Birthday wish
Happy Birthday Wish: It is a common custom and a popular notion that your wishes are granted if you succeed in blowing out all the candles on your birthday cake in one breath.
It is also a traditional belief that wishes may also be granted through inanimate objects like talismans and charms. Fictionally, mermaids, witches, wizards and genies are all imaginary characters or supernatural mediums through which wishes are granted. If you want to make a card for a friend, you can easily find a list of the best quotes on the Internet. Myspace is an excellent resource if you want to send happy birthday wishes to your near and dear ones. In addition to happy birthday wishes, you will also find a lot of information on other birthday related topics.
Birthday Wishes And Poems: The concept of tossing coins into wells and fountains for a wish to be granted stems from traditional folklore. Water has always been considered a sacred gift from god in most ancient cultures, and hence people believed that if they pleased and thanked the gods by paying a price, usually a penny, their wishes would be granted. This practice continues to date in most regions of the world. According to a recent study, it has been reported that coins amounting to nearly 3 million pounds are flung every year into wishing wells and fountains. To make a wish with a wishbone, you must first find the furcula of the chicken or the turkey in the prepared dish. According to the customary tradition, two people have to pull from either side of the sternum bone, and whoever gets the gets the larger part with the joint and the wing can ask for a wish to be granted. Greeting cards with birthday wishes and poems can be found on various websites. Besides birthday wishes and poems, many websites also feature articles on how to plan and throw successful bashes on baby or bridal showers.
Funny Birthday Wishes: Making wishes can prove to be beneficial for an individual. Although wishes are considered as supernatural requests or demands, people can use their will and effort to make them come true. In order to have a wish fulfilled, a person has to be able to identify his desires, and then plan to achieve them as personal goals. Usually, there are no limits or restraints set on the number of wishes that an individual can make, or on the nature of the wish. However, in fiction, this number and the wish that a person can make varies in different tales, depending upon the storyline. A major chunk of children’s fairytales and traditional folklores are weaved around magical wishes as the central theme. Tales like ‘Aladdin’ from the famous book ‘One Thousand And One Nights’, is a perfect example of magical wishes coming true. In most of the tales and stories, wishes are granted by supernatural spirits or magical entities like ‘jinnis’. A wish may be granted either as a favor when the protagonist releases a supernatural entity from its bonds of confinement, or the powerful beings may be bound by obligation to comply with the requests of the character in the story. Most of these stories usually have a funny and humorous angle to them. You can send funny birthday wishes through animated e-cards using these fictional characters. Alternatively, you can also use funny jokes and humorous quotes from these tales to send birthday wishes.
Free Birthday Wishes: Apart from fictional possibilities, there are numerous traditions for making wishes outside the magical world of fairly tales and folklore. Besides the age-old tradition of making a wish when blowing out the candles on a birthday cake, many other practices are also in use. For example, blowing fallen eyelashes off a friend’s finger or blowing dandelion achenes, wishing when the clock strikes 11:11 or when spotting a shooting star, or when a feather or a lady bug alights on you, are all common examples of making wishes. You can use these ideas creatively in creating innovative cards. E-cards are a very convenient way of sending free birthday wishes to a friend or a relative. In addition to free birthday wishes, you can also find greeting cards for other special occasions and festivals, which you can adapt to include the above-mentioned elements to make them unique.
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