WHY YOUR EARS "BURN"
According to an old superstition your ears "burn" when some one is talking about yon, but the real reason for this sensation, a medical authority explains, is an irregular circulation, remarks a correspondent in an exchange. The blood is sent pulsing at an extra rate, the pressure on the b^'od vessels is carried to the extremities of the system, and the little vessels of the ear arc filled. One ear can be affected without the other by the little disturbance being purely local and confined to one side. The superstition that a burning car denotes that someone is talking about you is very ancient. What happens—according to one theory popular among scholars —is that while you are unconsciously thinking of a certain person, you experience some sort of emotion, cither of like or dislike for him, and that the little mental disturbance affects your blood pressure, and so the ear "burns." Instead of this being a sign that the person is thinking of yon, it shows that you have been thittkLnj ol him.l
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1926, Page 15
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