Anyone knows the myth about seven sisters?
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The Irish Gaelic word for sisters is 'deirfiúracha'.  I believe  'Pheathraichean' is Scottish Gaelic. \n\nNo Irish symbol has been proven to be particularly related to 'Sisters' but in more recent times Celtic knot work has had 'meanings' attributed to them, mainly by jewellers to sell their wares . \n\nOne knot, the triquetra appears on the television series Charmed, "In the show, it represents the "power of three, acting as one " which in turn represents the three sisters." \nMany Celtic deities were worshipped in a  triple aspect  and Triple Goddesses were often sisters, so any triune (3) form could be a interpreted to represent sisters. \nI have given links to sites (some jewelry) showing these symbols.
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I don't know what those sailors had smoked or drunk, but the story goes that the Manatee or Dugong were the real world phenomenon behind the mermaid legend.\n\nMaybe that's too late - Celtic myth has Selkies, shapechanging seals, and while they claim that St Brennan crossed the western sea long before Columbus did, I haven't heard about any mermaids in his travels.\n\nYou could study anthropologists' reports on merman myths, and treat them as sightings. Maybe there could be a useful map made of that...
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I didnt read this story for years, but i know i learned it in school. I might be able to look through my notes later and give you a more detailed response. Here is what i remember:\n\nI just a correction with what General wrote. The women went to a store right away to get a replacement. She did not have enough money, so she made a deal to pay it back slowly. She was indebted for many, many years. The rich lady got back the necklace right away. Years later the poor women met her, and was full of resentment. She told the lady, do you know what you did to me? The lady had no idea. When she told her all about what she did the lady couldnt believe it, she told her it was a fake.\n\nThe story has irony, the poor lady could now get the necklace back, and cash it in and be rich.\nPoint of view is also important to the story because we get to see the anguish the poor lady had. If it would be through the rich lady's eyes we would know all along that it was a fake. In this case it was a surprise.
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Yes, it's based on the Bell Witch legend in Tennesse...check out bellwitch.org
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The Goddess of fiery explosions before Hawaiin legend was \n   named Lisai, and the word meant the most confused.  The \n   legend is long and odd, goes like this.  Lisai was the last of\n   a skilled people that lived in mauai, paddled to lanakai and\n   lost their ships, so they could not return.  They found that \n   a previous inhabitant something like the Easter Island giants\n   had destroyed much of the livestock domestics like aliens \n   or uncivilized might do.  So they built new ships and then an\n   angel appeared to Lisai's friend and told her to build a great\n   fire to signal that Peace came to the island.  For she told her\n   your coming here with such great numbers reassures this is\n   a blessed heavenly place and the giants are gone and their\n   spoils are ruined, they will not return and not desecrate again.\n   The fire was a tradition something like for 2000 years on a \n   very high ledge as if signalling for even more to come from \n   other islands.  Then to honor their effort the volcano was \n    named for them, because it appeared with another angel vision\n    and replaced them on their duties.
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This is one intrepretation of the MYTH...\n\nThe ancient Greek explanation for the presence of suffering among men may not be quite as familiar to us and is the subject of a painting by Saj called Pandora's Box. Pandora, the first woman, was created to punish Prometheus, a god who championed the cause of mortal man against the wishes of Zeus, ruler of the gods. Pandora was presented to Epimetheus, brother of Prometheus, accompanied by a sealed jar, or box. Insatiable curiosity led Pandora to open the box and release a shower of misery on mankind, the apple of Prometheus's eye. Thus Pandora turned out to be the source of all evil for man, as was Eve, according to the story of original sin.
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Which story?\n\n* The story of Robert Langdon and Sophie Neveu?  They're fictional characters, the invention of the author.\n\n* The story that Jesus and Mary of Magdala were married and had children?  It seems unlikely -- although the Bible doesn't specifically say that Jesus was *not* married, (1) it would be a strange thing to omit considering that even Simon Peter's mother-in-law gets a mention, (2) none of the early church historians say anything about it in their writings, and (3) the Gnostic books that imply the possibility of romantic relationships between Jesus and MM were all written, at the earliest, 120 years after the fact.\n\n* The story of the Priory of Sion?  I think it's been fairly well established that, at the very least, Dan Brown (as well as the authors of /Holy Blood, Holy Grail/, one of his major sources ) was duped by the hoax -- see Wikipedia's entry on Pierre Plantard for more details.  Based on Brown's own statements and writings, however, I get the impression he's trying to talk out of both sides of his mouth on this one, so I'm having a hard time imagining him as an innocent victim of Plantard's ruse.
