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Thunder and Lightening

TheCatWoman

I love a good storm, but I know many people are terrified, there are so many folk beliefs about them. The ones I've heard are:, turning mirrors to face the wall, (why I dont' know)? Opening the front and back doors so as any energy balls can exit, turning off and unplugging anything electric, especially the tv, this I can understand as surge protectors wern't as good or as common as now and TV arials were often the highest point in a house. My friends Gran used to hide in the cupboard under the stairs until it was allover as she was so scared.

My Gran told my Dad it was just God moving his furniture about, I guess that was to stop him being scared.

Has anyone else ever seen ball lightening? It's a weird thing to see, a bright ball flying across the sky from one cloud to another, quite distinct from normal sheet lightening and it explodes with a hell of a bang like an explosion. It was only scientifucally confirmed as being real in the late !980's, so I guess some scientist actually saw it and couldn't say ever body who had seen it was a superstitious liar. It's thought that it accounts for many dragon stories, as it's often firey in colour rather than blue/white, it was also thought to be an omen of change for centuries.

I've seen forked lightening coming in across the sea, the storm looked like it was walking. No wonder there are so many legends, stories and superstitions about storms.

Any one got any more folk beliefs to add?

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  • I vaguely remember being told thunder was furniture being moved, but I can’t recall who was doing the moving. 

    I haven’t any other thunder related folk belief tales to add, though thunder does bring to mind Zeus, the ancient Greek King of the Gods and God of Thunder, lightening, hail, rain and other things. Zeus deposed his father Cronus, and with lots drawn from a helmet, he divided the world between himself and his two brothers, ending up with the sky. 

    Perhaps the forked lightening was one of his thunderbolts! 

  • in reply to White_Dragon

    I think theres quite a lot of linkage between between the deities of the ancient middle east and more historical ones, I read a book on the links between Scandinavian beliefs and Mespotamian beliefs. I'll try and dig it up and tell you what it was.

    As well as thunder gods theres also similarities with the Goddess being the sun and the God the moon and with Goddesses being drawn in carriages pulled by cats.

  • in reply to ArchaeC

    ArchaeC, I think part fo the fascination for me about researching this lesser known path, is that we can look at the archaeology, what are the similarities in material culture, iconography, what and where were the trade links? Then we get onto the gentetics, can we see genetic similarities between early Northern Europeans and those from the Middle East? Could ancient Sumarian beliefs come as part of a Neolithic package? We know farming and domesticated animals did, it would seem a lot of people came north and west too, it would seem very strange if they had left thier inner culture behind and just brought thier material culture with them. There's anohter book I have which might interest you as it sheds light on pre-historic Scandinavia and that's, The Children of Ash and Elm, A history of the Vikings. by Neil Price, agains mines an ebook on my kindle, but it's available in hard copy, maybe you could get it from your local library?

    I think the Nephilim by thier very nature undermine a lot of the OT and ask to many questions of it that are to uncomfortable to answer, leaving the field open to conspiracy theorists. One fo the Best books I've read on it is  From the Ashes of Angles, by Andrew Collins, it's still pretty out there, but not as far as some.

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  • in reply to ArchaeC

    ArchaeC, I think part fo the fascination for me about researching this lesser known path, is that we can look at the archaeology, what are the similarities in material culture, iconography, what and where were the trade links? Then we get onto the gentetics, can we see genetic similarities between early Northern Europeans and those from the Middle East? Could ancient Sumarian beliefs come as part of a Neolithic package? We know farming and domesticated animals did, it would seem a lot of people came north and west too, it would seem very strange if they had left thier inner culture behind and just brought thier material culture with them. There's anohter book I have which might interest you as it sheds light on pre-historic Scandinavia and that's, The Children of Ash and Elm, A history of the Vikings. by Neil Price, agains mines an ebook on my kindle, but it's available in hard copy, maybe you could get it from your local library?

    I think the Nephilim by thier very nature undermine a lot of the OT and ask to many questions of it that are to uncomfortable to answer, leaving the field open to conspiracy theorists. One fo the Best books I've read on it is  From the Ashes of Angles, by Andrew Collins, it's still pretty out there, but not as far as some.

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