Are you superstitious? If you are how superstitious are you? Good? Bad? Indifferent?

[SWTXBelle]

Many superstitions actually are common sense - you don't want to walk under a ladder because you may knock it over, or something can fall (a can of paint, etc.) on your head. They are very rational - and even ones that don't seem to make much sense (sports players who have "lucky" underwear, shoes, etc.) actually are rational in the sense that they see a causal relationship (trying to recreate all the elements of a successful game.) When they become divorced from their origins they then appear irrational.

It is a fine line, too, between a superstition and a religious or cultural belief. Look at the superstitions that still persist in weddings - in the south, the bride is not supposed to practice going down the aisle at the rehearsal, for example. Throwing rice is a fertility superstition - and it goes on and on. Most people are, I think, somewhat superstitious. For all of our rationality, there is a part of us that wants to feel we have some control over the seeming chaos of our existence.