Published on 12, July, 2020
Anyone else get mildly irritated when people say "Bless you!" after you sneeze?
For me, it's "Great! Not only was I interrupted by having to sneeze, now you've added the obligation to say 'Thank you' to my troubles!". Also, can we drop the ritualised superstition given that the year starts with a 20?
the "bless you" stems from the middle ages belief that when you sneezed you were vunerable to the devil entering you and as with many sayings its just become common although to be honest i haven't heard it said in a long time since modern society is falling out of favour with religion
Really? I thought the obligation to say ‘bless you’ when someone sneezes started during the plague when if someone sneezed they probably had caught the plague so you said ‘bless you’ to them as they were going to die shortly.