Superstitions and Old Wives’Tales have been around since time immemorial. Superstitions are seen as beliefs with no logical or sound foundation and Old Wives’Tales, once based in truth, are now considered merely unproven, time-honored beliefs. Read on to find out if some of your beliefs might actually fall under the categories of Superstitions or Old Wives’ Tales. Following a description of each is a list of some of the more popular Superstitions and Old Wives’ Tales.

What Are Superstitions?

Some of the superstitions we hold are just for fun (e.g. an itchy palm means you’ll have luck or you have money coming your way) while others can be so deep-seated that they affect the way a person lives his or her life. For example, the superstition that if a person doesn’t get out of the bed on the same side he or she got in on, they will suffer bad luck, could lead to a compulsive need to always get into and out of bed on the same side. Why tempt fate?

Superstition can be defined as a belief in  supernatural or mystical causes for certain events or occurrences. In other words, certain things happen (good luck or bad luck) because of some uncanny, unexplainable, magical intervention, events or occurrences that could be described as nothing short of miraculous because there was no other way of explaining them. During the “Age of Enlightenment in the 1700s, Christian doctrine scorned belief in miracles, reducing them to superstitions and equating belief in miracles with belief in magic, which was considered sinful. In fact the Catechism of the Catholic Church deems superstition to sinful because it demonstrates a lack of faith in Divine Providence, which breaks the First Commandment.

While some superstitions may be suggest or represent religious practices (Voodoo for instance), most apply to views and customs about good or bad luck, the prophesying on the prospects of things that will happen based on previous events that are totally unconnected, and to spiritual beings.

A List of Superstitions

Bad Luck

·         Friday, the 13th, an unlucky day

·         The number 13

·         Breaking a mirror, which brings bad luck for 7 years

·         Black cats crossing one’s path

·         Walking under a ladder

·         Opening an umbrella inside a house or building

·         Singing at the table

·         Sleeping on a table

·         A bird coming in the window

·         Refusing to kiss under the Mistletoe

·         Goldfish in the house

·         Chasing someone with a broom

·         Dropping a dishcloth

·         Getting out of bed on a different side than you got in on

·         Rocking an empty rocking chair

·         killing an albatross brings bad luck to a ship as well as its crew and passengers

·         Wearing an opal when it’s not your birthstone

·         Giving someone a  purse or wallet without placing some money in it

·         It is bad luck to leave a house through a different door than one you entered through

Reversing Bad Luck

·         Turn 7 times in a clockwise circle

·         Crossing your fingers

·         Standing in a circle protects you from harm

·         Knocking twice on wood

Protection

·         Garlic protects from vampires

·         Wedding veils protect brides

Good Luck

·         An itchy palm

·         finding a horseshoe

·         Tossing salt over your shoulder

·         Saying “God Bless You” after a sneeze

·         Rabbit’s foot

·         Finding a 4-leaf clover

·         Fate is written in the stars

·         Wearing clothes inside out

·         Wearing your birthstone

·         Beginners always have good luck

·         A cricket in the house

·         Lock of hair from baby’s first hair cut

·         Gold fish in a pond

·         Wearing new clothes on Easter

·         Finding a penny and picking it up

Money and Wishes

·         There’s a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow

·         Blowing out the birthday candles in one breath means you’ll get your wish

·         When breaking a wishbone, the person with the larger piece gets his or her wish

·         Itchy palms mean money

The Prospect of Things to Come Based on Unconnected Events

·         An apple a day keeps the doctor away

·         If you step on a crack, you’ll break your mother’s back

·         Eating fish will make you smart

·         Toads cause warts

·         When the soles of your feet itch, you’ll be taking a trip

·         If a dog howls, a death will occur

·         A sailor who wears a gold earring can’t drown

·         Animals can talk at midnight on Christmas Eve

·         Dropping a fork means a woman will visit, dropping a knife means a man will visit, and dropping a spoon means a child will visit

·         Shivering means someone is casting a shadow on your grave

·         A bride wearing something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue during the wedding ceremony guarantees a happy marriage.

