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Bless you , or God bless you , is a common English expression addressed to a person after they sneeze. The origin of the custom and its original purpose are unknown. Several possible origins are co...
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A sneeze (or sternutation ) is a semi-autonomous, convulsive expulsion of air from the lungs through the nose and mouth, caused by foreign particles irritating the nasal mucosa. Sneezing can be tr...
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The custom of saying "God bless you" after a sneeze was begun literally as a blessing. Pope Gregory the Great (540-604 AD) ascended to the Papacy just in time for the start of the plague (his successor succumbed to it). ... The connection of sneezing to the plague is not the first association of sneezing with death.
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Why do we say 'bless you' after a sneeze? ... In many English-speaking countries, the German equivalent, gesundheit (which means "good health"), is used after sneezing or coughing. Gesundheit is also used in Australia. It was imported to South Australia through the Evangelical Lutheran refugees who fled the...
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Europeans mandate saying "Bless you" after sneezing to ward off demons Media, activists lambaste governments for 'ignoring this for too long ... "There is no evidence whatsoever that saying 'Bless you' makes any difference, let alone this claptrap about demons. But they worked themselves into a frenzy and ignored all the...
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Claim: The origin of saying "Bless you!" (As silly as this may sound now, sneezing was at one long-ago time seen as a fortuitous portent.) ; ... although the practice is old enough for mention of it to surface in ancient writings (the earliest from 77 A.D., the generation right after Christ), no one apparently deemed it...
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Some Catholics attribute to St. Gregory the use of the benediction “God bless you,” after sneezing, and say that he enjoined its use during a pestilence in which sneezing was a mortal symptom, and was therefore called the death-sneeze.
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I've heard a wives tale that one says "Bless You" after a sneeze because the heart supposably stops and re-starts... Is there any biological justification for this? Thanks!
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