Did the moon cut your ear?
by wanphing
As a child, I was told many superstitious lies to make sure I didn’t do anything stupid. Then I realised this was a common phenomenon among Asian parents.
One of these lies is that the moon will cut your ear if you point at it. Well, did it cut yours? I was 8 years old when my father told me it happened to him as a child. That night, there was a bright crescent moon shining outside my window. I decided to brave it.
I remember that night vividly. I was sitting up in my bed in my pyjamas, a pair of floral flannels, hugging my little pillow tightly. I raised my hand slowly and looked away, my face twisted in anticipation of a painful slit. But nothing happened. Quietly, I slumped back into bed and went to sleep. No nightmares, no fat horror moonface speaking into my ears.
The next morning I woke up and the first thing I did was check the back of my ear. I checked for signs of dried blood, any form of scab or scar, a slit, anything that proved my ear had been cut by the evil crescent moon.
Lies, all lies. I never trusted one of these superstitions ever again.
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Yet there are those that really did experience this moon cutting the ear belief....
Can it be that there are beliefs we believe in so much subconsciously that we will them into reality?
What about Stigmata?
A case of mind over matter? For instance, there are hypochondriacs who believe they are sickly, so much so that their thinking indeed makes them less immune to sicknesses. The body responds to what the mind thinks. As a child, he could have willed the cut into existence himself through the power of belief. That could explain why the cut appeared......
What do you think?
by wanphing
As a child, I was told many superstitious lies to make sure I didn’t do anything stupid. Then I realised this was a common phenomenon among Asian parents.
One of these lies is that the moon will cut your ear if you point at it. Well, did it cut yours? I was 8 years old when my father told me it happened to him as a child. That night, there was a bright crescent moon shining outside my window. I decided to brave it.
I remember that night vividly. I was sitting up in my bed in my pyjamas, a pair of floral flannels, hugging my little pillow tightly. I raised my hand slowly and looked away, my face twisted in anticipation of a painful slit. But nothing happened. Quietly, I slumped back into bed and went to sleep. No nightmares, no fat horror moonface speaking into my ears.
The next morning I woke up and the first thing I did was check the back of my ear. I checked for signs of dried blood, any form of scab or scar, a slit, anything that proved my ear had been cut by the evil crescent moon.
Lies, all lies. I never trusted one of these superstitions ever again.
http://wanphing.com/2010/06/13/did-the-moon-cut-your-ear/
====================
Yet there are those that really did experience this moon cutting the ear belief....
Can it be that there are beliefs we believe in so much subconsciously that we will them into reality?
What about Stigmata?
A case of mind over matter? For instance, there are hypochondriacs who believe they are sickly, so much so that their thinking indeed makes them less immune to sicknesses. The body responds to what the mind thinks. As a child, he could have willed the cut into existence himself through the power of belief. That could explain why the cut appeared......
What do you think?
