Breaking away from superstitions

Twisted Tale

Follow it without questioning, we all did it, just do it. This not so sound piece of

advice, has been blindly brought down through generations. Despite the illogical explanations,
superstitions have comfortably embedded themselves in our culture.

Common to all our ears is the infamous: black cat crossing your path bringing bad omen, a mirror breaking and you’re doomed to have bad luck for seven years, cutting your nails at night might invite evil spirits! Was it an over-active imagination that brought about these beliefs? Or did the old wives, who had nothing better to do, cook up tales to frighten generations ever after?

The generation gap sees extremes of opinions about superstitions; Sunaina, a mother of a teenager, said “These superstitions have been followed for years, and have stood the test of time. Coincidence or not, they have worked for the better.” Opposing this, her own daughter Ritansha said, “It’s silly and I don’t see why I should follow something so disjointed from reality.”

Natives all around the world nurture certain myths. In India, a number of people still have strong faith in the local beliefs. With many aspects of life linked to these beliefs, only few are interesting while others seem like a joke. Some of the superstitions even find their way into the Indian religious texts and scriptures.

Although, we humans tend to believe that everything is connected or related in some manner or the other, permeating through science and superstition, the belief is that there must be — and is — a connection between everything in the universe. However, without the proof of factual backing, superstitions are more often than not disregarded as an unimportant grandmother’s myth.

So now are you going to continue to turn your back on a black cat or stroll past the feline with courage? If you choose to do the latter and the repercussions are negative, we bet that you are going to hear your grandmother’s voice ring in your head mockingly saying: “I told you so, I told you so!”