Superstitions are beliefs and practices that are not based solely on fact or reality, such as wearing the rabbit's foot because it is believed to bring good luck, or the belief that Friday the 13th is a day of misfortune.
If you pick up a penny, is it because you're poor or do you think you're lucky? If you have to get under the ladder as soon as possible, will you be able to do it even if you are unlucky?These are his two examples of superstitions, the irrational choices we make for some strange reason. The word is of Latin origin and means "survive", similar to freezing when standing on a broken mirror. Don't worry, it's just superstition, right?
Beliefs and practices arising from ignorance, fear of the unknown, reliance on magic or chance, and misunderstanding of cause and effect
The Spanish texts are filled with leading questions, phrased in a way that implied Timucua traditions were sinful superstitions.—Jennie Rothenberg Gritz, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 May 2023Naples is a proudly superstitious city, its streets and its buildings and its people struck through with genuine belief in and respect for scaramanzia: the power of superstition.—Rory Smith, New York Times, 20 Apr. 2023Eventually, Blinks compiled enough information to distribute streaming rules that are part YouTube policy, part folk knowledge, part fan superstition.—Taylor Behnke, Vulture, 19 Sep. 2022
These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'superstition.
