Magic in Wrestling

architeuthis · 05-25-2008, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by Big

Bunch of crap. I remember when I wrestled in the finals of New York freestyle states, my opponent was an immigrant from Georgia and he demolished everyone in the weight class. He also won Northeast regionals just a month before that. Before our match in the finals I saw him praying for like 10 minutes. I told my coach about it and we both laughed. I was losing 4:3 at the end of the match when I launched him with my favorite throw at the time with only 2 seconds left. I won 6:4 and never saw the guy in any wrestling tournament ever again!

This I think is the deffinition of, "Getting Caught".

pinartist · 05-26-2008, 04:10 PM

i was once at an olympic training centre in zakopane, poland. We were checking our weight in one of the back rooms, and there was this old gypsy lady just sitting there. She was talking to us in polish (noone could understand her) and she tried to grab some of us. It was really weird and freaky. I always wondered what the hell she was doing there at the olympic training centre. She looked like one of those gypsies that you would go for palm reading or what not.

Tight-Waist · 05-27-2008, 11:36 AM

Originally Posted by akzent

Don't attach Islam to an amulet which has nothing to do with it. I am talking about the thread, not the color.
When I said that I didn't know its exactly function in Iran, I meant its magic function - to avert evil or to attract good fortune (sometimes these 2 functions are interconnected).
Ossetians use the red thread to turn away evil.

This isn't an amulet.

Im wonderiing the same thing. Maybe Yazdani, or Iranews can offer some insight.

Yazdani · 05-29-2008, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by akzent

Don't attach Islam to an amulet which has nothing to do with it. I am talking about the thread, not the color.
When I said that I didn't know its exactly function in Iran, I meant its magic function - to avert evil or to attract good fortune (sometimes these 2 functions are interconnected).
Ossetians use the red thread to turn away evil.

This isn't an amulet.

Green is the color of Ali and his house (according to Shia Muslims). Ali's fighting prowess and strength are legendary so some people where it for strength and courage.

iranews · 05-31-2008, 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by Yazdani

Green is the color of Ali and his house (according to Shia Muslims). Ali's fighting prowess and strength are legendary so some people where it for strength and courage.

Yazdani is right. wrestlers bring these greens from places that Imams dhrines or tabernacles are. After prophet Mohammad, Shia muslims have 12 Imam who continue prophet way 1400 years ago. Only one Imam is buried in Iran(Imam Reza). Most of their shrines are in Iraq.
athletes believe these greens help them to win and gave them power. actually it is mentally doping!!!

akzent · 06-26-2008, 06:16 PM

I wonder what kind of (or whose) nuts Ossetian magicians cut before wrestling worlds/euros to make their wrestlers champions.

This evening Russia played vs. Spain in the semifinals of the soccer euros. Before the semis, an Ossetian magician worked magic against the Spaniards cutting 2 bull testicles. She chose to work with material from a bull because bulls were symbols of both Spain (meaning the bull fights) and masculinity, she said.

Here you can watch her working:
http://www.life.ru/video/3721

Well it wasn't Spain who lost this evening.