What are the origins of our superstitions?

[harmonica]

..humans have the ''need'' for explanation .....
..humans are stupid/irrational/etc

 

[Shawnee_b]

I also believe in some superstitions
1) I never pass under a staircase, unless absolutely necessary;
2) when I knock on somebody's door I say "tao po" which means "It's a person knocking on your door" (the word "tao" means "person"...it's a way to reassure the people inside the house that the knocker is a real human an not some "evil non human beings");
3) I never clear the table while some people are still eating
Superstitions number 2 and 3 are fully Filipino (almost everybody here says tao po when knocking on the door and never clear the table when somebody is eating)

Should have told my uncle that. If he was done, he took your plate and made you do dishes. Slob used a dishtowel for a napkin. Eat a whole chicken in 5 min. Other uncle could eat 2 chickens in 5 min but at least let you eat.