Begging bread
When begging bread formerly was bread referred to this as alms begging was.
According to old ideas of superstition , like other things begged, it should have the quality of being healing or invigorating. It should have the ability to help children learn better.
Johann Georg Schmidt deals with begging bread in detail in his Rockenphilosophie from 1718. He tries to refute the superstition that children would learn to speak faster if they were given begging bread to eat. Instead, he suggests giving the bread to the poor children themselves and taking them in as playmates in the house.
literature
- Harmening, Dieter: Dictionary of Superstition , Verlag Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart, 2nd edition 2009.
Individual evidence
- ^ Johann Christoph Adelung, Grammatical-Critical Dictionary of High German Dialect, 1793
- ↑ E-text of the groomed rock philosophy at Zeno.org (1st volume, 1st hundred, chapter 13)