{"id":866,"date":"2006-05-24T22:22:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T03:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=866"},"modified":"2006-05-24T22:22:05","modified_gmt":"2006-05-25T03:22:05","slug":"superstitious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=866","title":{"rendered":"superstitious"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cue Stevie Wonder<\/em><\/p>\n

Freddie<\/a> is talking about superstitions and their effect on her life.<\/p>\n

As a child of romanian\/hungarian\/german extraction, whose grandparents I clearly remember, I witnessed my own share of superstitions. And saw things that can’t be explained by science, saw them with my own eyes. <\/p>\n

I saw my gramma stop the bleeding of an open blood vessel on my dad’s leg, by praying and nothing else.<\/p>\n

I saw my uncle get a burn on his hand that went to the bone, and saw my aunt do something to it, and the burn healed without even a scar.<\/p>\n

I saw my grandfather call down lightning from a clear sky. Saw it hit a tree and split the tree from tip to root. <\/p>\n

My dad picked a dog from a litter (a peke\/toy manchester mutt we called Lucky) and called it a “wart dog”. THe dog would lick a wart on your hand or arm, and in a couple days, it would be gone. Without a trace. People would come by the house to have warts licked by this dog. <\/p>\n

I asked about these things, wondered how these family members knew how to do these things. I never got any good answers. <\/p>\n

I’m not without some of those skills. I can dowse, and more than once I’ve helped someone pinpoint the location of a septic tank or water line. I can split cordwood cleaner than anyone i know because I can read woodgrain. I have a feel for mechanical things like few people I know. <\/p>\n

Superstitions? faith healing? no idea. What I do have, is the belief that there are things we don’t understand- yet- but I also know that when the answer to those things is found, it will be perfectly scientific.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cue Stevie Wonder Freddie is talking about superstitions and their effect on her life. As a child of romanian\/hungarian\/german extraction, whose grandparents I clearly remember, I witnessed my own share of superstitions. And saw things that can’t be explained by science, saw them with my own eyes. I saw my gramma stop the bleeding of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}