Did any of you have a blood brother/sister?
Posted by DoubleFeedback2672@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 52 comments
Two of my buddies and I, at like 10/11 cut our hands and shook and became blood brothers. It seemed, at the time, that everyone had a blood brother or sister.
Front-Cat-2438@reddit
Blood exchange, and each had to bury their favorite toy with their own blood on it together.
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
That is a serious process!
Front-Cat-2438@reddit
Yup. Sure was. We never washed our hands, either. Oh, to think on that, again amazing we survived to adulthood. Thanks, vaccines and oral antibiotics!
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
What was the saying? If it doesn’t kill you it makes you stronger?
Front-Cat-2438@reddit
…or leaves you irreparably damaged but not dead. I remember getting tetanus shots, my arm blowing up like a bad movie effect, and the nurse saying, “Strong reaction. Looks like you’ve been exposed to tetanus recently…” every time. Since everyone smoked and littered the butts, At least our mum made us wear shoes.
EntertainmentOwn6907@reddit
I forgot about this! Yes, I was blood sisters with the girls in my neighborhood
whipla5her@reddit
Yeah me and one of my best friends cut our palms and shook hands as teens. Unfortunately he took his life in his late 20's.
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
Sad dude
whipla5her@reddit
Yeah it was. ☹️
LayerNo3634@reddit
My best friend in elementary school. We used a piece of glass we found in the field at school (no playground). I haven't spoken to her in years.
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
My sister and the girl across the street pricked their fingers with a needle and pressed them together to become blood sisters. I wonder if AIDS put a stop to this or it was just dumb.
gravitydefiant@reddit
My sister and the girl across the street and I also did this. It would have been the late 80s, and my mom freaked the fuck out when we told her.
MaximumJones@reddit
AIDS definitely put an end to that cultural phenomenon by the mid 80s.
FleetAdmiralCrunch@reddit
Definitely AIDS took it out of popular culture in the 80s around me. Used to be in many shows and movies, then gone.
11CatLady@reddit
Yep
Immediate-Rub3807@reddit
I in fact became a blood brother with my best friend who lived across the street and later on he actually became my stepbrother…boy that’s a story
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
I think that’s a story for your own post. Let me know I’d like to read it
Immediate-Rub3807@reddit
Ahh it’s the classic tale of betrayal and romance and revenge, in no particular order. It’s funny I always told people that I was going to write a book on it because when I tell people about the stories I’ve got they never believe me.
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
If you could spin a good story, give it a shot. You could be the one that makes it.
Immediate-Rub3807@reddit
I appreciate that and thank you, who knows maybe I will
SignificantTear7529@reddit
I have one.
New-Introduction-981@reddit
My family with other families decided thousands of years ago to do what the Rock and Roman reigns and his family do. I have cousins who aren't even really related to me. I was shocked, flabbergasted and hoodwinked when I found out my favorite cousin wasn't a cousin
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
Must be fun at family parties
New-Introduction-981@reddit
It is explaining it new friends was fun. I'd be like, dude, just go with it. I lost the map years ago. I'm using the stars and placement of the sun
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
That’s hilarious
PRC_Spy@reddit
AIDS fears.
Definitely not.
Nedinabox@reddit
All of us friends who lived on my street and the next street did it (around 12 of us). I am sure one of us saw it on TV and thought it was the thing to do. I can't imagine too many people would do it these days.
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
How many do you still talk with? Blood brothers to the end.
Nedinabox@reddit
Sadly a couple of them are no longer with us (unrelated to blood mixing lol). I still talk to all of the rest of them.
To the very end!
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
That you still speak not that some passed
Nedinabox@reddit
In a way, I still talk to those guys too.
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
Word
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
That’s fucking dope
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
I speak with one still occasionally, the other passed about 10 years ago
Mission_Orchid_5939@reddit
I had a blood brother when I was 7 but we moved away.
jessek@reddit
Nah that shit was over when I was a kid because of the AIDS pandemic.
anonymousdlm@reddit
I remember my cousin wanted to become blood sisters. I said But we’re already related and share blood. She was so sad and insistent because we were best friends and cousins so I gave in and we became best friends, cousins AND blood sisters.
Practical-Bar8291@reddit
Yeah, I still have the scar. I cut too deep lol.
Yum_Kaax@reddit
There was someone, when I was very young, that we became blood brothers. But we didn't prick fingers. We buried a strand of hair in the earth. I don't know if that's an alternative custom. I also don't remember who it was.
Bazoun@reddit
Oh that dredged up an old memory. I dated a Kosovar Albanian once upon a time, and he mentioned something about cutting hair together, with a friend, to become blood brothers.
Maybe this is what he meant? His English was still developing at that time, he may have confused cutting with pulling out a strand.
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
I think everyone has their own tradition
Bazoun@reddit
Interesting tho
Brilliant-Onion2129@reddit
With my best friend during my teenage years.
Illustrious-Fun-549@reddit
I have "thumbtack sisters" Three of us pierced our ears with the same gold thumbtack....We did heat it with a lighter first, lol...
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
Yes! We used sewing needles! I forgot about that! Left ear only got boys we were told
makeup1508@reddit
I do. We became friends because our parents were friends when we were in grade school-that's when we blood sistered then we went to junior high & high school became much closer friends. Still friends now.
DoubleFeedback2672@reddit (OP)
That’s pretty cool
basscat474@reddit
Oh yeah
TitoBandito5@reddit
Yep - we carried pocket knives & one day decided to do the same.
DarkFaerieNKC@reddit
Me and the kids in my neighborhood were all blood brothers and sisters. Dunno why we all decided to but we all agreed lol. We ranged in ages from 19-12. I still talk to one of them occasionally lol.
cosmic_scott@reddit
yeah, lots of us did it.
i believe the movies popularized it. like, I think, Billy Jack, and the sequel.
i know it was everywhere in the 70s, and I'd think AIDS and our hypochondriac news.
RedditSkippy@reddit
Can remember seeing this in TV, but I can also remember my mom exclaiming how dangerous it was because of AIDS (and other things.)