Superstitions

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It affected them because every day people would more aware and if some how they got bad luck then people would stay away from them.

Grounded in actual understanding and justified knowledge than simply confirmation bias and the need to feel like one is in control of one's environment.

Conclusions arrived at by eliminating excess variables, as a way to see if an effect is the effect of a cause, and just simply a fluke or correlation which someone wants to believe is causation.

If something has a scientific basis, it means that it can be replicated by anyone else, since it's an objective fact and not dependant on a person's beliefs.

As in the product of a process that tries to minimise human error (which even the smartest among us commit) whereas superstition in most cases is the result of human error, and almost always unchecked.

The number 3 is widely accepted in western civilization as unlucky. 111 is a set of three numbers that add up to the number 3.

Some examples of superstitions are walking under a ladder, knocking on wood, and having bad luck after breaking a mirror. Superstitions do not have a scientific basis, there might be a reason such as someone walking under a ladder might get something dropped on them, but this is not scientific.

convinced that performing or not performing specific actions brings good or bad luck, that some events or phenomena are omens, and, generally, fearfully believing in a supernatural dimension to events

you have loads of examples...

1)the eclipse

superstitions state that an eclipse occurs when the devil swallows the sun and vomits it back due to the heat but it is actually the moon passing between the sun and earth and obstructing it from our view for a few minutes.

2)lightning

lightning occurs due to the wrath of lord Indra Zeus, Mut etc etc

but what is lightning ( google it!)

Superstitious beliefs are basically not proven and beliefs with scientific basis are beliefs that are proven to be true.

convinced that performing or not performing specific actions brings good or bad luck, that some events or phenomena are omens, and, generally, fearfully believing in a supernatural dimension to events

Three things that some superstitious people believe have some effect on their luck are... walking under a ladder, opening an umbrella indoors and having a black cat walk across their path.

the common superstition of the Philippines is like wag maliligo pag galing sa patay

that if a black cat crosses your path its bad luck. If one crosses your path on midnight on Halloween its bad luck for a year. BUT I DONT BELEIVE IN BAD LUCK AND GOOD LUCK . BAD AND GOOD LUCK ARENT REAL

Walking under a ladder has been considered bad luck for hundreds of years.; Logically, we all know how wobbly they are. But that's not the reason. Ladders have been considered the spiritual ascent to heaven. So the rule was Do Not Disturb the spirits who were using them! If a ladder is leaning up against a wall that forms a triangle. And in the old days a triangle symbolized Life. So... if you walked under a ladder leaning against a wall you were breaking the symbol of life. When tested recently in Britain, it was discovered that 70% of people still today refuse to walk under a ladder if there's another option. But, if you really must walk under a ladder then here are the rules: Cross your fingers Spit over your left shoulder (never the right) or...keep silent until you see your first 4-legged animal. This offsets any evil or danger.

in India many wet their gardens with water mixed wt dung so as to avoid insects from entering into house

in temples we are suposed to enter wt shoes as they spread dust and diseases from one another

ppl fast certain days of the week as a ritual but it actually relaxes the digestive sys

many gods are represented wt aura around them which is now proved to exist and is seen in klirian photography

i feel most of the superstions indeed have scitfc basis but are normally not understood or else forgotten by the commons

Superstition is a belief in a non-physical causality: that one event causes another without any physical process linking the two events. The word is often used pejoratively to refer to practices other than the one prevailing in a given society although the prevailing religion may contain just as many supernatural beliefs. It is also commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, prophecy and spiritual beings, particularly the belief that future events can be foretold by specific unrelated prior events.

Knocking on wood is a superstition designed to intercede when you have said or done something to "tempt the fates" and do not want the consequences to manifest in your life.

I have heard variations a plenty on it's origins, many cultures through out the world and history have some variation of it.

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Bloody Mary is actually two different people, one was real, the other was not.

Henry VIII had a single goal in life when he was king of England. It was to have a son. Sadly, he died with only 3 daughters. The debate was then which daughter would take the throne. His oldest daughter, Mary, used the killing of thousands of people as her way of "changing" the country's religion. The brutality of her actions gave her the nickname "Bloddy Mary"

Now for the Urban Legend. The other Bloody Mary is not a real person and the do not exist. I am a horror writer, myself, and I agree it is more than enough fun to pretend that something scary really does exist somewhere out there. But her story is that there was a girl named Mary. And she was murdered. now, her story is u chant her name three times in a mirror of a dark room and she will appear in the mirror and slay you with any means it takes.

I hope this helped. if you need more info on the first match, you can google "Mary Tudor" and more will come up.

There is no scientific evidence to support the idea that animals can sense spirits. While some people believe that animals may have heightened senses or instincts that could make them more sensitive to spiritual energy, this claim is not supported by empirical research.

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Those are pretty much like the whole 50ft woman thing. You know like a giant comes to a city and starts to destroy it? Well since they are big the earth quakes with each step they take. I can answer lots of questions on this. Just email me at highschoolofthedead@yahoo.com

In the British theatre it is bad luck to say "Macbeth". It is normally replaced by "the Scottish play".

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2. Find Your true love

3. Meet a famous person(Daniel Radcliffe)

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Horse shoes, 4 leafed clover, a rabbits foot, a found penny (but it has to be face up when you find it and you have to pass it on to someone else after you get your good luck). These are just a few examplesof the superstitious good luck charms people believe in.

The number 13 is considered unlucky for a variety of reasons. One of the most prominent is that Judas was the 13th person at the Last Supper and betrayed Jesus. Another theory is that when there were 13 full moons in a year, it upset the regular arrangement of the calendar that year.