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One is exposed to superstitions and curses from a young age as a way to blame something that could have caused the effect of the circumstance. There are a few superstitions that people believe in today: If you walk under a ladder you would receive bad luck, knock on wood to avoid bad luck, avoiding a black car, or breaking a mirror and you would acquire seven years of bad luck. Superstition is an illogical belief in supernatural influences that evolved due to ignorance or fear of the unknown. Superstition and curses can't be prove with physical facts or have any logical evidence from scientists. However, superstitions and curses are believed by humans because of supernatural beliefs and try to find fault in these superstitions then find a When one is a fan of a sport, they want to do everything in their power to make sure that their sport team wins. For example, in 1945 when a Cubs fan named Billy Sianis was ejected from Wrigley field after many people complained about the smell coming from his goat, he was infuriated and put a curse on the team proclaiming, "Them Cubs, they ain't gonna win no more." After decades of losing, Cubs fans would result to detach a goat's head from it’s body to hang on the Harry Caray statue or send it to the Cubs owner. This obsession results in the desperate need of a sports fan for their team to win that they become blindsided by the superstition and don’t think of the inconvenience this could have caused to people and the consequences one might Superstitions provide a sense of hope and something to believe in that could explain the reasoning as to why a team hasn’t won a game for a period of time. An example, is in the movie Fever Pitch, where a man named Ben is obsessed with the Boston Red Sox. Ben and his friends believe in superstitions and curses and think that the reason the Red Soxs haven’t won it’s because of the Curse of the Bambino. The Curse of the Bambino became to be in the 1920s when Harry Frazee, the owner of the Boston Red Sox, needed money to finance his girlfriend’s play and decided to sell Babe Ruth's contract to the New York Yankees. Since then, the Boston Red Sox have lost to game seven and haven’t been in a World Series since Babe Ruth’s departure. Many believed that the curse was the reason for the Boston Red Sox not winning a World Series. After many decades of losing and not winning a World Series, Ben and many other Red Sox fans kept their loyalty to the team. Believing in the curse was essential for them as this bonded them together and never made them lose hope that someday the Red Sox would win and the curse would be

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