AN EXPOSITION
Gieanne Malimban
III Lavoisier
Superstitions are beliefs or practices for which there appears to be no rational substance. It is from the Latin word superstitio, which means "standing over." In Latin it is used as an unreasonable or excessive belief in fear or magic, especially foreign or fantastical ideas. This also means a "cult" in the Roman Empire which is a belief or notion, not based on reason or knowledge.
Superstitions are beliefs that result from ignorance and fear of the unknown. Ignorance of natural causes leads to the belief that certain striking phenomena express the will or the anger of some invisible overruling power, and the objects in which such phenomena appear are forthwith deified, as example, in Nature-worship. Conversely, many superstitious practices are due to an exaggerated notion or a false interpretation of natural events, so that effects are required which are beyond the efficiency of physical causes. Curiosity also with regard to things that are hidden or are still in the future plays a considerable part. With this qualification in mind, superstitions may be classified roughly as religious, cultural and personal.
Nearly all persons, in nearly times, have held, seriously, irrational beliefs concerning methods of warding off ill or bringing good, foretelling the future, and healing and preventing sickness and accidents. Superstitions have been deeply influential in history. Even in so-called modern times, in a day when objective evidence is highly valued, there are few people who would not, if pressed, admit to cherishing secretly one or two irrational beliefs or superstitions. Such superstitious ideas persist not withstanding the evidence which oppose their validity.
Superstitions are beliefs that result from ignorance and fear of the unknown. Ignorance of natural causes leads to the belief that certain striking phenomena express the will or the anger of some invisible overruling power, and the objects in which such phenomena appear are forthwith deified, as example, in Nature-worship. Conversely, many superstitious practices are due to an exaggerated notion or a false interpretation of natural events, so that effects are required which are beyond the efficiency of physical causes. Curiosity also with regard to things that are hidden or are still in the future plays a considerable part. With this qualification in mind, superstitions may be classified roughly as religious, cultural and personal.
Nearly all persons, in nearly times, have held, seriously, irrational beliefs concerning methods of warding off ill or bringing good, foretelling the future, and healing and preventing sickness and accidents. Superstitions have been deeply influential in history. Even in so-called modern times, in a day when objective evidence is highly valued, there are few people who would not, if pressed, admit to cherishing secretly one or two irrational beliefs or superstitions. Such superstitious ideas persist not withstanding the evidence which oppose their validity.
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