One of the ways to suppress fear and prevent undesirable consequences is the prejudice and superstition that came to us from ancient magic. They are in fact an attempt to magically influence the future by performing any rituals or rituals (returned from the road home - look in the mirror, saw the crossing road of a black cat - spit three times over your left shoulder, and this list is endless).
It is impossible to find someone who does not know the feeling of fear. But with excessive compliance to fears, depending on them, the behavior of a person changes, he becomes superstitious, and therefore - not self-confident. The philosophical encyclopedia defines prejudice as an opinion preceding the intellect, something mastered uncritically, without reflection. The re-referendum refers to the irrational components of the individual and public consciousness - superstitions that are associated with religion. Prejudice is an unfavorable social attitude toward a phenomenon, not based on proven experience, emotional and stereotyped, but it is nonetheless very stable and poorly amenable to change under the influence of rational information.
What is superstition?
Superstition is a prejudice that consists in the fact that an individual takes as reality unknown forces that are capable of portending events and sometimes even affecting them. Superstition includes an assumption, often unconscious, that these forces can be met with protection or enter into a compromise with them.
Superstition is manifested in some pseudo-ritual forms: talismans, tattoos, magic gestures, etc. A special place will be taken: it is attributed to the ability to predict the future and even can influence it. The psychological specifics of the stability of superstitions can be connected by the fact that the cases of their confirmation are fixed, and the facts of their obvious mistakenness are superseded.
Ethnographers note that all primitive tribes have people's signs - a lot of useless at first sight magical rituals, which are difficult to find a reasonable explanation. For example, the whole life of the Chukchi is filled with innumerable prohibitions, spells, rules and divination, the absurdity of which is amazing: the ban is to heat in winter with a tree, the ban for more than five years to live in a foreign land, the prohibition to build fire in a boat, the ban on using foreign fire, etc. Other nations there are also their prohibitions - just as poorly understood in terms of logic. The Papuans of New Guinea, from birth to death, are dominated by the fear of misfortune, which requires all sorts of ritualistic tricks that must protect the natives.
What is the sense in these and other numerous rules and prohibitions that determine the life of nationalities who are at the initial stages of development? After all, if such ritual actions were not useful at all, people would eventually abandon them. In real life, on the contrary, rituals are very persistent and persist for decades, and even for centuries! But the paradox is that the magic tricks work! They really helped a man! There remains only one question - how it happened. Rituals and magical rites did not affect the surrounding people at all, and especially not on nature, but primarily on the consciousness of the person who performs the rite, inspiring confidence, calmness and a sense of his power. And as the listed qualities, undoubtedly, helped to successfully carry out this or that business, people were inclined to ascribe the success of their undertakings to magic.
Superstitions and belief in signs are an invariable companion of representatives of a profession directly connected with risk and dangers. They are many in the sailors and pilots, miners and stunt men. Do not lag behind and motorists who managed to make a list of many prejudices, not unlike anything from sea or aviation, but filling their niche - signs of cars.
Yes, cars - this is a very young area of human life, but here you can also collect many volumes on the topic: signs of folk about cars (as is customary in dictionaries, putting the primary word on the first place).
The most widespread popular signs of cars - it's an unspoken, but seriously executed ban on the boast of your own safe driving before leaving - so as not to jinx.
The acquisition of a new car - a special layer will take. If this machine is not your first, and the previous one was safely conquered many kilometers, it is highly recommended to transfer from the old to the new something that protected it - the image or just a "happy" coin. And then this iron horse will serve no worse than the old one.
A special place for signs about cars is given to cars "unlucky". It has long been firmly established, and the people's rumor has proved that there are cars regularly falling into accidents, stolen or fined. They often change owners, transferring their karma to more and more new car enthusiasts. Therefore, popular signs do not recommend buying a car, if it is not listed in the hijacking, is in good condition, and is sold far below the real price - there is a danger of becoming another victim of the auto-damnation. And with this is connected another sign - buying a new car, at first it needs to travel with extreme caution, since even a small accident at the beginning of the "life path" of the car can turn into problems for his entire future biography, the car will then constantly fall into rework.
And vice versa - the cars of rich and successful people sold by their owners are in high demand, their new owners obviously count on the fact that their former owner will also be showered on them.
And there is a very special section of auto insurance - how to avoid fines from the traffic police. But here, as experts say, power and magic, and omens, and even appeal to the higher forces are not powerless ... Whistleblowers and staff do not succumb to any persuasion, conspiracies and even spells!