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“ The kind of belief and action a reasonable
man in present-day Western society would
regard as being ‘superstitious’ ”.
−Gustav Jahoda, 1956
What is Superstition?What is Superstition?What is Superstition?What is Superstition?
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Predictive superstitions:-
These are when people believe that a particular superstition will
predict an oncoming event, such as a black cat predicting bad luck
or a woman who catches the bride's bouquet at a wedding being
the next to get married.
Causative superstitions:-
These are based on someone actually doing something to make
something bad happen. For example, breaking a mirror is said to
bring you seven years of bad luck. Also, if you open an umbrella
inside a house you will receive bad luck. In this case opening the
umbrella isn't said to have predicted bad luck, but to have made
the bad luck happen to the person who opened it.
Conversion superstitions:-
These generally combine predictive and causative superstitions. If
you spill salt, you will receive bad luck (which is a causative
superstition). However, if you throw some of the spilled salt over
your left shoulder, you will avert the bad luck. You have converted
or annulled the negative superstition!
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1.Do you really believe in reincarnation?1.Do you really believe in reincarnation?
2.Do you believe in witch and wizard?2.Do you believe in witch and wizard?
3.What do you think of UFOs and Bermuda triangle? Are they superstition3.What do you think of UFOs and Bermuda triangle? Are they superstition
or science?or science?
4.Do you think that Black Magic really exists? Have you ever seen anyone4.Do you think that Black Magic really exists? Have you ever seen anyone
performing this?performing this?
5.What do you think of werewolf and vampires? Are they preying us?5.What do you think of werewolf and vampires? Are they preying us?
6.Do you think that ghosts really exist? Have you ever seen one?6.Do you think that ghosts really exist? Have you ever seen one?
7.What do you think of Friday, the 13th? Has any evil thing happened to7.What do you think of Friday, the 13th? Has any evil thing happened to
you on this day?you on this day?
8.How about black cats? What do you do when you see it crossing your8.How about black cats? What do you do when you see it crossing your
path?path?
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1.Do you really believe in reincarnation?1.Do you really believe in reincarnation?1.Do you really believe in reincarnation?1.Do you really believe in reincarnation?
Many people have read that many modern psychologists regress
their patients to their past lives and many people of different
religions believe this. So, there must be some truth in it. Some say
that today’s science may not be well equipped to prove it, but
they personally feel that reincarnation takes place.
There are other people who say that they are not at all ready to
believe in this.

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2.Do you believe in witch and wizard?2.Do you believe in witch and wizard?2.Do you believe in witch and wizard?2.Do you believe in witch and wizard?
Very few people believe in witches and wizards.
Some people do not believe in this.
Some say that they will accept their existence if they see one.

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3.What do you think of UFOs and Bermuda triangle?3.What do you think of UFOs and Bermuda triangle?
Are they superstition or science?Are they superstition or science?
3.What do you think of UFOs and Bermuda triangle?3.What do you think of UFOs and Bermuda triangle?
Are they superstition or science?Are they superstition or science?
A large number of people believe that these have scientific
explanations.
Some say that UFO is fake and Bermuda Triangle is a matter of
science and vice versa.

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4.Do you think that Black Magic really exists? Have4.Do you think that Black Magic really exists? Have
you ever seen anyone performing this?you ever seen anyone performing this?
4.Do you think that Black Magic really exists? Have4.Do you think that Black Magic really exists? Have
you ever seen anyone performing this?you ever seen anyone performing this?
Some people strongly believe in Black Magic but some doesn’t
know anything about it.
Some other people say that it doesn’t exist. It is just advertised to
scare the weak souls.

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5.What do you think of werewolf and vampires? Are5.What do you think of werewolf and vampires? Are
they preying us?they preying us?
5.What do you think of werewolf and vampires? Are5.What do you think of werewolf and vampires? Are
they preying us?they preying us?
A large number of people say that they have only read about these
in story books or have seen movies about these. But they feel that
they do not exist and they are not at all preying us.
But some people are really afraid of these.

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6.Do you think that ghosts really exist? Have you ever6.Do you think that ghosts really exist? Have you ever
seen one?seen one?
6.Do you think that ghosts really exist? Have you ever6.Do you think that ghosts really exist? Have you ever
seen one?seen one?
Some people think that it is just a joke. It is the creation of weak
hearts. It is our fear within, nothing else.
Some people say that they believe in ghosts. There different
reasons for different people. Some say that they have seen ghosts,
some say that they have books on true ghost stories, etc.

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7.What do you think of Friday, the 13th? Has any evil7.What do you think of Friday, the 13th? Has any evil
thing happened to you on this day?thing happened to you on this day?
7.What do you think of Friday, the 13th? Has any evil7.What do you think of Friday, the 13th? Has any evil
thing happened to you on this day?thing happened to you on this day?
Some people do not bother about this day because they consider it
just another day. There can be mishaps on other days too. They do
not want to blame a particular day.
Some say that this day have really proved to be an ill fated day.

