Do You Believe in Superstitions?

Do You Believe in Superstitions? Remember the childhood ditty, “Step on a crack, break your mother’s back”? And what about wondering if the black cat that crossed your path had any white on him. The fortune cookies at a Chinese restaurant influence a lot of superstitious people, to say nothing of the astrology forecasts in newspapers. My mother used to match people for compatibility according to the month they were born in! One “superstition” if you can call it that, should be convincingly wrong is water witching. The very name indicates an involvement with spiritualism which is very real. Water witching is done in different ways. Sometimes a forked stick is used, or a wire or two. The person holds the wires while walking over an area of ground. When the wires or stick point down on their own, that is where there is supposed to be water. Sometimes there is and sometimes there isn’t. One family I know had a water witching done at their place. When the person holding the wires walked over a small creek, the wires forcefully pointed down. The family’s older son noted all this, and after his father and others had finished their water witching and gone into the house to talk, he decided to test things out for himself. Quietly the boy slipped out of the house, picked up the wires that had been used and walked across the same creek. Sure enough, the wires pointed downward. Then he prayed to God that if this were of Satan that it wouldn’t work and proceeded to walk back over the creek with the wires. Nothing happened. Very impressed, the lad later told his father about the incident. Jokes are made about graveyard happenings where a person falls into a newly dug grave and can’t get out. As he sits there wondering what to do next, a second person falls into the same hole. The first fellow quips, “It’s no use, you’ll never get out.” And the second guy is out of the hole in no time flat. We laugh, but need to beware that spiritualism is very real and very evil.