An example of a spontaneous superstition
The other day my wife told me that a few days earlier my three year old daughter had seen hedgehog while wearing her little nightgown. She had been really taken with the animal and wanted to see it again the next day. So, she asked if she could put on her nightgown again, thinking that if she did she may see the hedgehog. Wondefully cute, really. Also, quite fascinating – why should she have picked on the nightgown as the element of the environment which she related to the hedgehog?
[...] – but, at this point, I am thinking of starting with an example of spontaneous superstition that I mentioned on the blog previously. Here are the first few paragraphs of the current [...]
The book’s introduction - a draft « Just Another Deisidaimon said this on November 22, 2007 at 1:02 pm |
please give me one more example of superstition….
i died
i died!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i saw a ghost in the grave yard. that night i heard noises in my closet and they called my name and i never slept in that room again!!!