Checking out questions on Mythology and Folklore, of all subjects? Practically every question can be answered with "that's just superstition".
Do you really find this subject so intriguing? What draws you to this subject?
Thanks!
2007-06-21 06:28:39 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
superstition is fun--- it's like halloween with black cats and all... it's good for a giggle. As well as interesting for a yarn (a little story). However, beliefs are beliefs.... some people believe religion is like a big superstition. Sooooo..... it all depends. I say who cares how other people are??
People who live in a fantasy world and who dont want to face reality is unattractive and hard to understand. I would say issues.
Other than that, it's a cool fascination and I have some superstitions I love (penny for good lucks, knock on wood, etc.). Nothing wrong with smiling
2007-06-21 06:34:45 · answer #1 · answered by Serena 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is the first time I've responded to a question in Mythology and Folklore, however the subject is interesting. Many people read about it and consider it a fun hobby or pastime.
Do you really find this question so intriguing? What draws *you* here?
2007-06-21 13:34:57 · answer #2 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mythology and folklore are much more interesting than you might imagine. "That's just superstition" is sometimes an adequate answer, but in a lot of ways just a cop out. The whole of the human past is bound up in mythology and folklore, and today, it's our popular myths and tales that still shape people's understanding of the world.
It's funny, but the idea that we can explain away myth and folklore by saying "It's just superstition," is itself a mythical notion. The ideas of "Enlightenment" and scientific progress have their own set of mythologies. People who think they are more rational and logical and therefore more superior are just as capable of creating mythical ways of looking at things. Isaac Newton was often cited as the perfectly rational man who put to an end all kinds of unscientific superstition. In reality, Newton was very much into religion and the occult, and these things interacted with his scientific work. (Check out the biographical work on him "The Last Sorcerer")
Myth and folklore, you can't understand the past, present, or future without understanding them! I suggest you check out Joseph Campell's "The Power of Myth" or some other like book for more info.
2007-06-21 13:34:01 · answer #3 · answered by Underground Man 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All culture is based in mythology and folklore. Man has always tried to explain the world around him. As we get more sophisticated we tend to deride the old explanations. Certainly science has help us to a larger understanding of our environment, but man will always strive for better answers. Some day our 21st century science will be thought of as primitive and superstitious.
You can learn an awful lot about people by examining their myths and superstitions. Don't knock it.
2007-06-21 13:52:13 · answer #4 · answered by Caffiend 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am extremely psychic .my dreams tell me the future sometimes..my mother was this way also. i just know the future a lot of the time.
i saw a large silver saucer shaped craft one day hovering right above a building.
i can lay my hand on people for severe pain and the pain immediately leaves them.
i saw in a vision a large explosion in new york right before 911.
i could write a book about this kind of thing. the paranormal .and also spiritual ways.i have also studied most all religions.. so i am somewhat interested in this section.because you don't think much of a particular subject doesn't mean that all people should ignore it.
2007-06-21 14:01:24 · answer #5 · answered by Tim G 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I did not even know i was on this subject until i read your question. People like to hear about things that have been passed down through the ages.
2007-06-21 13:33:04 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's just interest in the past, the way people thought, things they did and why they did them. It can be interesting, funny and amazing to see what they thought about and believed in. Believe it or not (if our world survives that long) hundreds and hundreds of years from now, people will look back on us and think, "what were they thinking of?"
2007-06-21 13:33:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
yea i dont believe in some of that, but if the questioner asks for something that i know about (folklore-wise) and they really do believe in that, then i will give an answer
2007-06-21 14:02:43 · answer #8 · answered by ceesteris 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i don't think its the stories that necessarily attract but more the reason that people believed them. I think myths and folklore speak to the state and complexity of the society they come from. but that's my opinion
2007-06-21 13:32:00 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Curiosity.
2007-06-21 13:42:50 · answer #10 · answered by missgigglebunny 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