Re: Three fingers

From: Rick McCallister
Message: 67389
Date: 2011-04-25




From: Torsten <tgpedersen@...>
To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, April 25, 2011 12:21:03 PM
Subject: [tied] Re: Three fingers

 



--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Alexandru Moeller <alxmoeller@...> wrote:
>
> Am 25.04.2011 14:58, schrieb Torsten:
> > 'exclusively used by ethnic Serbs'
> >
> > > This means ... nothing.
> >
> > You ... don't know that.
> >
> > > Orthodox Christians hold their fingers this way:
> >
> > No, Serbs do that. Greeks don't. Russians don't.
> >
>
> I am not sure if this is one and the same as the Serbian do but
> indeed when making the sign of the cross, the Romanians do the same.
> That is, they put together the 3 fingers and with them "bound" that
> way they make 3 times the "cross".

Hm. What do you do when you are on vacation in Dubrovnik? Isn't it kind of dangerous?

More to the point: Does anyone who can't suspected of being a descendant of Sabazios-worshipping Thracians do it?

Torsten

My best friend is a Serb who was born in Krajina but grew up in Nish, he goes to Dubrovnik a lot and says he has no problems.

Maybe the three fingers refers to 3 fingers of slivovic