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    Bring luck or bad luck, predict your future or your death. Through the ages these superstitions have persisted. Slavic customs. ...
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    Wishing Death
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    Author: * Erina Niall - 3 Posts on this thread out of 253 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Sep 22, 2004 - 19:26

    A custom for the slavics when they wished death upon someone was to be bald and wearing only their undergarment. The person wishing death would circle the property of his or her victim's yard with a burning candle. After one complete circle, the candle was broken in two and turned upside-down.

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