Superstitions
(Pinaki Goswami)
There are practically no nations in the world entirely free-from superstitions. In one form or another, superstitions seem to exist even in the most advanced nations. No progress of science, no amount of analysis or reasoning seems adequate to drive out supersititons from human society altogether. An eastern villager stops in his tracks if anybody sneezes; one English batsman loses his nerve if he is on 13! Ghosts and witches still haunt even the most advanced communities. There must be something innate in human beings which leads to the germination and growth of superstitions.Fortunately, however, superstitions are neither as numerous as they used to be at one time, nor are they as widespread as before. Not half as many people make a fetish of sneezing or house-lizards as they did in the past, nor are there all those complicated rules to observe as to when pumpkins or brinjals should or should not be taken. Many people are still religious. But the vilation of minor tenet do not worry them as much as if used to. Most people do not bother when they commence a journey or what they eat. It seems more important to a person making a journey to check up on train-times than on the position of the stars, and choosing food people care more for health and economy than for what the almanacs say. The industrial and economic progress of developing nations is largely accounted for this radical shift in attitudes. The progress of science blew up many of these myths and superstitions. The eclipses are no longer viewed as the work of an angry god, but a natural phenomena. Rains or their absence no longer seem attributed to supernatural cuuses.Along with the progress of reason and science, superstitions have fallen into decline.It is however, difficult to say when it will disappear altogether.
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