{"id":217195,"date":"2009-12-15T04:05:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-15T09:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds2.feedburner.com:\/\/c0cce89eceb93ea99e61825b3d421872"},"modified":"2009-12-15T04:05:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-15T09:05:53","slug":"what-is-the-origin-of-the-knocking-on-wood-superstition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217195","title":{"rendered":"What Is The Origin Of The Knocking On Wood Superstition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This superstition is one that seems to cause a lot of people to \u2018knock on wood\u201d or \u201ctouch wood\u201d when they voice something good that they hope will happen in the future without really knowing why.&nbsp;&nbsp;The general idea is to not \u201ctempt fate\u201d.<\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blurtit.com\/var\/question\/q\/q3\/q36\/q361\/q3618\/q3618588_1265715_938_knock_on_wood_by_iceandsnow\"\/><\/div>\n<p>One possible origin of this superstition dates back to the Pagans who believed that trees were homes of the gods.&nbsp;&nbsp;If someone wanted help or a favour they would tell their wish to a tree and then touch the bark.&nbsp;&nbsp;This was the first \u201cknock\u201d and they would knock again to say thank you.&nbsp;&nbsp;There are also some Christian references that indicate that knocking on wood has to do with the wood representing the cross or the rosary.<\/p>\n<p>Another explanation could be British chasing games that date to the early 19th century where you would be safe from being \u2018tagged\u2019 if you touched wood.&nbsp;&nbsp;\u201cTiggy-touch-wood\u201d was a popular game and could account for the phrase \u201ctouch wood\u201d being passed into every day language in the UK.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Blurtit\/~4\/YpUKivCC1KM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This superstition is one that seems to cause a lot of people to \u2018knock on wood\u201d or \u201ctouch wood\u201d when they voice something good that they hope will happen in the future without really knowing why.&nbsp;&nbsp;The general idea is to not \u201ctempt fate\u201d. One possible origin of this superstition dates back to the Pagans who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}