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8.How about black cats? What do you do when you see8.How about black cats? What do you do when you see
it crossing your path?it crossing your path?
8.How about black cats? What do you do when you see8.How about black cats? What do you do when you see
it crossing your path?it crossing your path?
A large number of people say that if this happens then they go
their way and let the cat go its way. Some say that they will try to
pet it.
But some people say that they either stop their journey or change
their path.

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I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and
do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature.
They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.
-Thomas Jefferson
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children
of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run
than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
-Helen Keller
Superstition is the poetry of life.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be
thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.
-Voltaire
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of
a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.
-Voltaire
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Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify
science from idolatry and false absolutes.
-Pope John Paul II
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art
into pedantry. Hence University education.
-George Bernard Shaw
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
-Bertrand Russell
Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man
believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some
idol in his own brain.
-John Calvin
Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost
under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.
-Isaac Asimov
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Superstition is the religion of weak minds
-Edmund Burke
Conscience without judgment is superstition.
-Benjamin Whichcote
It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
-Thomas Henry Huxley
Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science.
-Henry David Thoreau
No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on it
legs again in the name of Jesus.
-George Bernard Shaw
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational −but how much does it cost you to
knock on wood?
-Judith Viorst
The superstition of science scoffs at the superstition of faith.
-James A. Froude
There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.
-Francis Bacon
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Curse
The Curse of the Bambino (1920–2004) was an urban
myth cited as a reason for the failure of the Boston Red
Sox baseball team to win the World Series for 86 years
after they sold Babe Ruth, sometimes called The
Bambino, to the New York Yankees. The flip side of
the curse was New York's success. After the sale, the
once-lackluster Yankees became one of the most
flourishing franchises in North American professional
sports. While some fans took the superstition of the
curse seriously, many others used the expression in a
tongue-in-cheek manner.

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Film
Title: Friday the 13th (1980)
Director: Sean S. Cunningham
Starred by: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King and Harry
Crosby
Tagline: You'll wish it were only a nightmare...
Plot Summary: Many years after two summer camp
councilors are killed at Camp Crystal Lake, the owner
decides to reopen, which sparks a series of grisly
murders.

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Fear of the number 13
More than 80 percent of high-rises lack a 13th floor.
Many airports skip the 13th gate.
Airplanes have no 13th aisle.
Hospitals and hotels regularly have no room number 13.
Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.
The house between number 12 and 14 is addressed as 12 and a
half on streets in Florence, Italy.
Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue.
In France, socialites known as the quatorziens (fourteeners) once
made themselves available as 14th guests to keep a dinner party
from an unlucky fate.
Many triskaidekaphobes, i.e. who fear the number 13, point to the
ill-fated mission to the moon, Apollo 13.
If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's luck.
Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jack the Ripper, Albert De
Salvo and Theodore Bundy all have 13 letters in their names.

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The Stone
People who believe in superstition say that by kissing the
Blarney Stone, one receives the ‘Gift of the Gab’. The
gift of the gab is best described in the context of "What
Blarney!" - the term used by the Queen of England,
Queen Elizabeth I. This was in response to Cormac
Teige McCarthy's attempt to sweet talk his way out of a
sticky situation, during negotiations of the takeover of
the Blarney Castle by the occupying English forces.
Cormac Teige himself was the King of Munster, living
in the Blarney Castle around the 14th century. The
stone itself is believed to have been created by a witch
way back in the middle ages.

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Song
♫ Title: Superstition
♫ Singer: Stevie Wonder

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Fictional character
Gladstone Gander is a Walt Disney fictional character
created by comic artist and writer Carl Barks for
Western Publishing. Gladstone first appeared in the
story ‘Wintertime Wager’ in January, 1948. Gladstone
is shown as a lazy and infuriatingly lucky creature who
never fails to upset his first cousin Donald Duck.
Gladstone's luck defies probability and provides him
with anything he desires, with hardly the need of effort.
His philosophy in life is summarized in leaving
everything to chance and taking advantage of
opportunities as they come.
Joe is a character in the comic strip Li'l Abner. He is
well-meaning, but is the world's worst curse, bringing
bad luck to all those around him. A small dark cloud
hovers over his head, to symbolize his bad luck.

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Literature
Luckdragons (Glücksdrachen) are a fictional dragon
species featured in Michael Ende's novel ‘The Never
ending Story’ (Die unendliche Geschichte). Only one
luckdragon by the name of Fuchur (translated as
Falkor) appears in the book; nevertheless, it is
described with meticulousness and detail.

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