[lit-ideas] God bless you

I can't find the message now.  In case nobody's answered it, the reason we say 
"God bless you" after a sneeze is because it was once thought that sneezing 
expelled all the life force, i.e. breath, out of the body.  That created a 
vacuum for the devil to sneak in, so someone had to quick say God bless you to 
keep the devil out.  But you all knew that.

Most traditions are probably this silly.


Andy Amago
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