·         Washing a car guarantees it will rain

·         Planning a picnic or other outdoors outings requiring a sunny day will also guarantee rain.

·         Warm hands mean a cold heart, whereas cold hands mean a warm heart

What Are Old Wives Tales?

In the olden days, way before modern technology and modern medicine evolved into what it is today, women were the keepers of medical wisdom which was passed on from generation to generation. Women – especially the Old Wives who were the town’s mothers, grandmothers, midwives and healers – were responsible for delivering babies, healing sick family members and neighbors, were considered experts in nutrition, experts in children, folk medicine, herbs and even death.

Many of the Old Wives’ Tales developed from the wealth of their experience. Some of the Old Wives’ Tales, though were based in superstition, such as the Tale that eating bread crusts would make your  hair curly. Many Old Wives’Tales developed from folk cures for every day ailments (toothaches, colds), or were aimed at teaching about things like deathand natural life changes (explaining pregnancy to kids, beginning of menstruation, or menopause), or to teach children about which behaviors to avoid by associating those behaviors with dire consequences (if you touch a toad you’ll get warts).

Whole books could be written about the Old Wives’ Tales concerning pregnancy (e.g. if you carry the baby high it’s a girl, but if you carry it low it’s a boy). There are way too many pregnancy related Old Wives’ Tales to go into here, but some of the other aspects of life still offer up some really intriguing examples. When reading through this list, you may discover that many of these Old Wives’ Tales sound suspiciously like superstitions.

A List of Old Wives Tales

·         Eating bread crusts will make your hair curly

·         Don’t swallow gum  because it takes seven years to digest

·         Plucking one gray hair means two more will grow back in its place

·         Touching toads gives you warts

·         Don’t swim for an hour after eating, or you’ll get stomach cramps

·         Eating carrots improves eyesight

·         Eating chocolate cause acne

·         Carrying an acorn will bring good luck and long life.

·         Placing acorns on the windowsill will keep lightning out of the house.

·         Ring bells provide protection from demons because the noise scares them.

·         If the first calf born during the winter is white, then the winter will be particular severe.

·         Itchy or ringing right ear means someone is saying something nice about you, while if it occurs in the left ear, someone is saying something bad.

·         Cutting fingernails on Friday or Sunday is bad luck.

·         Save, burn or bury fingernails clippings to prevent bad luck.

·         Anyone dying on Good Friday will go straight to Heaven.

·         Hanging a horseshoe above a door  brings good luck to whomever lives there.

·         Don’t hang a horseshoe upside down, or all the luck will run out.

·         If your nose itches it means (1) a fool is going to kiss you, (2) you will get a visitor – the right nostril means a female visitor and the left nostril means a male visitor.

·         Jogging is bad for you because it jumbles up your insides.

·         Inserting knitting needs into a ball of yarn brings bad luck to the person who uses the item made from that yarn.

·         Catching a falling leaf on the first day of autumn guarantees you won’t get sick all winter.

·         When boiling milk, don’t let it run over the side of the pan or it’ll bring bad luck.

·         Wishes made over burning onions will come true.

·         Using the same pencil for studying and taking tests will ensure good grades, because the pencil remembers the answers.

·         Dropping a pair of scissors means your lover is seeing another behind your back.

·         Dropping an umbrella on the floor of a house means that someone in that house will soon die.

·         Knocking on wood 3 times keeps evil spirits from stealing your good luck.

·         The number of times that the lines on your palms form an “X” indicates the number of children you will have.

·         The number of ribbons a bride breaks when opening her wedding gifts indicates the number of children she will have.

·         Covering your mouth when yawning, prevents the soul from leaving your body.

·         Walking around in bare feet will give you worms.

·         Wearing shoes will help a baby learn to walk faster.

