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366日すべての誕生色を調べることができます。自分の誕生色を知ってラッキーカラーにしましょう。

I think this is someones invented custom, not something well established. But my colour is a good one, so I like it.

Early Christians [...] "considered the celebration of anyone's birth to be a pagan custom."

Don't mind if I do, then. ;)

According to Turkish belief, blue acts as a shield against evil and even absorbs negativity.

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The mythology behind it says that if one of the beads breaks down, it means a very strong nazar has hit the wearer, and the bead stored it all up and broke down in order to protect them.

A third characteristic is to bead a mistake into the work. This action guards against hubris and excessive pride by affirming that only the Creator can make something that is perfect. These misplaced or miscoloured beads are often called “Spirit beads”.

Ancient DNA has overturned two centuries of assumptions about a Bronze Age burial near Stonehenge, revealing that a renowned goldworker, long believed to be a man, was a woman who may have held spiritual authority.

Articles I did not expect to have a BSDM section: this one

Articles I probably could have inferred could have a BDSM section: also this one

People will probably (possibly) assume:

• ring finger (usually left, sometimes right: engagement/wedding rings etc- well-established tradition
• pinkie (left): signet rings- less relevant in a modern context
• index (right): birthstone ring

Otherwise, as far as I can tell, have at.

Content warning for industrial scale farming & food ethics, food guilt, meat as food, and the author's wrestlings with vegetarianism.

The process of discovering you're accidentally venerating something much more Other than you thought is deeply relatable.

Because of the scarcity of water, the tagelmust is often dyed by pounding in dried indigo instead of soaking it. The dye often permanently leaches into the skin of the wearer, and because of this, the Tuareg are often referred to as the "blue men of the desert".