Superstition

Why do we think, "Oh, it is Friday the 13th."? Why do we pick up a penny for good luck? Well, it is this thing called superstition. In the dictionary, superstition means: A belief from fear, ignorance, or from magic and chance from that supernatural.

Superstition is in my family in a lot of ways. First, Friday the 13th. I think it is a bad luck day. Lots of bad things happen on that day. one reason is that if you step on a crack on that day, you break your mom's back. I step on cracks on purpose, and that never happened.

Another bad luck thing is: the black cat. If it crosses your path, you have bad luck for 7 years. I have had lots of black cats cross my path, and I am pretty lucky. It the cat is halfway across, turn around. Also, if you beak a mirror, you get 7 years of bad luck.

There is one thing that I do believe in, and it is: a watched pot never boils. When I boil water for anything, it never does. I hate that. One good luck thing is the lucky penny. If you pick it up off the ground two things will happen: one, you get richer, and two, you get good luck.

We have this thing called the Lewis Family Curse. We never win anything. I broke it when I won an electric piano in a piano recital drawing. I was so surprised. I also won something at the rock and gem show. I am so lucky.

So there is some " beliefs from fear, ignorance, of magic and chance from the supernatural" in my family. Those are our superstitions.