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Distrustful attitude to the butterfly spread on the mole. These insects were called "ghosts", but not killed, so as not to inadvertently harm the spirit of a relative.... Moths, apparently, used this superstition to push responsibility for eaten wool harmless crickets.

Scottish children were divided butterflies into good and bad. The first category includes all the butterflies, except for the dark brown or spotted. Good butterflies were fed sugar, bad avoided, but afraid to kill.

Victoria, and why the party has still not entered?
- Somehow didn't. You moved from place to place, we are for you. The children were often sick.
- You have to party to take. There you quickly brains right. With your superstitions.

Before scientific research became Mature enough, people were unable to understand the nature of their relationship with the material world, so they invented their own explanations, which were uncomplicated, and sometimes harmful, as a result, religious rites, superstition, astroprognosis, numerology, clairvoyance and the like.

...the trouble is that the whole world - haltingly she continued, - that all people live in superstition and not science. He said that if all the more he studied science, then there would be the trouble fell on us.

Hard for us to fully get rid of superstitions - they are very much alive.

I already ordered Holgate. By the way, sir Charles, I beg your pardon, but perhaps it would be better for me to go to lunch today with them.
Sir Charles was obviously surprised, but said quite kindly:
- Of course, miss Milray, I'm very happy.. but.. um...
- Otherwise, sir Charles, the table will be thirteen, and you know how peculiar people's superstitions, - calmly explained to miss Milray.
This was said so that no one doubted - she-that miss Milray ready to fearlessly all my life, from day to day to sit down thirteen.

However, if superstition over and over again are justified, and it is not superstition at all, but the most that neither is true signs.

Hunger and poverty is the perfect breeding ground for superstitions. A superstitious man needs simple answers to any questions.

I'm not superstitious - but my guest predicts death.
Mourning plumage is mourning me.

In some countries it is believed that blue eyes bring bad luck, as behind them hides his true guise of the devil. However, if worn on a cord as the mascot of the "blue eye" glass bead-blue glass - it supposedly turns away from evil and sins, the rebound sending them to the person from whom they emanate. It is also believed that "blue eyes" is able to drive the demons back to their lair, and to his master to attract prosperity and good fortune...

We tend to think that human knowledge is progressive: as we know more and more, it must follow that our ancestors knew less than us, and grandparents even less. But most likely another theory: maybe we're just in different time learn things from different angles and in different ways. And it sheds new light on the whole mythology: myths are not dead, we just do them now differently understood and differently applied. If you think superstition is dead, visit some exam and see how many sorts of amulets and talismans dragging students.

In small towns always full of superstitions.

Superstition - the General weakness of the people in all ranks.