Im pretty sure Id like talking to bees more than I like talking to most people. Isnt this an interesting idea? Heres an old but interesting superstition involving bees and their keepers, a practice referred to as telling the bees. This folklore was practiced in America during the 19th century, but most likely had European roots.1 Its name is fairly self-explanatory: when a member of a beekeeping family dies, someone must inform the hive of the news. (Bees were also told of other significant events in the household-marriages, moving, etc.) The consequences of not observing the superstition were the deaths of all of the bees or the abandonment of the hive. Bees were a valuable commodity to those who tended them, so naturally people wanted to protect their hives.
Posted on: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 01:20:19 +0000
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