Hi.
My culture has a gazillion *old wives tales*. Superstitions and tales. Or are they?
There is one that fascinated me.
If a person has had traumatic news or been badly scared the belief is they will suddenly fall to the ground, go to *sleep* (coma) or die because the trauma or scare makes their soul leave their body.
To avoid this, the person is given a spoonful of sugar in three steps. Get a glass of water, a spoonful of sugar and have them take three sips of the sugar. But the sugar is administered in the following manner: "In the name of the Father *sip sugar*, the Son *sip sugar* and the Holy Spirit *sip sugar*. Ta da! No coma or death.
I did some research. A lot of Hispanics suffer from undiagnosed diabetes. If a person with diabetes experiences something traumatic their sugar can drop to dangerous levels thus the coma or death. By giving sugar in small increments diabetic coma or or death can be averted. Yay!
My people had the *superstitious* belief of the soul leaving the body but there old wives tale remedy worked.
One more, please.
When children complain of nightmares and resist going to sleep because of the nightmares the belief is there are evil spirits about waiting for the child to go to sleep to harm them.
What we do:
Tell the child we are going to sweep the nightmares away. We move their bed and sweep under the bed and take away whatever is under there (dust, dust bunnies) while praying the Our Father out loud. We then position the broom on the floor where the child's head on the pillow would be. Put the bed back into position and again, ta da! No nightmares. (I think this one is pure psychology-power of suggestion.)
Thank you for your time and patience reading this long description.
Do you have any old wives tales? Do you have any *remedies*?
Peace.
My culture has a gazillion *old wives tales*. Superstitions and tales. Or are they?
There is one that fascinated me.
If a person has had traumatic news or been badly scared the belief is they will suddenly fall to the ground, go to *sleep* (coma) or die because the trauma or scare makes their soul leave their body.
To avoid this, the person is given a spoonful of sugar in three steps. Get a glass of water, a spoonful of sugar and have them take three sips of the sugar. But the sugar is administered in the following manner: "In the name of the Father *sip sugar*, the Son *sip sugar* and the Holy Spirit *sip sugar*. Ta da! No coma or death.
I did some research. A lot of Hispanics suffer from undiagnosed diabetes. If a person with diabetes experiences something traumatic their sugar can drop to dangerous levels thus the coma or death. By giving sugar in small increments diabetic coma or or death can be averted. Yay!
My people had the *superstitious* belief of the soul leaving the body but there old wives tale remedy worked.
One more, please.
When children complain of nightmares and resist going to sleep because of the nightmares the belief is there are evil spirits about waiting for the child to go to sleep to harm them.
What we do:
Tell the child we are going to sweep the nightmares away. We move their bed and sweep under the bed and take away whatever is under there (dust, dust bunnies) while praying the Our Father out loud. We then position the broom on the floor where the child's head on the pillow would be. Put the bed back into position and again, ta da! No nightmares. (I think this one is pure psychology-power of suggestion.)
Thank you for your time and patience reading this long description.
Do you have any old wives tales? Do you have any *remedies*?
Peace.
