Daily Entertainment: Superstition Edition!

[damncompass]

Happy (or not-so-happy) Friday the 13th, everyone!

In honour of that, I give you today's Daily Entertainment Offering.

Superstitions!

Is your character superstitious? If so, what about? If not, why?

For bonus points... what about you as a mun?

Comments

[sdelmonte]

Philosophically, as a follower of the works of the great Jewish rationalist sage Maimonides, I don't believe in superstition of any sort. And yet, there are little things I do or don't do on occasion, even though then say to myself "the world doesn't work that way."

I of course possess the most superstitious character of all time in my collection of pups, Gibbs from PotC. He is so superstitious that, to paraphrase Ned Flanders, he even does the superstitions that contradict the other superstitions. I think on Friday the 13th he hides in whatever rooms he has and spends the day muttering folk sayings and prayers.

Kirk, Howard Stark and CharlieQuestion are rational men and reject all superstitions. In Kirk's day, that is fine, but Howard spent the war years arguing with otherwise intelligent men about every last superstition held by soldiers, sailors and aviators. If you dare show him a good luck charm before a test flight, you run a chance of being grounded. And while Charlie has accepted the idea of higher powers and gods, he imagines that none of them really care if you walk under a ladder.

Knox grew up immersed in the folk superstitions of Eastern European Jewry (the sort of things that Maimonides would have railed against if he lived in a Polish shtetl). He denies that he believes in things like the Evil Eye, but it's there. Especially when he is playing softball. But he doesn't like to admit it's there.

And Cyborg is pretty sure that some superstitions are based in reality, since magic is real. I would add that he was most likely immersed in African American superstitions the way Knox was in Jewish, but I don't know anything about that subject.