Bless You and Break a Leg : A History of Responses to Sneezing and Theatrical Idioms

This book offers information about the significance of sneezing throughout history and examines possible sources of our responses to sneezing, including a potential tie to Pope Gregory and the Bubonic Plague. The book also provides suggested origins for the common theatrical idiom, "break a leg."

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