·         If a woman who’s just given birth gets caught in the rain, she will catch a “baby cold” which will cause her death and leave her baby motherless.

·         Hold your breath when driving by a cemetery or you will breathe in the spirit of someone who recently died and was buried there.

·         If the eyes of a dead person are left open, he or she will find someone to take with them.

·         Cranberry juice keeps your kidneys and urinary tract healthy and either fights or prevents urinary tract infections.

·         Don’t cross your eyes, they’ll stuck that way.

·         Telling lies will (1) make your nose grow longer, (2) cause a pimple on your tongue, (3) cause a sore on your lips.

·         Don’t drop a needle, you might step on it and get an infection.

·         Feed a cold and starve a fever.

·         Starve a cold and feed a fever.

(I’ll leave it to you to decide which one those to follow.)

·         If you go outside with a wet head, you’ll catch a cold.

·         Cracking your knuckles will cause arthritis.

·         Covering your mouth when sneezing will prevent your soul from escaping

·         Spicy foods cause ulcers

·         Watching too much TV or sitting too close to the TV will make you blind.

·         A watched pot never boils.

If you want to read on about pregnancy related Old Wives’ Tales, check out this website:

List of 51 pregnancy old wives tales: Your baby’s sex revealed!

http://www.hisboyscanswim.com/658/list-of-51-pregnancy-old-wives-tales-your-babys-sex-revealed

Resources

Travis, Wendy. Life Script. 10 Common Superstitions.

http://www.lifescript.com/soul/spirit/beliefs/10_common_superstitions.aspx?gclid=CITPj4C9h68CFVO9tgodwBCpBQ&trans=1&du=1&ef_id=3FdOP%40Ng%40mMAAExE%3a20120327161628%3as

Wikipedia. Superstition.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition

Wikipedia. Old Wives’ Tale.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_wives%27_tale

The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Common Superstitions.

http://www.csicop.org/superstition/library/common_superstitions/

Ford, Allison. Divine Caroline. Old Wives’ Tales: Fact or Fiction?

http://www.divinecaroline.com/22360/72592-wives-tales-fact-folklore

The Longest List of the Longest Stuff at the Longest Domain Name at Long Last. The A-Z of Old Wives’ Tales.

http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/tales110.html

For the foods, we can’t eat foods that came from plants that crawl.  We can’t roast foods.  We can’t transport food and things from the place of the wake to another house. Once food and other things are brought to the house of the dead, these things must remain there until the dead is buried.  And there are still others which I can’t anymore remember as of this time.

We just can’t say that these are true but it’s only God who knows everything and it’s only Him whom we shall believe.

It’s crazy, some people may call it. I have my fair share of considering that superstitions don’t make sense because they have no scientific evidence. I guess it is crazier to simply ignore them. Those beliefs came out for some reasons. Some things in life are complicated enough for our mind to easily accept and understand. A lot of people claim to have experienced or observed them. True or not, it is something worth our respect. Here are 20 of the most famous Filipino superstitions that are rarely heard or practiced today:

1. Eating chicken on New Year’s Day or during birthdays is discouraged. It will make you poor and live like a chicken the whole year. I don’t think it is true but I used to avoid eating chicken on my birthdays for the same reason. Instead I would eat noodles for a longer life.

2. Whatever you do on the New Year’s Day will determine what you will do the entire year.

3. It is not good to take pictures in 3s or 13s; otherwise the one at the center will die.

4. Sweeping the floor at night brings bad luck.

5. Whistling in the evening is considered a curse for someone to die. Sometimes it is considered a call for the bad spirits.

