September. Month #9 2005
A question: Why do the words "deer" "fish" and "sheep" not change into the plural form in English?
Two new tales from Tamami Journey about Japanese superstition:
A friend's family comes down with a severe case of bad luck lasting for over one year. Family members become ill, get in car wrecks, lose money, and generally have many minor bad-luck incidents. Upon consulting a Japanese fortune teller who works for donations, they are told that their home amulet as fallen over.
In Japanese houses a small amulet that blesses the home is placed on the highest ridge beam of the house, usually located in the house's attic, upon completion of the house. The amulet and the entrance to the attic in this particular families' house had long been forgotten, and the family was suprised to hear the fortune teller say that their amulet had fallen over. After some searching, the family finds the attic entrance and the foretold amulet, which has indeed toppled over. The family purchases a new amulet from the local buddhist temple, places it upright on the beam in their attic, and enjoys the cessation of their bad luck.
Yet another friend shows up to dinner one night with strange scratch-like marks across the front of her neck. She has no idea where they came from, and seem to have appeared since earlier that day. She noticed no scratches upon waking up that morning.
After her father sees the scratches he tells his son to go pray for a cat that was hit and killed by the son's car the previous day. The scratches disapear on the girl's neck coincidet with the prayer.
Two new tales from Tamami Journey about Japanese superstition:
A friend's family comes down with a severe case of bad luck lasting for over one year. Family members become ill, get in car wrecks, lose money, and generally have many minor bad-luck incidents. Upon consulting a Japanese fortune teller who works for donations, they are told that their home amulet as fallen over.
In Japanese houses a small amulet that blesses the home is placed on the highest ridge beam of the house, usually located in the house's attic, upon completion of the house. The amulet and the entrance to the attic in this particular families' house had long been forgotten, and the family was suprised to hear the fortune teller say that their amulet had fallen over. After some searching, the family finds the attic entrance and the foretold amulet, which has indeed toppled over. The family purchases a new amulet from the local buddhist temple, places it upright on the beam in their attic, and enjoys the cessation of their bad luck.
Yet another friend shows up to dinner one night with strange scratch-like marks across the front of her neck. She has no idea where they came from, and seem to have appeared since earlier that day. She noticed no scratches upon waking up that morning.
After her father sees the scratches he tells his son to go pray for a cat that was hit and killed by the son's car the previous day. The scratches disapear on the girl's neck coincidet with the prayer.
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