Re: [tied] Re: Knock on wood

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Glen:

>>aah, I think I know where all this is coming from. I propose
>> that the use of these objects (iron, wood, needle, etc) relates
>> to the “World Object“ whatever it may be (World Tree, World Pin,
>> World Mountain).
>
>Survivals/mincings of an original “to piously touch/knock on the
>wooden idol“? Analogous to what certain Catholics do with the sign of
>the cross (and other things I've never understood) to avert bad luck?
>
>

For what it's worth, here's my personal 'rationalisation', heavily influenced by modern technology perhaps, but a very real psychological sensation. I conceive of the action as in some way 'earthing' myself, and thus disipating the bad luck [in its AngloAmerican manifestation!]. There is also the understanding that wood is in some way a good honest sort of a substance, perhaps in a way that metal, and certainly not plastic, could ever be.


Beinn Mac an Gheairr

>Vae victis.

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