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Essay / It's hard not to get drawn into the folklore of...
Superstitions aren't just sayings, they're a part of life. You can believe in logic, but you still knock on wood, or you can pass a church on the highway and still make the sign of the cross, when you hear someone sneeze and tell them God bless you, or see a penny and pick it up. Some people were raised to believe in superstitions while others borrowed them from friends or teammates. . Superstitions are not just sayings, they are part of life. Regardless, whether you are a believer or not, it is difficult not to get drawn into the folklore of superstitions. There are many superstitions that we avoid on a daily basis, whether we know about it or not. It doesn't matter whether we believe in superstitions or not, we don't take the risk of breaking a mirror or going under a ladder, personally I don't believe in superstitions, but I found them interesting, I try to avoid it do, but I don't worry if it happens, for example breaking a mirror gives you 7 years of bad luck, this belief is because the mirror reflects your soul and it takes 7 years to rejuvenate the whole body, it is why it is said that you will have 7 years of bad luck, another superstition is to walk under a ladder, it is because it sleeps a triangle and it is said that by crossing it you can disturb the demons, it is for that you won't be lucky, I think the most important superstition says "God bless you" after someone sneezes, it is said that when you sneeze it's because you spell evil spirits , that's why they started saying "God bless you", it was thought that when someone sneezed their death was near, nowadays we say it to be polite, but in fact it's a another superstition. There are many ways to transmit superstitions; one way is to go through ...... middle of paper ...... a beautiful child, it is customary that she touches the child's head so that "Ojo" in this case nothing wrong does not happen to the child. When my fiance and I are in the most random places, stranger women sometimes ask him if they can touch his hair, when I think they're asking that, I think they're asking who does his hair, but that's a form of superstations ojo that the Beauty of the hair does not fall. You may think that superstitions are different in some families, cultures, countries, but it doesn't matter if your family believes or not, or if in your culture there are different superstitions, after knowing other people's culture or superstitions. people, you will get caught. Even if you don't believe in superstitions, you will still avoid your bad or good luck by following superstitions, not breaking a mirror, not walking under a ladder, maybe with a 4 leaf clover, etc...