I watch the odd bit of televangelism now and then. My son Connor (then 11) caught a few minutes of one program in which some outrageous thing was being foisted on a nodding throng

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Like any other country, Japan has it's own unique set of beliefs, superstitions and unusual habits. Some concern themselves with numerology, some relate to death, and some simply defy any logical link to anything whatsoever.

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An Asian Tomcat Myth

Of all the animals that roamed the earth, cats perhaps form the species associated with the most exotic, regal and most number of myths and superstitions.

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NEW Superstitions Do You Believe?

I personally don't fully believe in them at all. The way i feel about them are at some point in time someone or a group of people had something happen to them and it was just pasted on through time whether being lucky or bad luck.

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Many people view the Valentine's Day Holiday as the only one associated with love. They fail to realize all the superstitions that surround Christmas that involve love as well. There are many superstitions during the Christmas holiday season regarding your love life.

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Those things that go bump in the night? About one-third of people believe they could be ghosts. And nearly one out of four, 23 percent, say they've actually seen a ghost or felt its presence, finds a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos.

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Find out how your day can go for you!

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The superstitious, the devout and the numerists have big plans at the altar today.

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The origin of religion is in our heads, explains developmental biologist Lewis Wolpert. First we figured out how to make tools, then created a supernatural being.

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No matter how much some of us might scoff at superstitions, we all take special precautions to avoid walking under ladders and crossing the path of black cats on Friday the 13th.

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New Year's Superstitions

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This is not a good day for paraskevidekatriaphobics -- those who fear Friday the 13th. It's double-13 Friday. All the numbers in the numerical notation -- 10/13/2006 -- add up to 13 as well, giving great pause to the superstitious.

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The Friday the 13th Club Dinner

Ahh yes, it's Friday the 13th once again. Nobody is quite sure what the exact reason this day is so vexed, but it seems to boil down to a mixture of Christian lore and pagan holidays.

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Richard Stockton College in Pomona, New Jersey wrote a brief article in Psychological Reports arguing that in the US there is a statistically significant greater number of suicides and homicides on Friday the 13th.

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Superstition at Sea

Since the first rudimentary vessel was placed on the ocean's surface, seafarers have developed and observed a stringent set of myths and superstitions.

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