Wish upon a star

Most of us are famillar with the idea of making a wish upon a falling star. But where did that idea first derive from? How did we come to associate falling stars with wishmaking? Well it may frighten some people to know, that every time they wished upon a falling star, they were casting a form of an old Pagan spell.

The idea of wishing upon falling stars came from the old tradidtional branch of Tuscan Witchcraft which was passed down to them from the mysterious and ancient Etruscans. They had a strong beleive in incoraptating natural objects and occurances into magick. And one of the things they belived as that when you saw a falling star, or a fruti falling from a branch, you should link that falling motion with a spell.

For example, they would upona falling start wish for someone to fall in love, or fan an ememy to "fall" and it is from this belief that we came to assocaite falling stars with wish making.

10:04 AM - 7/30/2007 - post comment

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