Tuesday, March the 16th, 2004
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“It is bad luck to carry a spade through a house … It is bad luck to travel with a priest; this idea seems to me of Spanish importation; and I am inclined to attribute a similar origin to the strange tropical superstition about the banana, which I obtained, nevertheless, from an Italian. You must not cut a banana, but simply break it with the fingers, because in cutting it you cut the cross. It does not require a very powerful imagination to discern in a severed section of the fruit the ghostly suggestion of a crucifixion.” — Lafcadio Hearn, New Orleans Superstitions
Hooting Yard on the Air, December the 14th, 2005 : “Some Hotels, a Hollyhock, the Ponds” (starts around 29:10)