Comments on The Raucous Royals: The Royal Talisman

For you Napoleon & Josephine fans...the quest is t...

2010-01-20T19:14:59.301-08:00

For you Napoleon & Josephine fans...the quest is to locate some information about Napoleon's Talisman of the Crystal Sphinx. Can ANYONE find some writings from historic records of this?

http://napoleonssphinx.blogspot.com/

It's funny to hear everyone's superstitions becaus...

2009-06-25T08:19:30.916-07:00

It's funny to hear everyone's superstitions because I am soooo superstitious. I still knock on wood and I have several lucky amulets that I travel with.

Linda - I have not read Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series but I love Thor's Hammer amulets and wish I had one.

Ms. Lucy- I still never go anywhere without my cross.

Sara- That is really sad about black cats not being adopted. I am not that bad...I would own a black cat.

LadyAugstaFredrika – Have you heard of transference? That is the belief that you can transfer the illness onto another object. There is a whole list of funny ones listed on http://www.folkmed.ucla.edu/. Can you imagine wrapping a dried frog around your little one’s throat to cure a sore throat. Ick!

Anne Sophie - someone logical to knock some sense into me! But I still can't help being superstitious.

Shako...North of Italy? uh oh. You are not supposed to like Napoleon. :)

Amy – I am Italian-Irish too so I have always worn Trinity knot jewelry but my Italian side makes me deathly afraid of the dreaded evil eye.

I'm Italian-Irish, so superstition flows freely th...

2009-06-24T19:16:13.542-07:00

I'm Italian-Irish, so superstition flows freely through my veins. I never, never, never used to leave my house without my Trinity knot necklace. When it was stolen by an ex boyfriend who promptly "lost" it, I got a Trinity knot tattooed on my arm so I would "never leave home without it." I sewed a Trinity knot onto my daughter's baby blanket, own Trinity knot earrings, rings and a brand new necklace. My husband snickers at me--but he wears the same outfit every Sunday during football seasons so his beloved Philadelphia Eagles won't lose.

I am mad...I love Napoleon too much! I go out some...

2009-06-23T10:58:10.830-07:00

I am mad...I love Napoleon too much! I go out somewhere and I take like this little wooden soldier for luck. Then when I'm away for a long time I take de Napoleon's Side in Russia to remind me not to complain on behalf of my parents...for everyday things I wear a necklace with a jewel of sorts and a gray pearl on it...And when I feel stressed I get my compass out and scratch my name onto something. I read the Cronicles of Ancient Darkness and they are a favourite besides Napoleon, and I must eat everything on me plate and not waste it because it isn't right...
But otherwise, I'm totally OK!
And hullo to Ms. Lucy! Greetings from the North of Italy, my kinsplace!

I have lucky underwear that I've used for all my f...

2009-06-20T06:39:43.039-07:00

I have lucky underwear that I've used for all my final exams at university. (Of course: after each exam I washed it!). I never failed an exam.

Thanks for the post, interesting as always! I'm a...

2009-06-19T21:12:32.645-07:00

Thanks for the post, interesting as always!

I'm a little bit superstitious, but it do not rule my life, and I don't have an amulet or something like that.

I actually recognizes this:
"To cure toothache, people often carried a tooth-shaped stone or animal tooth. These amulets cured tooth ache by transferring the disease from your tooth onto the stone."
I've heard stories about the deeds of wise men - and women back in the old times Sweden (maybe this ritual existed elsewere as well, but that's out of my knowlege). They belived that the toothache could be cured by saying some magical words, which transfered the pain into a nail, and afterwards they took the nail outside to hammer it into a tree. Voilà! No worries anymore, because the tree got all your toothache instead of you. Clever eh?

No i'm not supertsticious anymore, thanks to all o...

2009-06-19T08:48:45.991-07:00

No i'm not supertsticious anymore, thanks to all of my classes at school (i'm studying psychology! That's called magical thinking.
Amulets don't work really but they do give people peace of mind.

Great post btw! :D

I'm not superstitious at all- There are so many of...

2009-06-19T06:59:39.021-07:00

I'm not superstitious at all- There are so many of them, and half of one culture's superstitions contradict the other culture's...it seems like something that would add stress rather than take it away.

At the local SPCA they had ad special on adopting black cats- only 10$! The lady said that no one wanted them because people think they're bad luck. That's just sad!

Well, I don't think I'm superstitious- but then I ...

2009-06-18T18:36:17.499-07:00

Well, I don't think I'm superstitious- but then I am of Italian origin...so growing up we usually always wore certain charms around our gold chains; either a little gold horn, a dolphin- and absolutely our cross. My hubby is of Greek origin and they usually like to wear the blue eye (to ward off the evil eye). Nowadays I don't think it's really for superstitious reasons but just cause we're so used to it?..

Not a real unicorn horn? Shocking. Eww, that po...

2009-06-18T13:16:31.893-07:00

Not a real unicorn horn? Shocking.

Eww, that poor mole.

Linda, to answer you, a fan. A superstitious fan. :)

If someone had asked me a year ago if I were super...

2009-06-18T09:01:04.203-07:00

If someone had asked me a year ago if I were superstitious, I would have answered NO. However, after reading Bernard Cornwell's Saxon series, I asked for and received a Thor's Hammer amulet necklace for Christmas. I love it, and wear it, every time I drive more than a block or so away from home. As I merge with traffic on the interstate, I always reach for it and give it a slight rub. I don't really think it brings me luck, but it does bring me a bit of comfort. Does this make me superstitious? or does it just paint me as a real fan of Cornwell's Uhtred??