Why do Westerners say "blessyou" when they sneeze?

Why do Westerners say "blessyou" when they sneeze?

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Sometimes I hold in a sneeze just because I don't wanna say "thank you" to people I barely know.

We just say "to your Health".

We also say the same thing when we make a toast

In the Netherlands we say "Gezondheid" which means "health".

Take this with a pinch of salt as its something someone told me when I was a kid:
During the times of the plauge, sneezing was a symptom so we bongs blessed eachother in the hopes that little Billy caught a cold, rather than his death sentence.

It seems that it was to protect another from diseases, considering sneezing is a sign of illness.

we say prosit

Sounds like "genocide" desu.

i always hold it in with my fingers in public because i sneeze like a retard and theres a decent chance it'll set me off to keep sneezing for 10 minutes

we say ψόφα, it means "drop dead" because we want them to die and stop spreading their germs

at my old job I used to always say it (prosit is our equiv, it's bless you also but in latin) to the woman who has my primary co-worker, but I think she felt it was like I was bullying her by "pushing" my voice on her like that when she really didn't want it. so I stopped doing it. it's kinda weird to always be saying it anyways.

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We say plaç, means the same thing

Love shouting at people who are about to sneeze so they can't and they have the feeling that they need to sneeze

i say salud (health) christcucks say "jesus"

We're not very western but we say nazdrave (health)

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_bless_you

this
but the thing we say as a toast is a little bit different

>In some cultures, sneezing is seen as a sign of good fortune or God's beneficence.[9][14] As such, alternative responses to sneezing are the French phrase à vos souhaits (meaning "to your wishes"), the German word Gesundheit (meaning "health") sometimes adopted by English speakers, the Irish word sláinte (meaning "good health"), the Spanish salud (also meaning "health") and the Hebrew laBri'ut (colloquial) or liVriut (classic) (both spelled: "לבריאות") (meaning "to health").

>In Persian culture, sneezing sometimes is called "sabr =صبر," meaning "to wait or be patient." And when trying to do something or go somewhere and suddenly sneezing, one should stop or sit for a few minutes and then restart. By this act the "bad thing" passes and one will be saved.

>In Greek culture, sneezing was widely recognized as a divine omen. In Book 17 of Homer’s Odyssey, Penelope speaks to Eumaeus in private about the suitors feasting in the halls of the king's palace, and how surely Odysseus will return and kill them. Suddenly her son Telemachus sneezes and Penelope laughed. A sneeze meant the intercession of the gods to make her statement come true. It was a blessing from the gods, connecting the sneeze to the "God Bless You."

loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/sneeze.html

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>National Geographic reports that during the plague of AD 590, "Pope Gregory I ordered unceasing prayer for divine intercession. Part of his command was that anyone sneezing be blessed immediately ("God bless you"), since sneezing was often the first sign that someone was falling ill with the plague."[7] By AD 750, it became customary to say "God bless you" as a response to one sneezing.[8]

In Spain we say "salud" wich means "health"

We say "бyдь здopoв" - "be healthy"

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It's an old wives tale, that people believed when you sneeze it's you soul or spirit trying to escape your body.
You say ''bless you'' so it keeps inside of you, so you have a chance for an afterlife.

the black plague, if you're sneezing you could be coming down with it

in Bolan we say:

>na zdrowie

I haven't heard 'jesus' in a long time.

We say "Bud' zdorov(a)" - wish you health.
Germans say "Gesundheit"

This guy is trolling: IIRC it's because in older times if you sneezed you might have the plague or something so people wished to his health.

They are barbarians.

The Sven is correct