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sunshinemiss -> BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 7:22:19 AM)
No, this is not about The Who. Summer is coming, and it is time to review the rules of heat so you will be safe... Koreans believe that staying in a room with a fan turned on will kill you (I swear - they believe it). Here's a really well written blog about the superstition: http://askakorean.blogspot.com/2009/01/fan-death-is-real.html What is the weirdest superstition you have heard.... or someone you know has heard... or your sister-in-law's third cousin, twice removed on your mother's side heard from her best friend's boss' great-grandfather's golf buddy? (Yes, I know... One person's superstition is another person's religion... let's try to stay out of that potential clusterfunk. best, sunshine

LadyHibiscus -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 8:20:48 AM)
Superstitions I got nothing but I has it on Good Authority (my mommy) that the old timers used PARSELY as to all-purpose curse-removing herb. Take that for what it might be worth.

pahunkboy -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 8:25:41 AM)
Ahh- I thought it was fan as in groupee. I personally do not like a fan blowing on me. We have a heat wave here in PA now- so the AC is in. I have it on- when I drift off to sleep - but when I get up in the middle of night I turn it off. Driving with the window down can give one a pain in the neck--- a blowing fan can add to a cold- but it does not kill someone.

OttersSwim -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 8:47:44 AM)
One wonders if this fear is the reason -why- fans have an osculate button? I mean, was the -fear of death- the impetus behind the invention of making the fan head rotate back and forth? GASP!

pahunkboy -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 8:52:51 AM)
I wonder if they include ceiling fans.

Hillwilliam -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 8:56:21 AM)
It's bad luck to be superstitious.

Muttling -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 9:00:29 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam It's bad luck to be superstitious. LMAO...I'm so going to plagiarize this!!!!!

LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 12:20:52 PM)
My grandmother was full of superstitions, being from "The Old Country". She was born in the 19th century & had it on good authority that going to bed with wet hair would cause something terribly dire. I've forgotten exactly what it was. Because now I'm the old one. sigh

pahunkboy -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 12:23:53 PM)
Gosh- I never heard of not going to bed w wet hair- I would not want to do that-= it would mess up the pillow cases.

Arpig -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 12:27:10 PM)
The weirdest superstition I ever heard? Brace yourself. When I was in Pnom Penh, the maid told me that in her village they believed that demons possessed people, and entered through the nose. So when a person was possessed, they would hang them upside down by their ankles and slowly pour water in their nostrils to flush out the demon.

pahunkboy -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 12:28:27 PM)
I never use a wet blanket in my bed. I could drowned.

MaxsBoy -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 1:11:38 PM)
I have heard people say that snakes can bite their own tail, turn themselves into a hoop, and roll after you down the street. One woman even swore up and down that it happened to her. It seems to be a southern (U.S.) superstition, I've never heard it up north.

Hillwilliam -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 1:19:02 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Muttling quote: ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam It's bad luck to be superstitious. LMAO...I'm so going to plagiarize this!!!!! Please feel free to use it any time.

DesFIP -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 3:26:48 PM)
The kid keeps a fan on even during winter, but if the a c isn't on, the windows are open here. Since space in Seoul is an expensive commodity, it makes sense the risk of turning yourself into a convection oven turkey is much higher, as the rooms are smaller, so it will happen faster than in a room with much more air to start with. However that comment about third hand smoke can't really harm you is full of it. Talk to my ENT. The teen's best friend and best friend's father and brother all smoke heavily. He comes home and I get sick. As in sinus infections. If I'm vigilant about getting him to undress in the laundry room and immediately go shower, I don't. If I'm not, it's antibiotic time again. In New England it's not uncommon to see a horseshoe hanging (ends up) outside a front door. It's believed that the luck will run out of the house if the ends are facing down. As to where it comes from? An early letter of George Washington as a surveyor talking about some property that turned out to be all swampy. He said you would be exceedingly lucky in this patch of ground to find a horseshoe again if your horse lost it. And although I know it's not true, there's one above my front door nonetheless.

TreasureKY -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 3:46:12 PM)
I don't suppose you could really call it a "superstition", but my grandfather was a strong believer in water witching... more formally known as dowsing. I grew up hearing it called divining, and it was never called water witching. Grandpa was a very religious man and anything with the name "witch" would have put him off. Apparently he never read anything like this. [:D] Edited to add: It looks like people are claiming that Albert Einstein was convinced of the authenticity of dowsing. He is reported to have said, "I know very well that many scientists consider dowsing as they do astrology, as a type of ancient superstition. According to my conviction this is, however, unjustified. The dowsing rod is a simple instrument which shows the reaction of the human nervous system to certain factors which are unknown to us at this time."

sunshinemiss -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 3:53:03 PM)
whoa... Just for you Treasure - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXqocPAz1k

TreasureKY -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 4:01:39 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: sunshinemiss whoa... Just for you Treasure - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXqocPAz1k My grandfather would be rolling over in his grave. [:)]

LanceHughes -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 4:06:21 PM)
Wet hair in bed (i.e. overnite) means a cold in the morning. Not really a superstiton (like black cat or ladder or broken mirror), but: Grandpa (born 1893) would often say "The whiter your bread, the sooner you're dead," and "The more sugar you soak, the sooner you'll croak." BUT these were sayings from a [not totally] crack-pot diet of the Depression Era. My mom relates that the principal tenet was to not mix protein and starch at the same meal. This led to "Starch Nite" which was plain spaghetti, dark rye and boiled potatoes. Vegetables such as corn were not starch, even though high in starch. At a resturant, he'd ask that potato be replaced by a 2nd vegetable. He'd ALWAYS have tea and always honey. Must've had some effect - lived until 92 years old. Oh, and along those old wive's tales kinda things..... Males "get" their hair from their maternal grandfathers - yep I've got a good head-o-hair at 61... so did he.

DesFIP -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 6:11:06 PM)
I don't know a well digger who doesn't dowse. Mine did, he hit water at under 30' but that shallow means it will get contaminated so we had him keep digging. 13 gallons a minute at about 125'. And it's a pounded well which is considered superior, though I have no idea what the difference is or why.

TreasureKY -> RE: BEWARE FAN DEATH! (5/31/2011 6:34:39 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: LanceHughes Wet hair in bed (i.e. overnite) means a cold in the morning. Yep... I heard that one, too. I never did understand the difference, though... it was not okay to just go to bed with wet hair, but somehow it was magically alright if your wet hair was set in rollers. [&:] I've got it! Rollers are a protection from colds! [:D]

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