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Akash Patel
Chandravati Chaudhary
Rajan Madhwani
Prof. Suraj Shah
M.B.A (F.S)SEM-1

What is a superstition?
 Some believe that superstitions is any think that people
believe that is based on myth, magic or illogical thought.
 Superstitions are also known as old wives’ tales, legends,
and traditions. They may involve animals, graveyards, ghosts,
inanimate objects, or even other people.

Lucky Horseshoes:
 Some people believe in order to bring good
luck. A horseshoe hung in the bedroom will keep
nightmares away.
 This belief stems from the fact that a horse
shoe has seven holes, which is considered to be a
lucky number.
 It is made of iron, so it can supposedly ward
off evil spirits that may haunt you in your dreams.

God Bless You:
Sixth century:
 It was believed that sneeze
expelled evil spirits from the
body.  It was than later believed
that your soul could escape
your body though sneeze and
that by saying, “GOD
BLESS YOU”
 During the sneezed at that time the heart momentarily
stops so saying “GOD BLESS YOU” was a way of
welcoming the person back to life.

 This superstition find it’s origin in the middles ages
due to the misunderstand belief that single woman who
associated themselves with many cats where actually
witch who could become cats themselves.

Christians, at that time wanting to
destroy all other religions from society,
convinced people that black cats were
demon.
the a black cat crossing the path
its considered as evil.
 In England black cats are believed to bring “GOOD LUCK”.
 Some believe Cats can see spirits and can hence guard you
against evil spirits.

 The Egyptians celebrated the birthday of
their king. The Greek are said to have taken
the idea from the Egyptians.
 Lighting candles on a birthday cake
originates from pagan beliefs in gods. People
had believed that their gods lived in the sky
among the stars.
 If, all the candles are blown out in one
breath, the wish will come true, and the
person will have good luck throughout the
year.

Four leaf clover:
• Though the origin of wishing
over a four-leaf clover is lost to
olden times it has long been a
symbol of good luck and fortune.
It has been also used in some traditions for finding a
husband or a wife.
If a person eat this leaf than after first time who meet
he/she is this future mate.

• “Find a penny, pick it up, and
all day long you’ll have good
luck.”
(Middle time) when someone walked under
ladder it was believed that he would sure face
his/her own death by hanging.

Fingers crossed
for
good luck:
To cross one’s fingers is a
hand gesture commonly
used for good luck.

Itchy Palms:
Some people believe that
 If the right palm itches, you will lose money,
while an
itchy left palm means that money is coming your
way.
 If both palm itches…you may want to go to a
doctor for that.

 Friday the 13th has been a source of superstition ever since the
19th century.
 Many people will purposely avoid doing anything significant
(like business meetings, socials, banquets, etc.) due to the
belief that the day is cursed and its a source of ill fortune.

Hiccups:
If you have hiccups it means
someone is thinking of you.
Money:
Greeks believe that money attracts
money, so never leave your pockets,
purses or wallets completely empty
and never completely empty your
bank account.
 Reverse your luck by turning three
times counter clockwise.

Crows: One's bad, two's luck, three's health, four's wealth,
five's sickness, six is death.
Dishes: An old Mexican belief is if a dish or pot falls and
breaks for no reason, someone in your family has died.
Dog: If a dog howls 3 times, someone is going to die.
Fish: A fish should always be eaten from the head toward the
tail. Dream of fish: someone you know is pregnant.

 Many airports skip the 13th
gate.
 Airplanes have no 13th aisle.
 Hospitals and hotels
regularly have no room
number 13.

 Italians omit the number 13 from their national lottery.
 On streets in Florence, Italy, the house between number 12
and 14 is addressed as 12 and a half.
 Many cities do not have a 13th Street or a 13th Avenue.
 In France, socialites known as the quatorziens (fourteens)
once made themselves available as 14th guests to keep a
dinner party from an unlucky fate.

 Many triskaidekaphobia, as those who fear the unlucky
integer are known, point to the ill-fated mission to the moon,
Apollo 13.
 If you have 13 letters in your name, you will have the devil's
luck .
Charles Manson,
Jeffrey Dahmer,
Theodore Bundy
Albert de salvo all have 13 letters in their names.

 Ringing bells:
The sound of bells fends off demons
because they're afraid of the loud noise. -
When a bell rings, a new angel has received
his/her wings.
 Butterfly:
If the first butterfly you see in the year is white, you will have
good luck all year. 3 butterflies together mean good luck.
 Bird: A bird in the house is a sign of a death.

KNIFE: Crossing two knives is
bad luck. If you are given a present
of a knife, give a coin in return to
avoid 'cutting' the friendship.
Breaking a Mirror :
(Roman, Greek, Chinese, African
and Indian Cultures) “break a
mirror, face seven years of bed
luck”

Cemetery: You must hold your breath while going past a
cemetery or you will breathe in the spirit of someone who has
recently died. So evil can’t enter in us.
Chimney Sweep: (European country) It's
very lucky to meet a chimney sweep by
chance. Make a wish when Sighting one,
and the wish will come true.
Cigarettes:
It is bad luck to light three
cigarettes with the same match.

