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Originally Posted By: Faldage


I'm not sure what part of this you asking if it's a standard saying......


the bit about "Amish have what are called hex signs on their barns"..do they have one sign or do they make up a different one each time the put up a barn ie more than one HEX Sign?

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A boon can be good and bad, I think. King whatsisname touched stuff to become gold. That was good and bad, a blessing and a curse.
Eta:Midas

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Candy– Again, NOT Amish, but there's no standard design, it's infinitely variable. That's the fun and the beauty of them.

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Interestingly, the Amish did not adopt the custom of decorating their barns, and do not use hex signs to this day.

Neat article:
Amish News

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A most interesting site to purchase Amish items.
Thanks Jackie.


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Originally Posted By: Jackie


Neat article:
Amish News


Good read....thanks.

I guess the idea of a hex on the Amish barn was propagated by TV... becoming an 'Urban Myth'

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Originally Posted By: Tromboniator
Candy– Again, NOT Amish.....


got it now Peter.

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And certain movies, I did not understand either.
Thanks Peter.


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Maybe abracadabra ?

"This, he explained, diminishes the hold of the spirit of the disease over the patient. Other Roman emperors, including Geta and Alexander Severus, were followers of the medical teachings of Serenus Sammonicus and are likely to have used the incantation as well.

Some scholars have argued that the incantation has its source in the Jewish mystical teachings of the Kabbalah, and that the word itself is a corruption of two Hebrew words: ha-brachah, meaning "the blessing" (used in this sense as a euphemism for "the curse") and dabra, an Aramaic form of the Hebrew word dever, meaning "pestilence." They point to a similar kabbalistic cure for blindness, in which the name of Shabriri, the demon of blindness, is similarly diminished. Other scholars are skeptical of this origin and claim that the idea of diminishing the power of demons was common throughout the ancient world, and that Abracadabra was simply the name of one such demon."

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Most interesting, as are the other sites.

Thanks and welcome garygnu


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