6. Breaking a mirror means bad luck.

7. The visitor should not stand at the door of a house with pregnant woman inside.

8. Sleeping after taking a bath will result blindness. Oh I have done this many times.

9. A menstruating woman is not allowed to take a bath or else she will become crazy.

10. After circumcision, a boy should not step on a mortar or pestle or go near tomatoes. His wounds will get worse.

11. Circumcision should be done during low tide. Doing it during high tide will increase the flow of blood.

12. Extracted teeth should be placed in between strong foundation. It will make the teeth strong, too.

12. Sore eyes can be cured by washing with the first urine early in the morning.

13. Parents who make fun of those who have physical disabilities will have children with similar disabilities.

14. Parents who eat conjoined fruits will bear conjoined twins.

15. Brides are not allowed to try their wedding dress before the wedding day or the wedding will not push through.

16. A lingering black butterfly is a sign of death of a relative.

17. Having a dream of falling teeth means death of a family member.

18. A person with mole on his foot is considered a wanderer. Those with mole on the hands are considered creative.

19. Those with big ears will have long life.

20. Taking a bath at night with cause anemia.

   ”Team work give workers the changing room facade bathroom upstairs, when he found mummified cat built into one wall. It is really a discovery that anyone comes freezing blood, especially the cat mummy looks scary and has a waist bigger than today’s cats, “said British press, Richard Parsons, director of a funeral company and the owner of the house that .

 
Marion Gibson, medieval witchcraft and folklore expert in English at the University of Exeter, said that cats were the walls of the houses built by people who believed in those days so attract luck and prosperity in their own homes, while keeping away bad luck , evil eye, curse witches and evil spirits present. This strange practice was prevalent in the British Isles 400 years ago, when the cat mummy from Devon but representing a particular situation because experts say they have found the mummy in a state of perfect preservation.

“Made Snana”, which literally means “bathing on leftovers,” is one of those blind superstitions. It is a kind of bathing by rolling on the leftovers on plantain leaves, left by the Brahmins. It is believed that this rolling on leftovers can heal many skin diseases. This is said to be a tribal ritual 1,500-year old, still alive among the people in Karnataka State, in South India. Recently this ritual has become the subject of fierce debate, demanding ban or continuation.

“Bathing on leftovers” is believed to cure skin diseases

“Bathing on leftovers” is an annual ritual performed at Champa Shasti festival, held in December at the Kukke Subramanya temple in Karnataka. This temple exists on a hill at a distance of 110 kilometers away from Mangalore. The festival is conducted by people of a tribe called Malekudiyas. Champa Shasti festival is celebrated for three days. Most important ritual of the festival is serving meals to Shivalli Brahmins in the temple premises. The caste of the Brahmins is supposed to be the highest caste. They are supposed to be given preference in the society. They would be served dinner during the temple festival. The Brahmins are expected to eat and leave some food as leftover on the plantain leaves, on which they are served meals. When the Brahmins leave the dining hall, the low caste people would enter and roll on the leftovers on the plantain leaves.

Rolling on the leftover on the plantain leaves is believed to cure skin-related diseases. People  believe that this ritual fulfills the “wish” of the deity who grants cure.

Why do people want to continue this ritual?

Devotees say that the ritual gives them strength. VS Acharya, the state higher education minister of Karnataka, is a strong supporter of this traditional ritual. He says that the ritual can produce antibodies and help improve health. (Unfortunately this minister passed awy recently.)
Indian people believe that most of the skin diseases are caused by some reptile poison which is generally called “Nagadosha.” It is interesting to note that, after the ritual, many people get relief from their skin afflictions. People who got cured include some popular stars of the country.

Voice against the ritual of “Made Snana”

Recent years have seen the call for banning this controversial practice. Intellectuals demand to ban the ritual, saying that it is inhuman. Few weeks ago, heads of some Hindu religious institutions across Karnataka state condemned this ritual. They ask if this ritual can cure diseases of skin or skin cancer.

Although the government of Karnataka State had banned this ritual, it had to revoke the ban recently due to the pressure from devotees. Caste is a cruel system in India. Public awareness has to be created among the public about the ritual. Then only selfish people will not dare to exploit the downtrodden.

