- By Tushar Soni
“Superstition is the death of a thinking mind”.
The interpretation of the ‘superstition’ dictionary is a more credible belief, an irrational fear of irreverence or misunderstanding, misunderstood ‘. It is completely unsatisfactory, because it fails to put proper emphasis on the catastrophic effects of beliefs and beliefs on the lives of large numbers of people worldwide – even today. Superstitions do nothing, but they can hurt. It can destroy the lives of those who find a fortress upon him.
Superstitions come from ancient animism that can be described as false religion. While all major world religions have some element of superstition about them, especially at the beginning, their basic teachings are rooted in the personal leadership they create and in all cases tend to set one’s soul and mind free of fear and prejudice. The animism, however – still being adopted in tropical Africa and remote parts of Asia – is completely different. It is based on the false notion that every element of nature has its familiar spirit, and in order to live in harmony with nature, the individual is committed to pleasing the owner of false gods. Life becomes a series of ‘restricted boundaries’ and there can be no hope of improvement, because those minds suffer from this abuse daily and nightly. What are some of these effects? Here are a few examples.
Many ancient peoples engage in fear of the dark. Jews in biblical times and Native Americans in the 19th century were victims of alien robbers. many thousands were killed because they refused to offend the ‘night winds’ by fighting back in the dark. Toda, in a tropical region of Africa, caused much animosity in the remote forest villages because of superstition. The fertility beliefs and rituals of women’s and teenage pregnancy and adolescence undermine the meaning – and all of this is done to confirm the ‘production’ of a man and the ‘man’ of man, as a need for the right spirit. Citizens who are extremely intelligent and less scared, raise money by fearing their own people, by dropping out the necessary donations and making the necessary ceremony – all for the sake of making money. The town can easily believe in the policies– not only by paying taxes, but also because people are afraid to take reasonable steps to improve their situation for fear of offending the spirits. When a new line of fish was built near Accra in Ghana as part of a lucrative development program, locals spend thousands of pounds of sacrifices to enrich the local ‘sea gods,’ for fear their catch will be poor.
But countries with European and Asian countries have their own superstitions, are presented as myths, or exploited as financial rackets by infidels. Some are harmless, or some can seriously damage someone’s ignorance of life or damage it to their pocket. an event that the Germans use their ‘black’, ‘hot’ myth to ensure good behavior for their children on Christmas. children are told that sweating is going all over the house before Christmas and it will hit any disabled child! Most British superstitions are harmless. Most people won’t walk down the stairs – it’s either because they think the ladder might go down or the painter to lift his jar! Many British people ‘touch the wood’ when they find themselves asserting in a negative way that it is impossible – perhaps because the trees were so important to British magic. And too many people, if they spill salt, throw some on their left shoulders. The vision says that it gets in the eyes of demons. and no doubt the Chinese, Malays and Indians have many similar habits. None of these are particularly harmful – but there are some superstitions that can be harmful.
At best , superstition is no more than eccentricity at worst, a dangerous threat to serene and untrammeled living. Most of it belong to our dim ancestry, and as the human race evolves, so will superstition decrease, and, in the end, disappear.
