Step on a crack and break your mama’s back, break a mirror and you’ll have seven years of bad luck.
These and others are just some of the many superstitions that are said by many and heard by all.
“I don’t believe that if you break a mirror you’ll have bad luck for seven years or even if you step on a crack you’ll break your mama’s back. I usually have good luck when I break a mirror,” said Calvin Mitchell, a freshman majoring in performing arts from Hammond. “Bad luck doesn’t occur and people have cracks in their feet and their mother’s back isn’t broken, so what’s the difference from the cracks on the ground. That’s all in your head.”
A superstition is defined as an irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome.
“I think superstitions provide a good conversation piece, their fun to listen to and talk about but they really don’t hold any validity,” said Desherick Williams, a sophomore majoring in criminal justice from Dallas.
Dreaming of fish is believed to signify that someone is pregnant, as many have seen in the movie “Soul Food.” In the movie big momma said that she dreamed of fish last night and wanted to know who was pregnant. Later in the movie the character bird, played by Nia Long found out that she was pregnant.
“Dreaming of fishes does signify someone is pregnant because every time my mother dreams of fish one of my friends pop up pregnant,” said Samantha Cyprian, a junior majoring in psychology from West Palm Beach, Fla.
Another superstition says if your right hand itches that you are getting some money and if your left hand itches you should expect a letter.
“I think that it’s funny that people believe in superstitions. Because if your right hand is itching and you thought that you were getting money, then someone gave you a hundred dollars, you wouldn’t think twice about your right hand itching,” said Dionne Allen, a sophomore majoring in psychology from LaPlace.
Even though many feel that superstitions are true, a lot of individuals still don’t know the true meaning of it. Greg Pipkins, a junior majoring in English from Cincinnati said, “I feel that superstitions have to have some basis in reality.
They have to come from somewhere otherwise; they would have never been made up in the first place. In most cases, they are simply an instance or situation that has been generalized unnecessarily to an entire population. But they do initially come from somewhere.”
Some may feel that superstitions are false and some even believe that there true, but after all is said and done only you can be the judge of that.
