Superstitions

Its believed that a ruby brings a 100 years of bad luck and that you will grow rubies in your back.

To some extent yes. I think we are all have a little superstition in us, but when it begins to replace reasoning and science then it has gone overboard.

In the 1940s, a behavioural psychologist named B.F. Skinner developed theories about superstition based on his studies of pigeons, and scientists today continue to use his theories to explain superstition in humans. According to Skinner's theory, people come to believe in superstitions through a "reinforcement schedule": they come to see two events as related because they appear related in that person's experience, even though the events may well only be occurring together for coincidental reasons.

For example, if you eat salmon three times, and three times you get sick, you might come to believe you are allergic to salmon even though, in fact, you may be allergic to some other contextual detail -- such as the preservatives used on the salmon -- and not the salmon itself. Faced with this problem, you might take a comprehensive elimination diet test and determine the true cause, or (more likely) you may simply avoid salmon for the rest of your life because of your superstition, even though you would be perfectly safe to eat salmon caught fresh from the stream.

Simply put, superstitions start in human ignorance, and they end in science.

Yes, it is bad luck to kill a lady bird as they are a sacred perished nearly extinct and are as near to god as we are ever going to get. Amen

It is not any kind of omen.

People knocking on wood is a superstitious act. People think that they say something bad and then knock on wood, it will not happen to them.

Knives are said to be a dangerous gift... It is believed one must purchase a knife to safely use it. When giving a knife as a gift, ask the recipient to give you a penny and they will be safe.

It is believed that by giving a knife as a gift the relationship between the giver and recipient may be severed. To prevent this, the recipient should give the person who gave them the knife payment in return. Sometimes a penny or other coin will be presented along with the knife and returned back to the person giving the gift.

It is believed that when smoke follows you it means that some thing evil is lingering around you.

In ancient cultures, the umbrella represented royalty and power. African royalty for instance first used umbrellas to shield themselves from the hot rays of the sun. To open one in the shade was an insult to the Sun God. The superstition about it being bad luck to open an umbrella indoors may have originated because people saw it as an act that insulted the spirits of the household by implying their protection was inadequate.

Despite modern life, superstitions can still have a powerful affect on people and there are many who will avoid crossing people on stairs, walking under ladders breaking mirrors and many who will still carry a good luck charm.

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No. This symbol has no connection with superstitious luck.

It depends who you ask. I, being a science person and not believing in superstition, say that breaking a mirror is not bad luck, unless your parents get mad at you.

The left. It is said the devil sits over your left shoulder, spilling salt is supposed to bring bad luck upon yourself, and trowing the salt over your left shoulder therefore "blinding" the devil so he doesn't know who to bring the bad luck on.

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The purpose of demons is to frighten people so that the person doing the frightening will gain some benefit or power over a susceptible believer.

Nothing make/made them real. Superstitions are in the mind of the people who believe them, but they really don't exist in reality. We just think they do.

No, and the spirit of the raccoon will hunt you.

All people believe in luck in some form or other... The Irish no more or less then others.

The necklace has an association with a collar - as to a dog either via bond or control or protection of the master. In terms when a chain breaks it is believed that a bond will be broken....bad or good - it may relate to work such as no longer employed or freedom from a boss as he may be going out giving you freedom with a new boss or to step into that role. Also in relationships.....a boy in the U.S. would give his high school ring for all to see on his girlfriends necklace....hence stating his status or protection/etc...if the chain is to break means that the relationship will soon end. Is there truth to these yes and no.

Young love is fickle and employment changes as we pursue advancement in careers.... the honesty is the common action of nervous people about the status or security of their relationships well most finger or toy with these items distressing the jewelry causing the break. So is the superstition valid there is a term called yank my chain--no you must thing the relationship was troubled to start this creates unaware abuse or neglect of the item - no chain either relationship of personal matter or work can be continuously stressed or abused without breaking --but if in a good place we revere and take better care ensuring the necklace doesn't get broken.

Jewelry is delicate and takes uppermost care as with all relationship and if we fail to do so it states the actual relationship sense of failure ---hence why people associate a broken relationship a chain to another as a symbol of break-up. In work there is the term chain of command and love chains or bonds of love. Relax - as nothing in life is meant to be permanent - it also mean in the recesses of our minds we need to defuse the instability with our relationships but what is broken you have a choice repair the necklace or replace with one much better ---All superstitions are rooted in reducing the pain and noticing our emotional insecurities to allow us to focus on the realism of the world to be honest the quality of the chain may not be good as with any relationship did you invest in a good relationship? or if bought for yourself did you invest in you very well?

There is no such thing as bad luck. You are an idiot

Leaving a chicken bone on someone's doorstep is meant to bring that particular household bad luck. It is a gesture of ill will. The practice probably has roots in voodoo.

Superstition has nothing to do with it.

Yes they are but you will only have bad luck for 2 weeks