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The resilience of the cat, especially when falling from a height (and "always landing on hisfeet") has long been noted.  In the 19th century someone finally was able to PHOTOGRAPH a cat falling and observe just HOW the cat had the ability to quickly twist, making the balance adjustment it needed to land as safely as possible.\n\nBut why NINE lives (not seven or eight or ten)?  It might be from the idea that nine was a "trinity of trinities" and so symbolic of perfection or completeness. This would fit with the apparent EGYPTIAN origin of the notion.   \n\nThe specific number probably stems from Ancient Egypt, in whose religion the cat played an important role:\n\n"But why nine? Nine, a trinity of trinities, is a mystical number often invoked in religion and folklore. The cat was once revered in Egypt, and this is probably where its nine lives began. The priesthood in On - known to the Greeks as Heliopolis and now a suburb of Cairo - worshipped Atum-Ra, a sun god who gave life to the gods of air, moisture, earth and sky, who, in turn, produced Osiris, Isis, Seth and Nephthys. These gods are collectively known as the Ennead, or the Nine. Atum-Ra, who took the form of a cat for visits to the underworld, embodied nine lives in one creator."
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Did she have a sister?
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The Greeks had the Moirae, 3 sisters who "controlled the metaphorical thread of life of every mortal and immortal from birth to death, and beyond."  Apparently even the gods were afraid of them.  They were known to the Romans as the Parcae.  The Germanic Norns were similar.
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Tempting to say which one?... there were SEVEN... but in the end they kinda fizzled out with a whimper not a bang...\nbasically folks got fed up and slowly support died out.\n\nThere are loads of good sites with further info... below is just one.
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Hey kewlchic1...\n\n I've just read the short story and I enjoyed reading about the miracles of brother Gómez in the city of Lima.\n The scorpion alluded in the title is mentioned in the last miracle of the story. One day, brother Gómez is visited by a peddler who, knowing of the brother's miraculous reputation, hopes to be granted the miracle of having loads of money. Brother Gómez grants him the miracle by transforming a scorpion in his cell into a scorpion shaped jewel. The peddler uses it to pay his debts and make money. At the end, he returns the jewel to brother Gómez and he brings it to life again.\n\nHope this helps!
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7 is actually a lucky number in the US. I can;t find any definitive answers as to why 7 is a LUCKY number, but here is what I did find.\n\nWhy is seven lucky? We are not entirely certain - but we did find many special sevens : from the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World ... to seven days of the week. \n\nSeven more sevens: \n• Pythagoreans called it the perfect number, 3 and 4, the triangle and the square, the perfect figures.\n\n• Seven ancient planets - the sun was the greatest planet of the ancient seven and next to the sun, the moon, changing in all its splendour every seventh day. Seven visible planets and luminaries (Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn).\n\n• Books ...The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T E Lawrence, Enid Blyton's Secret Seven series ... Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of Highly Effective People ... Reiki and the Seven Chakras ...\n\n• Seven Deadly Sins.\n\n• The Trumpton fire brigade. (Pugh, Pugh, Barney, Magrew, Cuthburt, Dibble and Grub)\n\n• Seven Seas
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My sister works as an air stewardess in a particular airline so i get to hear lots of real-life encounters from her. The most famous urban legend in her company happened in Japan.\n\nApparently, a flight crew of 8 flew to Japan.(I've forgotten which state exactly but i think it starts with F")They were just suppose to stay in Japan for 1 night before flying back the next day.\n\nAll 8 crews were allocated a hotel room each. So on that particular night, 8 of them were playing poker inside 1 of the hotel room. Now, all rooms in this particular hotel have a human size long mirror plastered on the wall.\n\nSo the 8 were happily playing together when ALL of them watch a little boy walked out FROM the mirror, bouncing a rubber ball along the way. The boy's face was a blur as he was reportedly wearing a cap.\n\nStunned beyond words, all 8 of them pretended they have seen nothing and started leaving the room 2 by 2. They bunk in together for the rest of the night.\n\nThinking everything were behind them, all 8 woke up the next morning, preparing to resume their work. \n\nBUT each of them woke up and realised with horror that their faces were imprinted with deep bloody-looking scratches that did not hurt.\n\nWord has it that the little "boy"'s mother were not happy that none of the 8 accompanied the "boy" to play..so she did a little of her revenge...
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remember??\n\n\n13 - there were thirteen people during the Last Supper...???JUDAS ISCARIOT???\n\n\nand of course...there was this myth about 12 good witches and 1 evil witch..\n\n\n12 is a very nice magical number\n\n\nand adding one to it like curses it!!!\n\n\nfriday - because christ died on friday...\n\n\nIM AN ATHEIST!!!!!!!!!
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"In the town of Salem in 1692, eight young townswomen fell victim to "fits, outbreaks of obscene babbling, and wild partying in the local woodland." [1] The girls claimed they were bewitched by other members of the community and possessed by the devil. The initial accusers were Betty Parris and her cousin, Abigail Williams.\n\nThe first three accused were Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba. Good, orphaned as a teenager at the death of her mother (a French innkeeper), was the town beggar, noted for her strange "muttering". Osborne was a bedridden elderly woman who had gotten on the wrong side of the Puritans when she cheated her first husband's children out of their inheritance, giving it to her new husband. Tituba was the Carib Native American slave of Samuel Parris (a preacher in Salem Village); though she is very often referred to as black in modern historical and fictional interpretations of the trials, there is no evidence that she was anything but Native American."\n\nCheck out the source link, it's really interesting and explains the whole story and the possible reasons behind the behaviour of the people accusing the people of witchcraft.  At the bottom of the page is more links for more information on the salem witch trials.  Good luck!