Superstitions?

Question

Who invented superstitions and why?

Answer 1

way back in the olden days.
People noticed trends. These came to be superstitions.
Also wives tails and also common sense play a role in some of today's superstitions.

Like going under a ladder.. its bad luck..
Of course it would be if anything fell on you ..

Answer 2

I am sure they have been around since the first day humans started walking the earth. Imagine you are one of the few homo sapiens in the next couple hundred square miles it has been dark and rainy for days so you deeply wish that the sun came out soon. You try everything from praying to the gods to sacrificing your next door neighbor and nothing works out. By the way you see that your cousin is hanging from trees and acting all silly (not helping out with your rituals or whatsoever). Next thing you see is that your cousin brings home a red feather (from a red feathered bird whatever kind of bird that may be). You think oh great only if she did smt. useful, but 5 mins later the clouds move away and it is sunny warm and beautiful outside. So you now associate the red feather with the sunny weather and every-time you are fed up with the rain you will think that the red bird's feather should cure it. Moreover, your little invention (which is actually a supersitition) will be spread around faster that you can imagine by the word of mouth. Well, not every human being will do this association but there are enough out there who will. So, it is up to you to figure out what kind of scenarios may have led up to other superstitions to come about. There are millions of possibilities. Hope this made some sense if none at all...

Answer 3

Nobody actually "invents" superstitions. They usually come from way back in early history, when people used magic to explain phenomenon they couldn't explain otherwise. The same problems that gave us witches burning at the stakes, black cats as familiars, and houses inhabited by gnomes, also gave us such practices as not walking under ladders or throwing spilled salt over your shoulder. No one person was responsible, but an entire culture's beliefs and practices passed down through generations. They are, simply, practices used to ward off evil or bring good luck that become so common as to be ingrained into our brains from an early age, even when it is well known that nothing will actually come of walking under a ladder or shattering a mirror.

Answer 4

I think they have been around since Adam and Eve got kicked out of the garden. They didn't have any more real reference points so they just started being careful in certain areas.. maybe too many people died in one area of the land. Then as it progressed people sat around the campfire and tell about ghosts and scarey events in the dark.. People looked for a way to protect themselves from those bad and scarey things and others thought up amulets.. fear of black cats.. or salt over the shoulder.. and then when ladders got invented. well it was all over the place after that!

Answer 5

Superstitions have been around as long as human beings have been around. Many of them started in the very beginning of communication between humans as a form of explinations for things that early humans didn't have science to help understand.

Answer 6

People need silly reasons to pin the blame for their stupid mistakes. Similar to greek mythology, only for everyday stuff. Like, Hey! My lucks been down lately, a black cat must of crossed my path!"
Merry Christmas

Answer 7

our ancestors. ancient people, old towns men and the like. they had their own religion and faith--> and out of ignorance and inexperience feared for their well being and relied on stories and signs to guide their lives.plus they did not honor coincidence but rather treated it as a sign.they focused more on supernatural explanations rather than scientific and logical ones.

Answer 8

superstitions are like religions.
to keep people in line. to keep people behaving well socially.

Answer 9

well, no single person really invented them, but many people. They are kind of like beliefs

Answer 10

they were all made from stories that changed over time..probably started manyy years ago.. there were some even in ancient rome