Journal Entry
#22
July 24, 2007
Page 104 paragraph 3
When someone sneezes, the people of this village say "Life to you". I thought that was interesting because in India they say "someone is thinking of you", and in America we say "Bless you". The superstition of sneezing for the United States was that either there was an evil spirit around, or you were sneezing out something bad, so people said bess you as kind of like may God be with you and hopefully the devil won't take over your body. So I'm guessing that at each place that you go they will have a different saying for when you sneeze.
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