The unusual Gift?

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 106836

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "paul_terzis" <paul_terzis at y...>
wrote:

>     I have to add something else to the conversation. I am not quite 
> familiar with the superstitions of your countries. But here in 
> Greece we avoid to give perfume as a present to people we care and 
> love. It symbolizes seperation and clash between the person who 
> gives the perfume and the one who receives the perfume. The only way 
> to counter the bad effect is the person who accepts the perfume, to 
> give back  to the person who gives the perfume a couple of coins. 
> Just for info!!!

I've never heard of that superstition before. Here in USAmerica, we
have a similar superstition about knives. If someonen gives someone a
set of silverware (if it's *silver*, a whole set is an *expensive*
gift), the recipient is supposed to give the giver one penny for each
dinner knife, butter knife, and other knife in the set. The statement
reason is that if you give a knife, it will cut your friendship, so
sell the knives instead.