2006-10-05 12:36:05 · 9 answers · asked by piinkpolkadots 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
It's usually inherited.
Mine dates back to my great grandmother. We are in the south, which I believe has more stock in them. I grew up being taught to sleep under a new quilt and you will have good dreams, but not to sleep with your shoes underneath the bed or you would have bad dreams.
Of course there's the old black cat crossing the road in front of you saying. You have to "X" it out on your windshield to erase the bad luck that it brings on you.
New Orleans is probably the most superstitious area in the south, but we are all that way to one extent or the other.
2006-10-05 12:46:50 · answer #1 · answered by mom 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Becasue it's out of the ordinary. I don't buy into a lot of superstitions, but I have to admit that if a black cat crosses my path- I get a little nervous. I think that if you hear something enough, it's accepted as the norm. I don't even know what is suppose to happen if you walk under a ladder- but I know not to do it.
2006-10-05 12:48:19 · answer #2 · answered by Lady in Pink 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
superstitions are based on rules. Humans do not like the fact that things don't run on systems, therefore all the superstitions are simple systems the maintaining what we know so we know what will happen next. Humans like systems so much, that it's become part of religion. God hates that. Things were put on earth to be random, and no one likes randomness, so they try to control their surroundings, making them depressed b/c they can't except themselves for what they are, so they choose to make rules that free them from their depression!
2006-10-05 12:52:14 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes it's people's culture and things that have been passed on, like tradition.
2006-10-05 12:46:03 · answer #4 · answered by trafficjams 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They believe in them because that's what their culture taught them or they had some sort of experience that led them to be superstious...That's what I think.
2006-10-05 12:44:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As George Carlin said: because some people are stupid.
2006-10-05 12:44:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is a fun thing to do kind of like a tridation!
2006-10-05 13:11:22 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
If there is a lack of understanding then we fill the voids with what seems true, but is not...
2006-10-06 17:18:41 · answer #8 · answered by keemster05 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's all part of fear of the unknown. knock on wood, I am not superstitious
2006-10-05 12:44:20 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