Superstitions
(By- Khushi Relan)
Back
in my home country India, people believe in some senseless things and take it
really seriously. For example, they say don’t cut your nails at night, don’t
get your hair cut on Tuesday, don’t wash your hair on Thursday, don’t cross a
road if a black cat already crossed your way, don’t sweep your floor at night
and so on. And to my surprise, I unknowingly followed these things and maybe I
still do. Many people don’t really call themselves superstitious, but they still
say ‘Bless You’ when somebody sneezes. Why do we say it? It is believed that
our ancestors used to think that devil tries to steal their soul during a
sneeze, so they started saying ‘Bless You’ to protect themselves. People
unknowingly are superstitious, like some buildings won’t have a 13th
floor. I can confidently say that because I have seen it. Like my mother she
believed that 13 was a very unlucky number. She always tried to change it, but
we always ended up facing it. For example, we got our American visa, both of
the times on counter number 13, our flight was on 13th December,
Friday. We tried to change it but we just couldn’t. Number 13 never brought us
bad luck, it always brought us something good.
Recently
I watched a documentary on Netflix named, “House of Secrets: The Burari
deaths”. 11 members of the same family committed suicide on the same night
because they believed in something that scientifically could never happen. But
they aren’t the only people who lost their lives because of it. There are so
many variations of superstitions, that even if we want to, we can never get rid
of them. It is something that disturbs me a lot, because I know there are a lot
of people out there who are sacrificing themselves for literally nothing.
https://theconversation.com/the-science-of-superstition-and-why-people-believe-in-the-unbelievable-97043
Black
Magic
or
Witchcraft.
(By-
Khushi Relan)
People in so many
countries like India believe and perform so many types of worshipping for
superstitious purposes. There are so many people who’ll kill people just
because a fake priest, a black magic priest would tell them that killing a
number of people would bring them salvation, success or happiness. Like I
mentioned a documentary before, ‘House of Secrets: the Burari deaths’, the main
reason why they took a huge step to suicide was because the person (one of
their family members) whom they trusted the most and found him extremely smart,
told them to commit suicide with him. From my POV, he needed help because he
was mentally ill. But many people in India would find it a shame to ask for
help while suffering from depression, so no one took a step to help him. Before
dying, all of them did a worship, which was apparently for their dead father.
He believed that he could talk to his dead father and it was his (their dead
father) idea to perform that superstitious ritual and suicide, and everyone
believed it, no questions asked. All of them believed that they weren’t
actually going to die because their dead father would come and save them. So
ironic!
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