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*blink* Licked? [May. 8th, 2006|11:05 am]
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Superstition offers us a number of explanations for the appearance of birthmarks in the newborn, usually blaming them on some shock or evil influence to which the mother has been exposed during pregnancy. ( Though this is now discredited). In some cultures birthmarks are considered lucky, the mark of God, while in others they are attributed to the influence of the Devil and expectant mothers are advised to sprinkle themselves with black pepper to ensure their baby is not disfigured in this way. It is believed in some quarters that birthmarks will vanish if licked regularly by the mother in the baby’s early weeks ( A contention that is, extraordinarily enough, backed by science in certain limited circumstances.) In the USA, babies who are born with a “double” birthmark on the head are expected to travel widely and divide their lives between two continents.
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[User Picture]From: hotbroccoli435
2006-05-08 09:05 am (UTC)
who would have guessed? makes me wonder if my tiny birth mark on my ankle is a mark of god or the devil... >.>
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 09:06 am (UTC)
;) What's your guess?
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[User Picture]From: galskap
2006-05-08 09:05 am (UTC)
Oi, imagine that. A momma nursing her babe. Aw.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 09:07 am (UTC)
Nursing? Or licking? ;)
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[User Picture]From: zibacco
2006-05-08 09:24 am (UTC)
You know, I never really thought about birthmarks before. I have one on my left temple, but its very tiny. Apart from superstition explanations, what actually causes them?
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 12:10 pm (UTC)
I really don't know! I just got this from this cool superstition encyclopedia that I got at a thrift store. I need to go to work right after I finish checking these emails, but I'll try and remember to google search it when I get home. In the meantime, anyone else up to looking into it? :)

I noticed googleismygood deleted their lj, at least temporarily... :( So... I don't think they'll be able to help, alas.
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[User Picture]From: aongeli
2006-05-08 09:46 am (UTC)
I wanna know what the 'limited circumstances' in which 'scientifically' licking works to remove the birthmark.

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[User Picture]From: megthra
2006-05-08 09:53 am (UTC)
Wow, my cousin has a birthmark on her forehead in the shape of an "X" (I would assume this is kind of a double birthmark) and she actually does travel a lot and travels between California and Spain, living in both places.

odd.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 12:16 pm (UTC)
Very interesting!!!

You should send this info to your cousin, see wha† they make out of it.
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[User Picture]From: cloakofnonsense
2006-05-08 10:07 am (UTC)
wow...i found that really interesting because i have a red birthmark on my neck that's a little larger than a quarter, and not quite circular.

my parents thought about having it removed when i was about four years old, but i told them no, that it was a part of who i was and i wanted to keep it.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 12:18 pm (UTC)
Exactly!! If a birthmark or defect doesn't effect your life (I had a friend whose daughter had eleven toes when she was born, and so she wouldn't have problems finding shoes, they had it removed in surgery) I totally understand keeping it. Makes sense to me. I have a few little bigger then freckle (but just slightly) birthmarks on my body, but most are hidden by clothing... so only a few hundred people have seen them.

( LOL. JK. ;) )
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From: skittish_derby
2006-05-08 11:20 am (UTC)
i have one on my right hip/thigh/butt area that looks like angel lips. :smiles:

i think it means that from the get-go, god was kissing my ass.

:shrugs:

<3
me
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 12:20 pm (UTC)
LOL! Cute. ;)
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[User Picture]From: silent_despair
2006-05-08 11:26 am (UTC)

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Hm.
I've no birthmark.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 12:21 pm (UTC)

Re: -

That's cool. :) Mine are very minute.
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[User Picture]From: duckfast
2006-05-08 11:34 am (UTC)
i have one in my palm
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 12:22 pm (UTC)
Oooh, cool. Any particular shape or design?
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 12:24 pm (UTC)
Interesting. Maybe something on the way out? Unless you were c-section?

LOL. Yeah. Not my fetish, really...
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[User Picture]From: phekkin_nej
2006-05-08 12:03 pm (UTC)
Interesting...I love all my birthmarks as well as the ones on my boys :)
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 12:25 pm (UTC)
Ooh! Any cool ones? :)
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[User Picture]From: witchylatina
2006-05-08 12:14 pm (UTC)
I have a birthmark near my mouth on the upper lip....I have a speck on my nose, and two on the bottom of my lower lip. I wonder what that says about me? ["crazzzy, coo-coo....looney bin material"]
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 12:29 pm (UTC)
lol. I doubt it. It would be interesting if there was a birthmark dictionary, like a dream dictionary.
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From: smrtblondg
2006-05-08 02:48 pm (UTC)
I have a birthmark on my bicep in the shape of a cross.

Clearly the work of the devil.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 08:29 pm (UTC)
lol. Niiiiiice. :)

Any cool powers?
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[User Picture]From: esme
2006-05-08 05:17 pm (UTC)
I don't have a birthmark, but have always wondered what it would feel like to have one.

I was going to say no one in my family has a birthmark. However, my older sister has one that started on her hip. I'm not sure where it is located now. /shrug/
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-08 09:13 pm (UTC)
*blink* Why would it have shifted?
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[User Picture]From: xenaamazon
2006-05-08 08:04 pm (UTC)

Birthmark.

I have one on my right hip. lol.
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[User Picture]From: randomposting
2006-05-09 08:38 am (UTC)

Re: Birthmark.

You know what that means!
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