Why do we toss coins into fountains?

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toss
Why do we toss coins into fountains.
börja lära sig
(verb) = throw, or flip
superstition
Throwing coins into fountains is a practice many people have grown up seeing and a superstition many have participated in.
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(noun) sự mê tín
toss backward
A trip to Rome is not complete without a coin toss backward into the Trevi for the promise of one day returning to the city.
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(verb) ném ngược về sau
mythology
Although its origin is unknown, the custom dates back to Roman-British and Celtic mythology.
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(noun) chuyện thần thoại
supernatural
The idea stems from people leaving a monetary offering to spirits or supernatural forces that exist in nature.
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(adj) siêu nhiên
spiritual entities
It has long been believed that spiritual entities reside in or transit through water because it’s a cleansing element necessary for life.
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(noun) các thực thể tâm linh
carved
Many cultures previously used offerings such as food, special stones, carved artifacts, and herbs.
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(adj) = engrave
chạm khắc
artifact
Many cultures previously used offerings such as food, special stones, carved artifacts and herbs.
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(noun) an object that is made by a person, especially something of historical or cultural interest
đồ tạo tác
the invention of coinage
But the invention of coinage in what is now modern-day Turkey between 500 BCE and 600 BCE, people largely switched to money.
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(noun) việc phát minh ra tiền
Ritual
Coins often have images, texts and symbols particularly suited for rituals.
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(noun) a religious or solemn ceremony consisting of a series of actions performed according to a prescribed order
nghi lễ = ceremonial
quasi-
It’s not so much about the payment, but how the coin itself has a quasi-magical property people think comes with it.
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(combining form) that appears to be something but is not really so, partly; almost
gần như
used in adjectives and nouns
sovereignty
It has a connection of sovereignty and represents a token of authority.
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(noun) supreme power or authority
chủ quyền
token
It has a connection of sovereignty and represents a token of authority.
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(noun) signal or mark
dấu hiệu
capitalist
The Gods are not capitalists.
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(noun) a weathy person who uses money to invest
investor/financier - nhà tư bản
anthropologist
Nowadays, an anthropologist from the University in Germany who studies coinage throughout history - said documented cases in East Asia show where people have thrown coins into the airplane turbines as good luck charms while borading.
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(noun) an expert in anthropology
người nghiên cứu nhân loại
charm
documented cases in East Asia show where people have thrown coins into the airplane turbines as good luck charms while boarding.
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(noun) bùa chú
flock to
People have flocked to other well-known wells and waters throughout history, and the coins may sometimes land with prayers attached.
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(verb) to go or gather together somewhere in large numbers
deity
Even at Sotheby’s Auction House, art buyers sometimes leave coins at the base of statues of Ganesha, the elephant-headed deity of good fortune and overcoming obstacles. l
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(noun) a god or goddess
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