Why shouldn't the bread be placed upside down on the table?

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This week, a perfect question to liven up tonight's meal: why shouldn't we put the bread upside down on the table?

Yes why ?

The superstition that presenting bread upside down on a table attracts the devil dates back to the Middle Ages.

At that time, the death penalty was widely practiced.

It is performed in public, often at market time so that the people can attend.

Given this schedule, all occupied with their task, the executioners could not go to the baker to buy their bread.

Also, this trader reserved the executioner's bread so that he could come and get it later.

And to be sure not to sell it to others, they got into the habit of returning it.

Putting a loaf upside down therefore means reserving it for an executioner, synonymous with death, misfortune and why not the devil.

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