| ▲ | yetihehe an hour ago | |
Knocking on wood was about knocking on unpainted wood, so that you have actual direct physical contact with wood. Remote knocking seems to go in the other direction... | ||
| ▲ | thaumasiotes 41 minutes ago | parent [-] | |
> Knocking on wood was about knocking on unpainted wood, so that you have actual direct physical contact with wood. How do you know this? For example, there is a wikipedia page section entitled "Origin of use in the English language"... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knocking_on_wood#Origin_of_use... but the contents of that section make it extremely clear that no relevant facts are known to wikipedia. | ||