“Bless
You”
Whenever someone
sneezes, you say “Bless You” or hear someone else say these words.
Why?
Why are these words spoken?
It’s used to
wish a person blessings in various situations especially as a response to a
sneeze and also when parting or writing a valediction.
When?
When did this saying originate?
By the AD
590 as an outbreak of the bubonic plague was reaching Rome.
How?
How did this saying originate?
At the time
sneezing was thought to an early symptom of the plague. The blessing became a
common effort to halt the disease. Some have offered an explanation suggesting
that people once held the folk belief that a person’s soul could be thrown from
their body when they sneezed, that sneezing otherwise opened the body to
invasion by the devil or evil spirits, or that sneezing was the body’s effort
to force out an invading evil presence. In cases, “god bless you or bless you
is used as a sort of shield against evil.
Where?
Where did this saying originate?
This
happened in Rome during the plague was occurring.
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