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tarajoy
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(6/15/05 2:12 pm)
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white buterflies
i seen a white butterfly and it brushed my arm. what does it meen to see or feel a white butterfly.
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Connie
Unregistered User
(6/15/05 8:50 pm)
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white butterflies
Did you ever read the Moomintroll books by Tove Jansson when you were a kid? I remember in one of them they said that if the first butterfly you saw in spring was white, it was going to be a good summer. I don't know if that is a general truism or just something in her books though.
Connie
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GailS
Unregistered User
(6/16/05 7:57 pm)
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White Butterfly Folklore
A quick search of White Butterfly Folklore turned up the following information:
From: members.aol.com/YESedu/folklore.html.
Zuni Indian Sayings: "When the white butterfly comes, comes also the summer". "When the white butterfly flies from the southwest, expect rain."
From: www.insects.org/ced4/symbol_list1.html.
Butterflies have much to do with the prediction of weather in many cultures. The Zuni Indians of the American southwest believe "when the white butterfly flies from the southwest, expect rain." "Some say that if the first butterfly is white it will be a rainy summer." The reasons for these beliefs are undocumented
Death is symbolized by many aspects of lepidoptera. In Maryland, if a white butterfly enters your house and flies around you, it foretells death.
Omen of Sickness
"There are many superstitions regarding specific butterflies. Among the Bulgarians a dark butterfly presages sickness." "In Ruthenia, the first one, if white, announces sickness." It is possible that the association of the white color of the butterfly's wings with the pale, white color of someone becoming sick accounts for this belief.
From:
www.emblibrary.com/Emblib...30304.asp.
Some Irish mythology says that a white butterfly or moth is the soul of
a pure and blameless person traveling to paradise. If the wings are spotted,
the soul must spend some time in purgatory before traveling to paradise.
From: www.pitt.edu/~dash/japanlove.html.
“The White Butterfly”
Hope this helps,
GailS
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GailS
Unregistered User
(6/16/05 10:58 pm)
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Try again...
"The White Butterfly"
www.pitt.edu/~dash/japanl...#butterfly
GailS
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