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A blessing in disguise is an English language idiom referring to the idea that something that appears to be a misfortune can have unexpected benefits. [3] It first appeared in James Hervey's hymn "Since all the downward tracts of time" in 1746, and is in current use in everyday speech and as the title of creative works such as novels, songs and ...
Historia Calamitatum (known in English as The Story of My Misfortunes or The History of My Calamities), also known as Abaelardi ad Amicum Suum Consolatoria, is an autobiographical work in Latin by Peter Abelard (1079–1142), a medieval French pioneer of scholastic philosophy.
Breaking a mirror is said to bring seven years of bad luck [1]; A bird or flock of birds going from left to right () [citation needed]Certain numbers: The number 4.Fear of the number 4 is known as tetraphobia; in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean languages, the number sounds like the word for "death".
Duppy is a word of African origin commonly used in various Caribbean Islands, including The Bahamas, Barbados and Jamaica, meaning ghost or spirit. [1] The word is sometimes spelled duffy.
Condolences (from Latin con (with) + dolore (sorrow)) are an expression of sympathy to someone who is experiencing pain arising from death, deep mental anguish, or misfortune. [ 2 ] When individuals condole, or offer their condolences to a particular situation or person, they are offering active conscious support of that person or activity.
In chapter 13 of the book, Aristotle states that for tragedy to end in misfortune is "correct," [6] yet in chapter 14 he judges a type of plot in tragedy "best" [7] that does not end in misfortune. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Since the 16th century, scholars [ 10 ] [ 11 ] in Classics have puzzled over this contradiction or have proposed solutions, of which ...
Pandora's box is a metaphor for something that brings about great troubles or misfortune, but also holds hope. In Greek mythology, Pandora's box was a gift from the gods to Pandora, the first woman on Earth. It contained all the evils of the world, which were released when Pandora opened the box.
Misfortune (Italian: "Sfortuna"), an Italian fairy tale collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales; Misfortune, a 2005 novel by Wesley Stace; A Misfortune, sometimes translated "Misfortune", an 1886 short story by Anton Chekhov; Misfortunes, a 1930 poetry collection poems by Rose Macaulay