Re: Misinterpretation...  1.
  By: Anton Shepelev to Ardith Hinton on Wed Apr 29 2020 12:32:48


 AK>>>  Do you spit over your left shoulder? ;)

 AH>> Sounds like quite a feat... I'm not sure I could pull that off.

 AS> I think you misunderstand the instrction. The task is to hit the
 AS> invisible devil that ever sittenth on thy left shoulder. It seems
 AS> sufficient, for the purpose, to spit to the left and just a tad
 AS> backwards -- in the eight o'clock direction.


i don't think she misunderstood it ;)


  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spilling_salt

A superstition in Western cultures holds that spilling salt is an evil omen.
[...]
The most common contemporary belief requires you to toss a pinch of the spilt
salt over your left shoulder, into the face of the Devil who lurks there.



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