Do you believe in superstitions?

A lot of times I am superstitious like about the black cat but sometimes it's our faith that we should believe in more than the fear of superstitions. Some would say that there's no harm in believing but it's not good if this would affect your faith.

The Bible says we should not believe on these things. We should trust God instead and live by faith. God is not pleased when we don't trust Him.

I have heard most of the superstitions that you speak of but that is all they are.

I come from a religious family but there are still some superstitions that they have. One similar to you New Years one is that it is bad luck to start the New Years with any dirty clothes in your house. I feel it is sometimes hard to get rid of superstitions that you have grown up believing in and seeing your parents believe in as well. Sometimes the superstitions become part of a countries culture and separating from them can feel like separating from culture for some.

I too grew up in a home where my family was very superstitious. Like if you knock over the salt shaker you better hurry & throw some over your shoulder or you will have bad luck. Same as if you walk under a ladder or open an umbrella in the house. None of this is true. This is just something that our parent's parents did & so of course they passed it onto us. Just to prove my point I purposely did each one of these things just to prove that there is no such thing as bad luck. I've walked under a ladder, knocked over the salt shaker many times, owned a black cat for a few years, & even went so far as to open & close my umbrella inside the house more then once. Guess what? I've lived to tell the tale. Nothing bad happened to me or the ones I love. Bad things just sometimes happen to all sorts of people. It has nothing at all to do with luck, good or bad!

I kind of believe some of the superstitions, and I've heard many, besides the owl and the umbrella thing, since I live in a culture with many people believing in those sayings, too. Some of our townfolks even go to fortune-tellers for help when they are in trouble, to see whether things can be fixed or not, or whether they have a good outcome. As for my attitude, I'm holding in awe and veneration to those old sayings, since they are forebears' experiences and are passed down from generation to generation. There must be something worth respect. However, as many people say, if you believe it, you'd better observe the rules not to bring out bad fortune; if you don't, do whatever you want. So dear Sukeena, don't let it overcontrol your mind and behavior. Take it easy, life is under your control. Always. You can choose to live under it, or live with it. Good luck!:)

For some reason I am superstitious only about a full moon - I do think it makes people a little crazy. But that is the only one, perhaps because I was raised to believe it to be true. Who knows!

I do believe that there are superstitions all over the world, however, 90% of these so called superstitions are actual phenomena that do exist but science has no explanation for that.

I have a charm i wear all the time and it brought me a lot of luck...it was bad luck but still luck. To answer your question, i don`t believe in superstitions.

like they say, there is no harm in practicing most superstitions. It's been part of the culture but if u believe it may be the other way around, then I guess there is no harm in not doing so. ;-)

I don't believe in superstitions. A person doesn't die because a dog howled on somebody's porch, IMO. But for some people it's a way of life and a right to believe what you want. I respect that, just as it's my right to not give credence to superstitions. The scariest superstition I ever heard was from a friends' mother when I was a teenager. Her mother told her not to look in the mirror at night before she went to bed because it would allow the devil to come out of the mirror. I believe in the Bible to a certain point. I generally take things with a grain of salt.

I am not superstitious, and I don't believe in most superstitions. Although some superstitious beliefs that can be explained logically I give a chance just to be on the safe side. For example, the belief passed on by my grandma that one shouldn't sleep on a wet hair because it can cause blindness. When in fact sleeping on a wet hair can give you the chill, make your back wet thereby making you susceptible to colds. Like that.

Anything you believe and happened beyond logic is superstitious. I knew a little of some people beliefs and usually I do observed for it really happened but really not all. I don't know if it was only a coincidence. But nothing bad if sometimes we observed. In the first place, our very own observations of what might happened is still the best.

I am not superstitious but some old wives tales are spot on so I guess it depends.

Good discussion you started since I have exactly the same question(s). I know all kind of believes and I can't understand how people who claim to believe in god can be supersticious but also have so less faith that everything will be fine, that they are seldom that shiny and happy. I also don't understand why many of them are so less active to change their life and just sit there and wait for better times. I also noticed that in cultures where religion was "introduced" later (Africa for example) the way people believe is way different from ours. Still they als have their old believes next to the new believe (being a christian or muslim). So they carry a lot of Lucky charms with them although they claim to be a christian or muslim. It all just doesn't make sense to me. I don't believe in the bible, it's a book written by human beings and also in the bible there are old traditions (not of this time anymore), is written in an old style (you have to read in between the lines) and there is plenty of supersticion in it. This besideds of the fact that many christions did introduce/took over habits of the earlier believes. I am not against it but do think everybody should be aware of that. The sober life of a christian has nothing to do with Santa Claus, a Christmas tree, the pope and all those expensive churches and statues of holy people. BTW I do think that a part of the "supersticions" are not supersticions at all but more "old wisedom" a part of it is true. But also church introduced a lot of "new" supersticions to keep the people live in fear and depend on the church. And what you hear as a kid turns into a kind of habit and you will raise your children exactly the same way, with the same behaviour or sayings.