Superstition is an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear. superstition, a virtual entity we all are following in some way. sometimes peoples become ov

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erdosed partially or wholly.in my memories from childhood i can count on fingers the number of moments where i have seen peoples belief on such superstitions, i remember how a small crossover  of a cat on road made people worried and horrify them too.

i have seen how people halt their important journey only because of the “dimnished light” which is lit recently. one reason must have been the fear of losing valuables, (like a small gold earring).these spicious sings and symbols made the nerves thrives of the invinduals who believe them blindly.

Their are occassion when i have heard asupicious omen to like Dream of running: a sign of a big change in your life. If you catch a falling leaf on the first day of autumn you will not catch a cold all winter.

With so many thoughts pooped into my mind. some times i think. Do superstitions decimate a person intellect and attitude?then answering myself thats……….

 it is illitracy and that can decimate a persons intellect and attitude….no everybody has some type of simple superstitions .main thing is that they should not be overpwering the person to much to the extent that he and his attitude. If such education is overwhelmed by superstitions, the person concerned has not earned the advantages of education. Thus superstitions affecting the intellect.

The very first time because 84, these a couple of Friday your own 13ths : right this moment, 04 Tough luck and Come july 1st Thirteen — are generally specifically Difficult luck a few months an important part.

A few Friday your current 13ths occur every single number of years. The very last was from 09, and this band are brilliant actually 2015. What is really particular with regards to 2012 : and precisely what will not likely take place again right up until 2040 * is actually niagra is happening after having a phase yr.

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Friday the specific Thirteenth is a real problem to prospective customers at risk of superstitions — they generally commit the actual early morning searching for bad signs and omens and postpone outings. Based on the Anxiety Operations Centre and Dread Begin inside Asheville, Vermont, almost Seventeen so that you can Twenty one thousand people the united states have problems with anxiousness while today.

You will find inconsistent accounts about the probability of incidents about Friday the specific Thirteenth.

This Nederlander Heart regarding Insurance Numbers (Cv’s) about 06 A dozen, ‘08, explained that your lower amount of accidental injuries and evaluations with regards to fire and thieves occur if your Thirteenth through the thirty day period comes on the Friday when compared with additional Fridays, because individuals tend to be preventatively more careful or possibly work.

A whole new 1993 study in the Uk Health treatment Firewood that when when compared the number of visitors situations in between Friday this Sixth and Friday the actual Thirteenth, pointed out that there is a substantial increase in traffic-related incidents upon Fridays the particular 13th.

Worries with regards to Friday, this 13th possesses his own technological determine — paraskavedekatriaphobia, a thing produced by your own concatenation in the Ancient greek language terms Paraskeví (this means Friday), and dekatreís (which means challenging luck), attached to phobía (meaning get worried).

Based on folklorists, there’s no produced data to get a “Friday the actual 13th” superstition prior to the 19th hundred years, nonetheless, some traditions can be shifted by way of dental customs.

A particular idea boasts it’s actually a modern-day combinations with regards to several elderly superstitions: which 13 is undoubtedly an regrettable amount and that Friday is usually an unfortunate early morning.

In numerology, the phone amount 12 is definitely the amount of completeness, simply because looked like inside one year of the season, 12 warning signs of the actual indian native zodiac, A dozen several hours from the time clock, a dozen tribes connected with Israel, twelve Apostles involving Christ, twelve gods concerning Olympus, and so forth., whilst the product number tough good fortune ended up deemed unpredictable, transgressing these kinds of completeness.

There’s even a superstition, regarded as by having a variety of in order to be a result of the past Evening meal or even a Norse fable, that having Tough luck men and ladies resting in a cubical may lead to the certain loss of life of merely one from your diners.

Friday is becoming thought to be the sad time at very least given that Fourteen century’s The particular Canterbury Reports, and a great many other occupations get considered Friday as a possible unlucky early morning to try journeys as well as start brand-new duties. Dark-colored Friday may be linked with trading game accidents and other concerns as the 1800s. They have been offered in which Friday had been the afternoon that will Christ was crucified.

