HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Weird Woman, Acronym, Heritability
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Strange, abnormal, unexpected, unusual, diferent, unordinary, bizarre, alien, etc. Partaking around the supernatural, strange appearances, etc. Noun is much deeper than the adjecive. Goes back to the beginning of old english. The principle power or agency by which events are predetermined, ixed or desined. Everything was weird since it was determined by fate or desiny. Inluenced a lot of folk history or folk tradiions in the west. People who saw desinies could also be called a weird. ". When things are considered weird, they are without reason. Belief in a kind of fate or desiny today, although it is no longer called weird. ". In a way, anything that happens could be considered weird. ". Desiny didn"t always mean progress," but it came to mean it. Weird man was considered a seer, but a weird woman was considered a witch. In modern imes, the term weird" is not really used in its noun deiniion, but rather in its adjecive. (cid:1) (cid:1)
