I just wanted to share this blog post - for all those who wonder about cross-culture deities and whether magic works in other systems

Nice of him to return a pagan god to the hands of a good heathen woman lol

in ireland EVERYONE relies on St Anthony, every time you lose something mind you here the correct way is to bribe him shamelessly and promise him something

Well, if one deity exists, then who knows how many thousands do as well? And it must be nice to be singled out and acknowledged. Makes a person or deity feel wanted and appreciated , I should think especially since there are so many to choose from.

Marto

Great story, Thin! I shall remember that, as my stuff always gets shifted around for some reason.

Deerheart

tut tut Marto St Anto is no deity, he's a saint, and a minion of the christian god. he just moonlights on the side as the finder of lost property !

If he can help me find my driving licence and my favourite pair of earrings, then I don't care what religion he is attached to - I just don't want to pay another £25 to the DVLA when I know it is somewhere in the house, lol

Since all else has failed, I might give him a try!

well my best friend's mammy swears by him, she usually says "St Anto, give us back (x) and I'll light you a candle" and finds the missing thing,
we had a nun that used to say" if st anthony returns it I'll give him a light"
THANKS for this, acutally it's brought back some pleasant little memories
that and praying to st jude, another irish favourite.

I read somewhere you had to turn his image upside down till he gave you back the missing thing - carrot & stick I guess

You do that (turn it upside down) with a figure of St Joseph if you want to sell a house. You bury it too, which must surely be an additional inducement for results!

Re the St Anthony thing though, I was reading a book of short, well, blogs I think you'd call them, by Marian Keyes, including one where she'd lost her passport just before she had to go to New York. She went to the Irish Consulate and one of the things she was apparently asked, in all seriousness, was if she'd asked St Anthony for the safe return of said missing passport. It was only when she assured the staff member that yes, she had, as had her mum, without success, that the passport was in fact deemed to be truly lost and another issued.

Of course, I would imagine that there is much literary license in this story, but it's an amusing one nonetheless

eh probably not exagerrating too much - i lost my credit card in a large store here and when i rang up looking to see if it was found, the very nice woman assured me she would pray to St Anthony for me, then rang back an hour later triumphant because it had been handed in

brilliant!

Fantastic!

Deerheart

I think I bought up the subject of St Anthony a few days ago, but I cant remember which thread. Was it about House Brownies or something? Anyway, no matter

But this was something a spiritualist friend of mine swore by, that if anything went missing St Anthony would help you find it. I'd never heard of it until she told me

Is it just objects I wonder?

Or would it work for things like.. minds... libido... memory... will to live - those kind of things???

I dunno Pomona I don't know any irish mammy ever asked for the return of her mind (thought they're free about giving you a piece of it) and I would have been shocked to hear a nun ask for her libido back

Ah now I thought St Joseph was for getting jobs (employment not relieving constipation ) I think I'm getting my Saints mixed up !

OT has anyone seen this new brand of clothes called G-sus ? There's a poster in the department store window by my bus stop. Is it for real ?

Hi Snippety,

Sad but true (and ever-so-slighlty funny!)

The Gsus brand is real! I have one that says 'Gsus says, I'm Frankie!- Priceless!

TAK

That would be the colloquial view of saints. However, as a saint's job is to intercede on behalf of god, it's actually 'god' doing the finding, he just lets St.Tony take the credit


++A patron is one who has been assigned by a venerable tradition, or chosen by election, as a special intercessor with God and the proper advocate of a particular locality, and is honoured by clergy and people with a special form of religious observance. The term "patron", being wider in its meaning than that of "titular", may be applied to a church, a district, a country, or a corporation. The word "titular" is applied only to the patron of a church or institution. Both the one and the other, according to the legislation now in force, must have the rank of a canonized saint.++

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11562a.htm

Marto

Medallions of St Anthony are one of the two Christian medallions soud by one of the major witchcraft shops around here. Or at least they were, I haven't been in there in a while. I was wondering what they were for.

Y'know what though - hasn't worked finding my Electrogaz receipts that I'm 99.9% sure my domestic, as with my last load of receipts and my cat's collar - and my tub of marge., has somehow managed to sweep into the rubbish bag *sigh*

I didn't offer him anything though - didn't the first time either, though maybe he just wanted to outstrip Ganesh

Or maybe it was because I was with my Irish friend? Maybe it only works if you ask in the presence of an Irish person

Like the one about turning the picture upside down to sell a house. Will remember that.

Ahhh... but that's the advantage of going with Ganesha - he never expects anything in return



You could be right. St Anthony may well just be joyriding on the "luck of the Irish"

Caerthan

You really should have bribed him Thinair mind you maybe it does only work for the irish LOL I like the thought of him "joyriding on the "luck of the Irish"
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of course maybe it's purely random and people only remember and pass on the times he does it and forget all the times it doesn't work!

erm what was the other medallion

St. Anthony Strikes Again...

Story from yesterday:

...there was a meeting from 8am-9am so I had to wait around upstairs in the resource room where I bumped into Hannah from Nyagatare. She was a bit upset as she'd just lost her wallet with all her cards and keys in. She was phoning around friends to see if she'd left it with them.

So, I did what any sensible person would do - I suggested she tried St. Anthony and related the Gahini story to her.

The mere mention of his name must have been enough - she pulled a jumper our of her bag and the wallet fell out!

There was a lot of giggling, then a slightly nervous silence before we commenced out general tasks.

I told Cathryn down the pub later and she thought it were grand lol I have to say, it's just the wrong side of coincidence for me.

Strike three!:

When my CouchSurfer Chris got back from Burundi he'd collected a rare coin there to take back to his uncle. He went to show it to me only couldn't find it and was sad, thinking he'd lost it on his travels.

A compulsion came over me. I couldn't help myself as I knew that it'd work.

"St. Anthony," I said.

"Eh?"

So I explained in brief. "Go on, try it."

The mere mention of his name meant Chris suddenly had a revelation and found it tucked away in his wallet!

"Say 'thank you St. Anthony'".

"Thank you St. Anthony."