People have tried to predict the future since the beginning of time, and they have used some very strange things and rituals to do it. Hieromancy is one of the ancient ways they used, which is divination using entrails of animals or humans using them as a sacrifice. Sometimes the animals were alive, and they studied… Read More
Everyone knows the one about Friday the thirteen being very dodgy and people worry that something nasty will happen to them. It is commonly thought that it originates from the fact that Judas Iscariot was the 13th guest at the last supper. Also that Jesus was crucified on a Friday. However there are other believes from… Read More
It does seem strange that an innocent pack of playing cards can be traced back hundreds of years. It does need considerable skill to use the cards to do a reading and it does require that the person having a reading chooses a variety of the cards in order to get a good all round… Read More
Nostradamus or Michel de Nostredame as probably the most well-known prophet of ancient times. He was born on 21 December in 1503 in Salon-de-Provence, in France. He died 2 July 1566 aged 62. He was an author, translator, astrologer, and a consultant. He was known for making many prophecies and for treating the plague. His book ‘Les Propheties’ was… Read More
British Superstitions Even in our 21st century technological age we are still quite superstitious. Years ago, many superstitions were connected to food. In Yorkshire they used to believe that the bread would not rise if there were a corpse in the vicinity. And, if you cut off both ends of the bread it would make the Devil… Read More
In 1888 an author Edward Bellamy predicted credit cards. In his book called “Looking Backward” he wrote. Each person is given a physical punch card “with which he procures at the public storehouses, found in every community, whatever he desires whenever he desires it. This arrangement, you will see, totally obviates the necessity for business transactions of… Read More
There are some really strange superstitions. My sister-in-law for instance will not take off her cardigan or any other clothing and put it the right way round if she has accidently put them on inside out, as she believes it will bring her bad luck. But leaving it on inside out could bring her good luck. It… Read More
Years ago when I was midwife I visited a patient and after examining her and her baby we sat down with her mum for a cup of tea. Her mother told me that her husband had died suddenly recently. She then told me this strange tale. Her husband and her son were miners and worked… Read More
A park of cards as you probably will know consists of 52 cards. These are divided into four different suits, hearts, diamonds clubs and spades. Each suit has 13 cards, an ace, two, three, four, five six, seven, eight, nine, ten, knave, Queen and King. People usually call them ordinary playing cards to differentiate them from the Tarot cards…. Read More
