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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

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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 superstition 3.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 anyone 4.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 to 7.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 your 8.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? Have 4.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? Have 4.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? Are 5.What do you think of werewolf and vampires? Are they preying us?they preying us?

5.What do you think of werewolf and vampires? Are 5.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 ever 6.Do you think that ghosts really exist? Have you ever seen one?seen one?

6.Do you think that ghosts really exist? Have you ever 6.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 evil 7.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 evil 7.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 see 8.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 see 8.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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CurseThe 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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FilmTitle: Friday the 13th (1980)Director: Sean S. CunninghamStarred by: Betsy Palmer, Adrienne King and Harry CrosbyTagline: 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 13More 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 StonePeople 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 characterGladstone 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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