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[Kiba]

Did you know, when you sneeze once, your heart stops for a second. That means you are dead for a second. The origin of saying "God Bless (You)" when someone sneezes is to hope for that person not to get infected by any deadly plagues. But in China they will say "Yi Bai Sui (100 years old)" or tell the person that someone is missing you or they are actually yelling at you when you are not presence. (But this seem to be not very common in China)In Norway they say "Prosit" for hoping the persons soul to not jump out of its body.What does your country say after you hear someone sneeze?

Your heart doesn't stop when you sneeze. It was an old wives tale from the middle ages that stated your heart stop.The origin of saying "God Bless You" had nothing to do with disease. It came directly from the fact that they thought your heart stopped in the middle ages. In reality pace maker cells in your heart regulate the electrical charges that keep your heart pumping.The idea of someone missing you, is actually based off of the idea of someone talking about you and that being the reason that you sneeze.

[Obliv1ousmAn]

Your heart doesn't stop when you sneeze. It was an old wives tale from the middle ages that stated your heart stop.The origin of saying "God Bless You" had nothing to do with disease. It came directly from the fact that they thought your heart stopped in the middle ages. In reality pace maker cells in your heart regulate the electrical charges that keep your heart pumping.The idea of someone missing you, is actually based off of the idea of someone talking about you and that being the reason that you sneeze.

wait someone told me that when you sneeze once someone is talking about you and if twice they are talking smack about you? :Dand we say a combination of whatever the hell leaves are mouth in america i.e.(gezundheit, God bless you, cover your damn mouth!, Ewww dont sneeze this way, etc.)I personally say God bless you and if they sneeze again I say "dont look at me I already said it once"

[The Mothman]

"Bless you" is what I say. It's simple, and my family prefers that phrase, so I do it too.

[Klokinator]

Your heart doesn't stop when you sneeze. It was an old wives tale from the middle ages that stated your heart stop.The origin of saying "God Bless You" had nothing to do with disease. It came directly from the fact that they thought your heart stopped in the middle ages. In reality pace maker cells in your heart regulate the electrical charges that keep your heart pumping.The idea of someone missing you, is actually based off of the idea of someone talking about you and that being the reason that you sneeze.

Wrong.

Your close it is said to stop evil spirits from invading your body. People used to think when you sneezed there was an opening for evil spirits to invade your body so they would say "bless you" or "God bless you" to stop that from happening

Correct.The saying "Bless you" originated when people believed sneezing involved evil spirits invading the body though nasal and/or oral passageways. Gross, but true.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bless_you

Another version says that people used to believe that your soul can be thrown from your body when you sneeze,[1] that sneezing otherwise opened your body to invasion by the Devil[2] or evil spirits,[4] or that sneezing was your body's effort to force out an invading evil spirit.[1] Thus, "bless you" or "God bless you" is used as a sort of shield against evil.

[megafuse]

Depends on the direction they sneeze, if its away from me i would say 'Bless You' or just stay still pretending not to have heardIf it was towardfs my direction i sometimes get ticked off and maybe start shouting at them or glare at them.

[SlasherManEXE]

usually i just do a quick bless you and make a joke or something. nothing big

[AndyThePlayer]

I say Alhamdullillah which means "All praise to Allah(God)" in arabic

[Klokinator]

Usually when somebody sneezes I say;"You got a problem or something?"