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Originally posted by ltl/fb
I think buying knives as a gift is supposed to be bad, but whatever.
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Giving a
married couple a knife is a bad omen --- it predicts that their bonds will be cut. So the couple is supposed to give a coin to the person who gave them the knife, so that the knife is "purchased" in a sham transaction probably familiar to most of us.
No word on its karmic effect on spinsters.