Ten strange customs that are super superstitious in history
Early humans felt that the world was mysterious. They invented legends about gods and followed strange customs to explain the world. There have been countless strange and super superstitious behaviors and strange customs in human history. Here are ten.
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. In France during the Dark Ages, Charlemagne stayed on the throne for four hundred years. Charlemagne died in 814 after reigning for 45 years, but his body was mummified and sat on the royal throne until 1215. It is said that he was buried wearing full armor, waiting to one day come back to life and save the world.
Second, in Jericho around 7500 BC, people cut off the head of their dead grandfather and fixed it on the ground for worship. They filled the old man's head with clay, made up the head to make it live, and embedded shells into the eye sockets to make it look like eyeballs.
Third, in France in 4000 BC, a witch doctor would use a sharp stone to drill open the skull and release the ghost.
Fourth, in Rome in 200 BC, the boundaries of towns, villages and farmland were marked with stones. Anyone who moves the stone will be executed. The Romans worshipped the god of boundary stones-the guardian of the boundary. They decorated the boundary stones with flowers and even sacrificed pigs and sheep.
Fifth, in medieval India, whenever a baby was born, the child's oldest aunt needed to go to the temple to cut off two fingers. The carpenter would use a chisel to chop off the little finger and ring finger of her right hand.
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Sixth, in the medieval Pacific Sangui Islands, in order to prevent volcanic eruptions, the village priest brutally killed a child every year to please the volcano god.
Seventh, in China in 1300 BC, priests learned information about gods from the patterns on turtle shells. They wrote questions on the empty turtle shell, and then put red-hot iron on it to crack the turtle shell. The opening of the turtle shell is the answer to the problem. They collected the turtle shell like a book to ensure that they had answers to many questions at hand at all times.
Eighth, in Scotland in 1500, Queen Mary used unicorns to test whether her food was poisonous. Queen Mary of Scots brought the Unicorn Horn with her from France and used it throughout her 19-year prison term in England. Mary believed it could protect her, and Mary was never poisoned.
Ninth, in Germany in 1940, Adolf Hitler poured molten lead into water-a move he believed could predict the future based on the shape of the lead blocks formed. And Hitler believed in the lucky number 7. He required his generals to launch new invasions on the 7th of every month.
Tenth, the Japanese will shoot a dog with random arrows in order to change the weather. If you ask for rain, shoot a black dog. If you want a sunny day, shoot a white dog to death.