854
00:56:11.400 --> 00:56:17.639
until next week where you'll find us, same time, same channel.

855
00:56:17.920 --> 00:56:20.800
My name is Justin and i'n Eric Peace