Jewish Superstition:
“Jews believe that if you name a baby after a loving family member, the living family member will die. It’s very bad luck because words hold a lot of power in Judaism. So do names.”
-Madison heard this from her parents.
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The Bank Joke
A joke overheard in the US Airforce:
A surly looking man walks into a bank. He walks up to the employee at the window and says
“I want to open a fucking account.”
She responds: “Excuse me?”
“You didn’t hear me, bitch?”
Then the woman left and got the manager.
The manager came up and addressed the man:
“Can I help you, sir?”
“I want open an account. I have 10 million dollars.”
The managers eyes widened and then he replied:
“And what? This fucking bitch wouldn’t help you?”
I enjoyed the joke because it exemplified the greed of man.
The Pet Funeral Joke
US Airforce Joke
“A man walks up to a cemetery, he asks a priest if he can bury his dog in the cemetery. The priest says no, that only people were to be buried in the cemetery because they have souls and dogs do not. The man begged, please, he said. The priest refused. The man said fine, he would just take his 20,000 dollars and try another cemetery.”
The priest paused.
“Wait a minute,” the priest said. “Is your dog catholic?”
Another joke about greediness, and the shedding of morality in favor of money.
Lovers’ Leap
SCOTT COUNTY, VA- “Before Europeans settled in Virginia,there was a Shawnee brave and Cherokee girl who met in the forest. There rising tensions between their two tribes, this was like a version of Romeo and Juliet. They fell in love with each other on sight and they met in secret for awhile. A member of one of their tribes spotted them one day and ratted her out to the tribe. The girl was forbidden from seeing her love. The man continued to return to their spot because every time, he thought she would be there. One day, she did turn up but she was standing next to the edge of the cliff. She told him that they could never see each other again. They didn’t want their relationship to end, they kissed, and jumped off of the cliff together, hand in hand. People say that they’ve seen the couple on the edge of the cliff, they say that the couple kisses and then jumps off the edge.”
-Savannah Hemmig heard this local Virginia legend from her friends.
I found this piece very interesting because I’ve heard many variations of this tale, versions where they meet in a crystal cave, or a meadow. Many of them add a kind of romantic significance to a spot of nature or a historic landmark.
The Byrd Theater
“This one really shook me up because I love that theater. The story goes, that the Byrd theater’s first manager for like forty years and when he died, people say that they saw him sitting in the highest balcony. They say he still sits there because he was so devoted to the theater he never left.”
-Savannah Hemmig, heard this from a Drama Teacher