from one person to another or from one culture to another. Common superstitions in India today include a black cat crossing the road being bad luck, cutting...

A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural, attributed to fate or magic, perceived supernatural...

Project. Retrieved 26 March 2021. Escalona, Katrina (31 July 2017). "9 Superstitions Many Filipinos Still Believe". Culture Trip. Retrieved 26 March 2021...

Superstition in Russia covers the superstitions and folk rituals of the Russian community. Many of these traditions are staples of everyday life, and...

The Elements, and astrological gender), as discussed in the book Astrology: Science or superstition? by Eysenck and Nias (1982). Bepin Behari (1991). Fundamentals...

nazar qurbāni (نظرقربانی). In India and Pakistan, the Hindi-Urdu slogan chashm-e-baddoor is used to ward off the evil eye. In the Indian subcontinent, the...

structures of Islamic religious authority and piety in Islamic history. The study of superstitions in Muslim societies has raised difficult but important...

is a criminal law act for the state of Maharashtra, India, originally drafted by anti-superstition activist and the founder of Maharashtra Andhashraddha...

Japanese superstitions are rooted in the culture and history of Japan and the Japanese people. Some Japanese superstitions are meant to teach lessons...

Federation of Indian Rationalist Associations. In contemporary India, Vastu consultants "promote superstition in the name of science". Astronomer Jayant Narlikar...

Theatrical superstitions are superstitions particular to actors or the theatre. William Shakespeare's play Macbeth is said to be cursed, so actors avoid...

The Elements, and astrological gender), as discussed in the book Astrology: Science or superstition? by Eysenck and Nias (1982). Narlikar, Jayant V. (2009)...

Sailors' superstitions are superstitions particular to sailors or mariners, and which traditionally have been common around the world. Some of these beliefs...

dedicated to fighting superstition in India, particularly in the state of Maharashtra. It was founded by Narendra Dabholkar in 1989. Since 2010, the organization...

in India Religious skepticism Secular humanism Secularism in India Superstition in India Chakravarti, Sitansu (1991). Hinduism, a way of life. Motilal...

Bureau. "India's 'witches' victims of superstition, poverty – DW – 07/26/2019". dw.com. Retrieved 27 January 2023. "Five women killed in India by villagers...

known as Mangal Dosh because of schwa deletion, is a Hindu superstition, prevalent in India. A person born under the influence of Mars (Mangala) as per...

south was much slower than in the north, where the dynasties' political power resided for much of early Chinese history. In India, there was also a miasma...

prescribed "period of impurity". The period of impurity is a common superstition in India where a woman is said to be impure during her period and the twelve...

(ABANS) organization that fights superstitions. He established ABANS in 1982 along with other rationalist activists from India. He also runs his YouTube channel...

due to the lifelong favor of a god or goddess in a monotheistic or polytheistic religion. Many superstitions are related to luck, though these are often...

India. In 1989 he founded and became president of the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti (MANS, Committee for Eradication of Superstition in Maharashtra)...

Foundation, has done much social work. Aghori Global Baba, a 2016 movie Superstition in India James G. Lochtefeld (2002). The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism:...

nationalist Robert Wilson Lynd published an article, "A Defence of Superstition", in the October 1921 edition of the New Statesman, a British liberal political...

are the subject of myth, legend, and superstition. They are often associated with witches and good or bad luck in European folklore. The Cat Fanciers'...

A superstition is "a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation" or...

Look up jinx in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A jinx (also jynx), in popular superstition and folklore, is a curse or the attribute of attracting bad...

Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition. It occurs when the 13th day of the month in the Gregorian calendar falls on a Friday...

Chashme Baddoor (slogan) Evil eye Nazar (amulet) Superstition in India Stanley A. Wolpert, Encyclopedia of India, Volume 1, Charles Scribner & Sons, 2005, ISBN 9780684313498...

eye (or malocchio [maˈlɔkkjo] in Italian) and bad luck in general, and, historically, to promote fertility and virility. In Neapolitan, it is called curniciello...