Nevertheless, one more concept by way of author Charles Panati, one of the main professionals with regards to “Origins” retains that superstition may be traced time for old misunderstanding.

Other individuals have the superstitions useful resource throughout 1307, during Friday, March Tough luck, people from france Learn Philip 4 concerns an investment on the removing through the Knights throughout struggle Templar Purchase, who have been faced with many sins, including witchcraft. The web link involving the superstition and the specific Knights in battle inside fight Templar ended up made popular within 2004 clean The particular Nrrr Vinci Program code involving writer Dan Darkish.

Recent surveys show folks dwindle and much less superstitious and dependent upon this mistakenly as well as actually charged Friday.

Filipino sub-urban superstition tells us that, during New Year, fruits of different kinds and smells are necessary to display on the tables on the New Year’s Day. The concept is really to believe that Filipino people would do this for abundance and prosperity for the next year and onwards. It is said that preparing these fruits on the 31st of December may bring a myriad of luck for the coming years. Also, it is said that round shape fruits must be displayed because they symbolize money or simply the coin plates of currency. It is funny to think then that people rely on the superstitions in which they never understand other things except the luck given out and informed with that superstition. Indeed, it is only a superstition and it is out of the truth.

Though this superstition is quite comical, there is nothing to worry about it. It may be good or better and bad or worse. The preparation of round shape fruits has nothing to do with our luck or success. The concept maybe of preparing fruits during New Year’s Day is simply a Thanksgiving to God to the whole year round. It shows that the blessings are presented through the food displays and through inviting people and friends to come for the New Year’s Day.

Finally, I would like to remind that round shape fruits have nothing to do with anything else in luck and in success. The luck and success can be achieved through hard labor and diligence towards work plus prayer to the Almighty Father who is the Source of life and the Giver of everything. In contrast, I did not say I go against with this superstition because there is no wrong with it. What I say is this. If you display everything just like those – round shape fruits, you need to work and improve also your jobs with prayer to God. That is the key, and not on the round shapes of the fruits found in the fruit stands.

Now the question is: how far India has progressed in terms of the changed mindset brought about by the above leaders? Today we have an enlightened society that welcomes foreign direct investment (FDI), modern technology in science and medicine, western outfits, music, pizzas, and internet connectivity. In other words, we live in a globalised world where caste, race, religion, and gender are no longer the hot topics of discussion in our daily life. In this scenario, let us take note of what happened at Kukke Subrahmanya on 28th, 29th and 30th of November 2011.

Kukke Subrahmanya Temple: Karnataka.

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Kukke Subrahmanya temple at Subrahmanya is one of the famous temples of Karnataka, being run by the state government. The temple is visited by devotees from all parts of India including presidents, prime ministers, chief ministers, cricketers, actors, and business tycoons. Unfortunately, no eminent persons had ever visited the temple during the annual festival called Champa Shasthi held in November/December every year, who could have been witness to a strange ritual called ‘Made Snana’ undertaken by a large number of devotees (around 6,000 this year). If they were witness to this event, perhaps they would have felt deep anguish, agony, disgust or mere shock at the nasty ritual undertaken here with the support of local swamiji and the Minister of Endowment.

Now let me tell you what this ‘made snana’ ritual is all about. ‘Made snana’ ritual has been in practice at the temple for about 400 years or more. People (mostly being dalits and backward classes) who take a vow on their own to get rid of their skin ailments go to the temple during the Champa Shashti fair (also called jathre in Kannada) and roll over the left-overs of food (lunch) served to Brahmins (who claim to belong to the superior caste) on banana leaves, around the precincts of the temple (see the picture elsewhere and also the links to videos on YouTube).

Made snana in progress at Kukke Subrahmanya temple.

