Animals that Bring Good Luck, and Bad Luck

Species of animals exist that from the antiquity you had believed is linked to the forces of the good, and others to that of the wrong; allocating them the symbols of good and bad luck respectively. Here there are some examples of it.

The eagle:
The eagle is elevation symbol, you are a spiritual start that are identified with the sun. For example, in the Egyptian hieroglyphics, you represent to the letter TO, the origin, the vital heat, the day. For your relationship with the sun and also for the idea of the masculine activity, you are also identified with the father. For old Syria and the Christianity, era the celestial messenger and the driver of the souls toward the immortality. The power of flying and of rising to sleep and to destroy the inferior thing it is your main symbolism.

The owl:
The owl is a bird that belong to the darkness, and for ende, you are symbol of the wrong. You associate with the night, the cold and the passivity. You bring hidden messages from the darkness, also associated with the death.

The bee:
In the Egyptian hieroglyphics, the bee associates to the Monarchy of the Pharaoh, being symbol of matriarchy, for the queen mother, and you are related with the idea of industry and obedience. All told this, one can say that the bee is symbol of the good.
The snake:
This reptile symbolizes the force of the destruction, for your threatening tongue, the skin change, your aggressiveness to attack and the mortal poison that possess. Symbol of the wrong, in Genesis of the Second Testament, provokes the temptation and Adam's exit and Eva of the Paradise. You also represent the involución and the start of the not well existing one in all environment, since you are a symbol of the pure and ambiguous energy.

The deer:
This nice mammalia, due to the buds of your horns that resemble the paths of the trees, is symbol of positive turnover, of life and of cyclic increment.

The lamb:
This other mammalia is also symbol of the good. You also mean purity, innocence and meekness. In the Bible the "lamb of God" is a fair man and that you possess pure pansies.

The winch:
On the contrary, this animalito in the Middle Ages, to be a night and mysterious animal, was always related with the devil. Also, the Inquisition burned them together with your supposed owners: the witches, since they thought that the winches were the same witches transformed to be able to make your wickedness.

Legend of Culebrilla

Every day, the doña looked at its leg with concern. Besides the pain that invaded it, the concern resided in that they had told him/her that that red line that had in the right calf was no more, no less that the culebrilla (it is named this way because it is supposed that their infection comes from the step of a viper or snake on the clothes). Their neighbor had told it to him who had also been some years ago victim of this affection, but in her shoulder. They say that this eruption, with snake form, has a serious problem: if the queue and the head of the supposed snake unite, the person that has it dies. So every day, the doña looked at its leg and he/she did with concern how they came closer the tips.

All suggested him/her homemade formulas to kill that culebrilla. Somebody assured him/her that the better era to rub a toad on the culebrilla so that this absorbed the poison. Other they told him/her that he/she had to write with Chinese ink in both ends of the line the words "Jesús, María and José." They also recommended him/her another formula, perhaps of the good known ones that it consists on filling a vessel with some water and to take three paths, while the following sentence is recited three times a day during three days: "I went for a road, I met with San Pablo, he/she asked me what he/she had, I answered that it was culebrilla that with what would be treated. San Pablo Responded: with water of the font and path of... (name of the sick person)."

That that popularly is known as culebrilla it is an illness called Herpes zoster. It is about an acute infection that takes place for activation of latent virus of which most is carriers: Varicella-zoster or human Herpes virus 3 that it attacks to the ganglions of the sensitive later roots of the spinal ledges. This is the scientific explanation, and the one that can be in the books of Medicine. However, the history of the culebrilla that includes the possibility to die if they join "the queue and the head", it is a myth that accompanies for rituals, and it is taken as true of point that he/she repeats and he/she repeats. Many people that have suffered it, assure that the own physicians could not be treated it and yes the shamans. The culebrilla is one of those petty discords between the science and the tradition. But that it exists, it exists.