why do people say "bless you" when someone sneezes?!
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If your heart stops your dead or in cardiac-arrest, plain and simple. Sneezes increase the pressure in your chest and change blood flow, causing the heart to "flutter" a little bit. When u sneeze your heart doesnt stop or pause or anything, it may speed up, but stopin is a negative.
The "bless you" thing came from the plague, when people sneezed it was a sign of the plague. They said "bless you" so that incase that u didnt make it, you would still go to heaven after u bit the dust.
Final Answer: Hearts dont stop from sneezing. "Bless you" is said from the days of the plague.
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It was believed that sneezing was a body's reaction to attempt to expel an evil spirit.
Bystanders would say "Bless you" hoping to prevent the spirit from gaining re-entry.
Because sneezes were one of the first symptoms of the Black Plague, so anyone caught sneezing was assumed to soon be dead. Blessing one prior to death is generally preferable than after the fact.
we were taught in school that it came from the plague. When someone sneezed people thought they had the plague so they said God Bless You so that they would go to heaven.
It's polite to say.
it used to be god bless you but some people found that offensive so now its just bless you becasue when you sneeze your heart stops for a split second and they say bless you because its supposed to make sure it starts up again.
when you sneeze,ur heart stops for a second or two.n therefore ppl say bless you ..its even said wen sneeze so many cells in ur brain die..
your heart stops for a second, so techinically your dead for a sec. another instance, when you yawn, you cover your mouth so the evil spirits won't come in. This all idology comes for the days of burning witches.
Every time a person sneezes, he/she skips a heart beat. Therefore people say "bless you" because he/she didn't die.
When you sneeze, your heart stops for that second. Heart stopping is associated with death, so we say bless you for that reason. Personally, I think it's a superstition, and as such, shouldn't be said.
Prior to the Enlightenment period, it was believed aberrant behavior was caused by evil spirits. When a person sneezed, bystanders reacted by saying "Bless you" and telling you to quickly "cover your mouth" so the evil spirit could not reenter.
The belief of evil spirits inhabiting the mind also led to the practice of trephination, where a practitioner would bore holes in a patient's skull to allow the spirits to escape.
My sense is that it comes from a Western/Christian part-pagan belief that when you sneeze, your body's integrity is broken: usually you are a closed body, with walls, but sneezing opens up spaces of entry and endangers you from small devils or sprites that might leap into you while you are undefended. Therefore, one says "bless you" to insert God's (or the gods') blessing between you and any roving devils so that they cannot "get at you."
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hearsay; reading in folklore
An Angel gets it's wings everytime you sneeze..
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