To touch wood
To touch wood is a gesture that they make for it bring good luck, to avert a fate.
This gesture is assumed allow to grant its wishes of health, of benefit in Lottery, to pass an exam. . . For it nothing to complicate well with touch of the wood, if there is not one can always touch has head
To know the signification of this superstition it is necessary to go back up in very far: Antique.
The Perses practiced the Mazdéime, religion in which the fact of touch of the wood allowed to put on under the protective power of Atar, the genius of the fire.
For the Egyptians the wood broadcast a form of advantageous magnetism.
Then in the Middle Ages, the Christians to touch some wood was a form of plea or of request which allowed to protect itself from the adversity which came from the cross of sacrificed Christ.
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To touch wood
To touch wood is a gesture that people make to bring good luck, to avert problems.
This gesture is assumed to bring good health, good luck in the Lottery or help with passing exams. . . There is nothing too complicate for touching wood, if there is no wood, one can always touch his head.
To know the signification of this superstition it is necessary to go back to antiquity.
The Persians practiced the Mazdéime, religion in which the act of touching wood allowed one to be put under the protective power of Atar, the god of fire.
For the Egyptians, wood broadcast a form of advantageous magnetism.
Then in the Middle Ages, the Christians touched wooda form of plea or of request which allowed to protect itself from the adversity which came from the crucifixion of Christ.
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