Did you know that #Germans have a LOT of #superstitions about #bread?
In the olden days, when bread was baked at home, bad luck would seep into the bread when one cursed while baking.
And if the loaf would be placed over the table's edge, sickness would soon enter the house.
A loaf placed upside down would sway, because the poor souls would try to turn it, & if the head of the house cut the bread crookedly, then he had just lied...
#mythology #tradition #Germany
Fionnáin
in reply to mythologyandhistory • • •wow! I love this.
There are also bread stories in Ireland. If your yeast fails to make your bread rise, you've angered the good folk so they are making it fail. You can offer them bread (leave some outside, with plenty extra for the birds and mice). It has never failed me.
mythologyandhistory
in reply to Fionnáin • • •@ephemeral
But if your bread fails... you can't offer bread! Recursive bad luck?!
Thanks for the neat comment!
Fionnáin
in reply to mythologyandhistory • • •haha yeah that's the catch 😀
But no, you can make a soda bread (a traditional unyeasted bread) or offer the bread that failed to rise, but who knows what they'll think of that?
mythologyandhistory
in reply to Fionnáin • • •@ephemeral
OK, I'm glad the Irish aren't doomed!
I'd love some soda bread