No. I don’t think I’m superstitious at all. I’m not afraid of the the number 13. I’m totally okay with splitting poles and I don’t freak out if a black cat crosses my path.
I will, however, say that I don’t generally walk under ladders. That’s not out of fear of bad luck; rather it just feels unsafe having something over your head like that.
I think all sports have superstitions, but baseball seems to be the worst offender of the bunch. Here’s a Bleacher Report article on the 50 Strangest Baseball Superstitions. Check out this video of Hall of Famer Manager Sparky Anderson stepping over the foul line as he goes out to make a pitching change.
Incidentally, I have broken a mirror on more than one occasion in my life. But I’ve never thought to myself “crap, there’s seven years of bad luck”. Sure, they were bad things that happened in life, but I can’t blame them on superstitions.
I understand people’s need for belief in superstitions. We all want to have good things happen to us. More than that, we want to be protected from bad things happening. but our superstitions go back to older times, when we didn’t know as much about the world and how things worked; science in our understanding of the universe wasn’t what it is today.
A lot of people will talk about the link between religions and superstition. Some people will even go as far as to say that all religion is is a bunch of superstitions. However, I’m not gonna go down that road…
Are you superstitious?
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