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The exact characteristics of the very first person to walk through your door on January first supposedly locked in your household's luck for the next twelve…
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Long before festive cheer and jolly consumerism took over, the holiday season was heavily dedicated to terrifying children with grim tales of the undead…
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If someone desperately wanted an outcome, they would shove a small carved figure into the dirt upside down, essentially holding a holy icon hostage until it…
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Shedding copious tears before the vows wasn't considered an emotional breakdown; it was viewed as proactively draining all future sadness from the relationship.
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A rumor that a woman secretly ran the entire holy institution deeply terrified the patriarchal establishment. The myth was so persistent they allegedly…
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A casual head tilt was deemed entirely insufficient; society required a full, deeply exaggerated bend at the waist to properly acknowledge sacred spaces…
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