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Video on made snana: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U6QmeSnYLY

This is one of the most demeaning, humiliating, shocking and shameful religious practices undertaken in India, especially in Karnataka, year after year. It may be noted here that last year (2010) there was a hue and cry about this obnoxious and degrading ritual as a result of which the local authorities had issued a notification in the local newspapers banning Made Snana, citing objections to the inhuman practice from the public earlier. However, when the festivities began, a few people belonging to a particular community insisted that the ritual should continue this year as well, and the local authorities permitted the ritual to go on due to the intervention of the Minister of Endowment. As a result, the ritual went on for three days to the dismay of the general public who had opposed this practice tooth-and-nail last year. What is distressing to note is that the Minister concerned was himself a practising doctor earlier whose medical practice prohibits him to prescribe made snana to his patients for skin-ailments, which is against the medical ethics.

What shocked the nation most was the argument put forth by the local swamiji who declared that made snana was an age-old practice undertaken by devotees on their own and that the practice should continue. (Wasn’t he aware that the Master-Saint Swami Vivekananda had advocated a scientific outlook and dynamic spirituality to the masses over a century ago?) It is strange that even when dharma and religious practices have undergone numerous changes in all parts of India over the years, this swamiji still advocated the obnoxious practice citing the sanctity of individual beliefs.

Worst of all, the incident that took place on the 30th of November 2011 served as a climax to the ritual of made snana. A group of activists from Mysore who had visited Kukke Subrahmanya to study the ritual of made snana and convince the devotees practising the ritual, not to undertake such demeaning rituals in this modern age, was assaulted temple staff in the presence of police who were mute spectators. It is pertinent to note here that the leader of the group, Mr  K S Shivaram, who is the  State President of  Karnataka Rajyada Hindulida Vargagala Jagrutha Vedike – Karnataka State Backward Classes Awareness Forum- ((KRHVJV) had taken permission from the local authorities previously to visit the temple and also to collect details of made snana from the devotees concerned. In spite of it, the local police did not provide the required security to the group.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx8TAYac4M4

Fact-finding team on made snana being attacked outside the Kukke Subrahmanya temple.

Kukke Subrahmanya temple, as mentioned earlier, is run by the Muzrai department of the Government of Karnataka and there are many kinds of sevas (kinds of pujas) available to the devotees for a certain fee. It may be noted that these sevas take care of all the needs of the devotees including relief from their skin-related problems, fertility-related problems of couples and the like. When this is the case, devotees should have been educated by the temple authorities not to undertake made snana as the same benefits of made snana are said to accrue to the devotees by performing these sevas. Moreover, the moot question is why the Brahmins alone should be served food exclusively in the precincts of the temple, which means giving them exclusive rights over other backward communities, thereby violating the principle of equality guaranteed under the Constitution. In India, Constitution is supreme and discrimination on the basis of caste, race, or colour is prohibited. Needless to say that if backward classes could get rid of their ailments by rolling over the left-overs of food served on plantain leaves to Brahmins, the opposite of it, i.e. Brahmins rolling over the left-overs of food served to the backward class people should also give them the same benefits. However, the Brahmins, on their part, are not inclined to undertake such a ritual.

Time will only tell when India would come out of the shackles of blind beliefs and exploitation of ignorant and vulnerable sections of society in the name of religion. 

Well, let’s try to understand this question.
How are superstitious?

Superstitions do not arise for a reason. Many generations have passed it from hand to hand. They retold by our grandmothers. Then we see firsthand that they work, begin to transfer them to your children and grandchildren. Believe me, it can not be superstition, which do not justify its essence. Most people would just laugh and forget about the existence of some sort of beliefs. But this does not happen. We stubbornly continue to keep this folk wisdom.

So how are all the same superstition? First, a person notices the strangeness is that under certain circumstances, always inevitably happens is an event. He once confronted with this, the second one. The third time he begins to see a pattern. Attempts to avoid this set of circumstances. He then shared with their loved ones suspected by these facts. They begin to turn in their own lives and to search for data matches. Find and conclude that there are actually some obscure relationship.

