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In this activity we learned a lot about Shakespearean and Elizabethan times that we didn't know before. We learned about superstitions that we incorporate into daily life now that originated from Shakespearean times. It also taught us a lot about supernatural beliefs then, like witches and the reason why our society says "bless you"  after someone has sneezed. It was interesting to be able to connect things we do today to superstitions that originated hundreds of years ago.

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Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press)

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Shakespeare and the Supernatural | Michael Dobson

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1. There is a superstition that saying the name of Shakespeare’s play ‘Macbeth’ before a play can cause bad luck for the performance, as can quoting lines from the play, especially the witches incantations. It is referred to as “The Scottish Play” instead.

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1.  Many superstitions we know now come from Elizabeth times one is not to walk under ladders they are bad luck as they are linked to gallows`'

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1. To say bless you is another superstition from Shakespeare’s time, they said it so that the devil wouldn’t enter that person’s body after they sneeze.

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1. Salt was another, spilling it was bad luck as it was a very expensive seasoning then.

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1. King James l was particularly superstitious about witches and Shakespeare actually wrote Macbeth for him. A story about witches in Scotland, where the king was ruling and the three witches manipulate everything into disaster.

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1. Black cats were another superstition in Shakespearean time that we have today, they were bad luck because they were associated with witches which everyone thought to be real.

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1. There are superstitions they had in Shakespearean times that  didn’t carry over to today however, such as good luck if you touch a condemned man.

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1. Another is if you started to lose hair then, it would be a sign of bad luck.

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1. They believed witches could fly as an explanation for how they could move such long distances, and broomsticks were later added to this belief as they became common household objects for women.

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1.  They also believed that “the seventh son of a seventh son” was believed to possess supernatural abilities.