Upside down. Probably that's why we're supposed to bury a statue of St. Joseph in our lawn if we're trying to sell our house?  Wake him up and so he can work for us? Thanks for posting.  I always wondered why putting him upside down was important. Alexa Genealogy research since 1974 Ancestral hauntings - I ain't afraid-a no ghosts... --- On Tue, 6/26/12, Carolyn Long <carolynlong@earthlink.net> wrote: Folklore says that if you turn the picture or image of the saint upside down it will wake him up and get his attention so that he'll "work" for you. Same would probably hold true if you turned your ancestors' pictures upside down on your desk.