“Bless you”

Whenever someone sneezes you say “bless you” or hear someone else say these words.

God bless you is a common English use to wish a person blessing in various situation especially as a response to a sneeze and also when parting or writing a valediction. The phrase has been used in the Hebrew bible by jews and by Christian since the time of the early church as a benedictional as well as a means  of bidding a person.

 The practice of blessing someone who  sneezes dating as far back as least AD 77 however is far older than most specific explantation  can account for 590 as the bubonic as raching rome.

 I some culture sneezing is seen as a sighn of good fortune or gods beneficience.