It was a way to explain events that they didn't understand. If you don't know how or why something happens, then, people make up the answers. We have superstitions today that we take for fact that 1000 years from now people will wonder how we could think such things.
You should not believe in Superstitions. Superstitions is the product of ignorance among people. Many superstitions are not true.
People believe in superstitions because they are driven by fear.
Possibly because they were religious. People who are not religious do not normally believe in superstitions.
Superstitions are beliefs supported only by rumor, not by factual observation. Rational people therefore do not believe such things.
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They don't really. People who believe in superstitions are more prone to believe in the haunted houses thing than people who don't.
Yes, a lot of people still believe in superstitions, despite clear and contradictory evidence (or rational explanations for the origin of a superstition).
Yes, anybody that wishes to believe in superstitions can.
It has no survival value. People believe in in all kinds of things which others would consider superstitions. In most cases it does no harm.
Actually no, these are just superstitions that people believe.
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There are a bunch of superstitions that people believe in. Things like black cats, the number 13, and walking under a ladder are the most common.