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by Anonymous271 on January 18th, 2007

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What is the origin of superstition?

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  • by Farino on January 18th, 2007

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    Lack of comprehension. "A superstition is the irrational belief that future events are influenced by specific behaviors, without having a causal relationship.....A gambler may credit a winning streak in poker to a lucky rabbit's foot or to sitting in a certain chair, rather than to skill or to the law of averages."
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition
    It isn't the object, the cat nor the number. If one believes that something is lucky/unlucky then the unconscious will do all that it can to make that belief hold up. A baseball player may believe that the same jockstrap brings him luck, it doesn't. He just performs better while wearing it without knowing. A person that walks under a ladder doesn't become unlucky but merely becomes more anxious due to the superstition. Thus they make silly errors and then they attribute that error to bed luck.

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