Further spreading superstition human mass. And for centuries they always justify their existence by the fact that people who believe and have taken certain steps, are protected from the negative impact of energy fields in your life.

At its core, superstition – is nothing more than close observation of the order of things in nature and human life. Scientists have proved the existence of biological energy field of the Earth and the individual. Each of our action has a negative or positively charged. Accordingly, we can not help every one of its thought or deed are making oscillatory movements in the overall aura. So do other sentient beings, including flowers, grass and trees. So, if you wilt or front of the flowers, lush bloom color, it means only one thing. Do you have a home energy changes. Grasp the relationship with that dog howling and a person near death is possible only under constant close observation of wildlife. We have not reached that level of development, which would be able to see with the naked eye changes in energy fields around us. It is possible that the dog as an animal predator by nature, is quite capable of catching these negative destructive changes. You can even suggest that in the past that allowed her more successful hunt those animals that were close to lethal limits. The same can be said of the distant relatives of dogs – wolves. They howl only when hungry and looking for prey. Their howl is likely to notify the school of that, near the place where they are located, will soon be a dead man among the animals. This will allow them to get more easy prey. That’s worth thinking about why we believe in superstition. Maybe they can help us navigate in space, which we do not see?
As there are signs?

Signs are significantly different from superstition. It is rather a reference book of folk wisdom. There are hidden secret knowledge of how a change of the seasons, which portends a particular natural phenomenon, which leads to change in a particular plan.

The root of the origin and will take approximately the same superstitions. Both there and here are the basis of centuries of observation. No one specifically focuses on research, does not explain the mechanism of action people take. But most of us are confident that the signs of coming true.

More proof of this is the past winter and a subsequent summer. In winter 2009 – 2010, on the whole territory of the European part of the country were severe frosts. Old-timers say that it will be very hot summer. And so it happened.

Why the signs are almost always true? And by the way, this is a scientific signs from an astronomical point of view, the explanation. All the matter in Earth orbit. If the winter she went a little farther from the sun, it is natural

That observed in the cold and frost. But this inevitably leads to the fact that in passing to the opposite point of the orbit in the summer, the planet will be closer to the sun is at such a distance that it was removed in the winter. Logical? Absolutely.

There is nothing supernatural in popular superstitions is not and can not be. Only experience and observation. Take for example the calendar marks. Folk wisdom says that the summer and its yield can be determined in the spring. What’s so special? Indeed, the earlier spring and united, the greater the likelihood that sow all the necessary people have time to much earlier. Extended for a period of plant vegetation, fruits and berries will be much greater. Take a huge amount due to the birds. These creatures are still not fully understood by scientists. We do not know the mechanism that makes the birds fly south in the spring and return to their homes. It would seem, well, flew away, so there would have remained. What causes them to break away from the places where sufficient food and favorable climatic conditions? What mysterious force moves them every year in space. Why are they behind the centuries-old evolution has not managed to adapt to the conditions of the climate zone in which they derive their young.

All these questions have no answers for scientists. But people say the signs of the behavior of birds very much. For example, if a dove flew into the window sign says that the house is bad luck. And most importantly, all the signs in different people say about about the same. Discrepancies of various events are very rare. In most cases they are related to differences in cultural traditions.
Modern signs and superstitions

Today, with the development of technological progress folk omens and superstitions continue to occur. People are still watching the current events and display the slender theory. And all this is very quickly gaining a certain power and starts to really work. Do you know the secret of the rapid spread of modern superstitions and adopt? In the advanced technologies of communication networks.

It is in our time we can share and exchange information almost instantaneously. We have a unique opportunity to pass it over vast distances. All this makes it very quick to inform many people. Each of which contributes its share of power in the new omen and superstition. So it becomes energetically powerful enough and can actively intervene in the life of any person.