Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Superstitions
Jim, Tom, Huck, the townspeople, and others in the story of Huck Finn rely on superstitions. In modern day, some people equate superstitions with religious fervor and fanaticism while others rely on superstitions more as a way to calm themselves or as a tradition in a sense. Discuss some aspect of superstitious behavior either historically or currently, generally or personally. Be sure to give SPECIFIC examples and edit your work in order to earn full credit.
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I personally am not very superstitious. I have even opend an umbrella indoors on friday the 13th in order to prove a point, but there has always been one superstition that I always do. I always lift my feet over railroad tracks. Sometimes I even do it subconsciously. It can get very irritating, but do it anyway.
I am not superstitious, I actually forget most of the superstitions. Most superstition is really, if you look back to its traces, as truthful as saying "If your hand is smaller than you face you have a disease." The were more popular in the south because of the religious point of views. Historically the people that believe in superstition are usually easily fooled.
Well historically, superstitious behavior can be seen in the Blair Witch Trials in Salem Massachusetts. The townspeople believed that they were witches so they killed them. Current superstitious behavior is "shattering a mirror will cause bad luck" or "opening an umbrella inside a house". Personally i am not superstitious but some people so believe in it.
I don't believe in any superstitions, or at least I don't let any of the stuff that I heard as a kid get into my head. Things like walking a ladder or stepping on a crack in a sidewalk are just things kids said to play games. I don't know of anyone who really believes that stuff. One of the false beliefs in religion, or at least my religion, that I don't believe in is confession. I just don't think that unless I confess my sins to a priest, I won't be forgiven for them. I think the wrongthings I might do are between me, my conscious, and God. I don't think confessing them to a person I don't know will make me more forgiven of them. If I feel bad and try not to do them again, I think that's more important.
I am not superstitious. I find it to be a hassle and kind of ridiculous. The number 13 how is it unlucky? Its not otherwise the letter B should be unlucky. It just looks like a scrunched together 13. So hey i just started a new superstition B is unlucky. Whats your name? Bob. Stay away!
This was just a way for me to prove that being superstitious is just dumb. But hey if you need that to cope with yourself by all means go right ahead.
Even though my parents and grandperents tell me to believe in some of the superstitions, I never did and never will believe in most of them. I guess I'm just in different generation now. Back then people were different and believed in magic, witches and stuff. For examle this book Crucible. Where people were hangin each other thinking that there were witches living in their town. But now most of the people take it as a joke.
I dont believe in superstitions much, but because most of the characters in Huck Finn, are located in the south, well all of them are, they are more likely to be very religious. So a superstion may be if it thunderstorms, Jesus is mad and is trying to punish them for something they did.
For the most part, i am not superstitious, although i do knock on wood, even when i know it won't help. Superstition is just a way to help you think that doing something will help you from being jinxed.
The only superstitious thing i do is knock on wood so i don't jinx myself. I don't like Friday the 13th, just because it scares me a little. Being superstitious is a personal thing and i think it has to do with how gullible someone is.
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