Superstition and The Human Belief

“A Few Kind Words for Superstition” is an essay by the Canadian writer Robertson Davies. The essay focuses on the belief of the human world in superstition and its different forms. Davies states that superstition throughout human culture is something of an underground belief that no one will admit to, and most frown upon, yet most people still participate in it. The author inquires on why, so called, irrational things such as “Parapsychology, UFO’s, …

…pressure of failure in the person’s mind, and therefore aid the person in concentrating on the task at hand, and not so much with the element of failure. Yet, as frowned upon as it may be, I feel that superstition is an element of a person’s life, consciously or subconsciously, that will not fade from the human culture due to reasons such as the control of one’s fate, or ability to succeed.