How did people come up with superstitious beliefs?
Since past, things that were beyond explanation, people will start to talk about it, when more people talk about it, people will start to believe. This lead to many superstitious beliefs. We all know, today science had proved many things that mislead the ancient people. But we also know, they are still many things that science cannot be proven. For things that still beyond proven, some people may still choose their superstitious beliefs, and some may choose to believe that it’s just the current human’s knowledge unable to prove it. Whatever you choose to believe, so long we respect each other beliefs, it will not affect anyone life.
All superstitions come about from empirical, mostly anecdotal, events. Enough anecdotal evidence and a tale becomes a superstition. When I was young we would put pennies on trolley car tracks. In a few years, such squashed pennies had small holes drilled in them and they were worn as good luck charms because of lucky stories attached to them. The trolleys are gone now and also the lucky squashed pennies.
