{"id":639088,"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.com\/index\/639088","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":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2GfS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}