What Do You Call a Sleeping Bull?

In ancient times, people believed that sneezing was the way for the body to get rid of its demons. During the plague, it's believed that pope gregory the first suggested saying, god bless you after a person sneezed. In portuguese, i think they would say sauge, which is just health. I think in german they'd say, gozuntit. And i'm not even sure what that means, but it's something you hear all the time. So there are all different kinds of ways of saying the equivalent of bless you in different languages.

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