What’s The Deal

I am part Irish and I never understood why the Irish have so many superstitions about all of these ridiculous things.  I understand that things were different in my grandmother’s time, as back then people wanted to keep witches away and make sure that their new born baby was protected from evil spirits and my grandmother carried all of these false notions over from what she was taught.  Many people grow up with weird traditions and superstitions because the infinite Universe is sending them heuristic lessons, so they can overcome their fear of the unknown.  Francis Bacon said, “The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”  Most of the superstitions that my grandmother taught me have been forgotten or lost, but the ones that survived, I keep as a treasured memories.

A normal superstition would encompass breaking a mirror, having…