Speech About Superstitions

Why do we have Superstitions? And where do they come from?

Have you ever wondered why it is immediate bad luck to walk under a ladder? Well, in medieval times, the ladder symbolised the gallows — a place where people where hanged. So it was commonly believed that to walk under a ladder, was to certify your own death by hanging. So, remember Mrs Knight and my fellow students, if you walk under a ladder, you 're probably going to be hanged.

Good morning Mrs Knight and fellow students, superstitions have been around for as long as there have been people to believe in them. Superstitions have bewitched, bemused and befuddled millions and billions of innocent people throughout the world. Superstitions are defined as a widely held, but irrational belief in supernatural influences or forces. Traditionally superstitions develop in communities to explain nature and existence. What is unknown is feared, and traditionally, people would invent rituals to prevent certain outcomes that were inexplainable. Superstitions often make individuals scared and historically generate fear, forcing people and

It is believed that the good luck powers of the horseshoe dates back to the story of a blacksmith named Dustan and man who believed he was the devil. As the story goes, a man came across Dustan and requested that the blacksmith shod him. Dustan recognised this man as the devil and nailed a horseshoe to the devil’s hoof. Seeing that the devil was in great pain, it is said the he chained him while he was in agony and only released him after the devil promised never to enter a place that had a horseshoe hung over the door. Later Dustan became the archbishop of Canterbury in 959AD and is now known as Saint Dustan. Therefore, to prevent the devil entering your home it is necessary for you to hang a horseshoe in the upwards position above your