Superstitions

As a first time blogger, I really couldn't decide on what I wanted to write my blog about so I decided that I am going to write about superstitions. Superstition in latin (superstitio) means literally "standing over". It is used in Latin as an unreasonable or excessive belief or fear in magic, especially foreign or fantastical ideas. There are some pretty crazy and pointless superstitions out there today such as walking under a ladder is bad luck or friday the 13th. People fear what they don't know so they make up silly superstitions and follow rituals to try to understand things. People knock on wood to not jinx something, they don't walk under ladders because {while it should be common sense}, a triangle was considered a symbol of life and anyone who walked through any kind of triangle was said to be tempting fate. In 1972, a song called superstition was performed by Stevie Wonder for Motown Records. There are also the superstitious meanings of dreams. Some of the ones about superstitions dealing with death include: a bird in a house is a sign of death, the cemetary.. your supposed to hold your breath while passing a cemetary or it is said that you will breath in the spirit of a recently deceased person, because that sounds appealing.. not. {my personal favourite}. Another great one is that if 3 people are photographed together, that the person in the middle will die first. (I feel sorry for those of you who are always in the middle). The greatest wedding superstition is "If a single woman goes to bed with a piece of wedding cake under her pillow, she will dream of her future husband" (first of all who puts cake under their pillow, and even if she does dream of him how is she expected to find him?). People come up with superstitions because it makes them feel safer about certain things. Everybody is different though so while some people rely on the rituals of superstitions, others don't believe anything about them. If you want to check out a list of superstitions, here is a site that you can read all about them.. http://www.superstitions.ca/ Enjoy!