Sachin Tendulkar
Sachin Tendulkar has a
lucky pad gifted to him
by his brother. Sachin
Tendulkar always puts
on his left pad first while
going out to bat.

Yuvraj Singh’s
lucky number is 12.
Yuvraj Singh
He wears a
black thread
on his wrist.

Mahela Jayawardena
Sri lanka batsman
Mahela Jayawardena is
known to kiss his bat
while batting.
Virat Kohli
Virat Kohli used
to wear a black
wristbands.

 Sourav Ganguly always used
to carry a photo of his Guru
(spiritual teacher) in his pocket
when he was out in the field.
 Other than that, he was also
seen wearing chains and
tabeez.
India’s opening batsman
Virender Sehwag is to carry a
red handkerchief in all the
match.
Virender Sehwag
Sourav Ganguly

Cristiano Ronaldo:
Keeps a pre-match ritual
of getting his hair cut for
fear of jinxing his scoring
run.
Cristiano Ronaldo:
Jarno Trulli:
The Italian Formula
One driver carried a
string of garlic with
him to win a race.
Jarno Trulli:

Aamir Khan
Bollywood star Aamir Khan
believes December month is lucky
for him.
After Taare Zameen Par, he
scheduled the release of
Ghajini and 3 Idiots
last two movies
Taalash and Dhoom 3
Salman
Khan
The sapphire bracelet on Salman
Khan's right arm is his lucky
charm. He considers it his
protector and insists on flaunting
it on-screen too.

Hrithik Roshan
considers his extra thumb
as a lucky charm and said
he would never opt for a
surgery to remove his
extra finger.
Hrithik Roshan
Ekta Kapoor
TV and film producer Ekta Kapoor is
known for her obsession with the letter 'K'
and is often called superstitious. She can
even be seen sporting a lot of rings and
other such things.
Kasauti zindagi ki…
Kahani ghar ghar ki..
Kabhi sans bhi bau thi…

Shah Rukh khan did not believe
in superstitions till his team
Kolkata knight riders failed to
win their first couple of matches
earlier this IPL season. A taaviz
he started wearing, seemed to
have brought his Knights out
from the dark shadows.
Every car that he owns includes
the special serial of digits, 555.
 Ajay Devgn adopted industry
name over his real name Vishal when
he debuted with Phool Aur Kaante.
 At the behest of the family's
jyotish, he dropped the 'a' from his
surname and became Devgn.
Ajay Devgn
Shah Rukh khan

Bipasha Basu reportedly
buys nimboo-mirchi every
Saturday and puts it in her car.
She believes that it wards off
evil.
Sanjay Dutt is apparently a firm
believer in numerology and
considers 9 as his lucky number.
And that's why he prefers the
number 4545 - that adds up to 9 -
- on each of the license plates of
his diverse fleet of cars.

Katrina kaif
Before relies her every movie,
she used to visit the Ajmer Dargah.
- Namstey london
Emma Roberts
"Don't walk under ladders”.
My mom just walked
under one yesterday and I was
like, 'Oh my God, I can't believe
you just did that!' I've never walked
under a ladder, ever," she said.

 China :
For Chinese language and culture, the
number 8 is lucky.
Ex: The Beijing Olympic games was
scheduled to begin on 8/8/08.

Japan:
 Japanese are afraid to be photo in three. The one from the
middle is expected to die.
 For avoiding misfortune, Japanese will not talk to man who
talks while sleeping.
 There are several unlucky numbers in
Japanese. Traditionally, 4 and 9 are unlucky.
Four is sometime pronounced Shi, which is
also the word for death.
 Nine is also sometime pronounced Ku,
which can mean suffering.

India
 In India never ask the question "where are you going?” while they
are leaving house.
 Its purpose will not be fulfilled. And taking a teaspoon of curd with
little sugar before exam will bring good luck.
 A married lady with flowers on the head & kumkum on fore head.
 Right eye twitching - good for men
 Left eye twitching - good for women.

A broom gets attached to the house it sweeps. So if
you move house, don’t take the broom along.
• Don’t cut your nails and hair on Saturday or
Tuesday.

 Russia:
If you are sitting against the corner of the dinner table you
won’t marry for 7 years (only for girls).
 Thailand
Those people who offering flowers to the monk cannot Smell
the flowers! If you did, then something very bad will Happen to
your nose soon.
 Rome
If you whistle inside ones home, you are likely to lose all your
Money.

 Moldova
If you accidentally hit with your head your friends head
you have to hit it the second time or someone will die in the
family.
 Eastern Europe
It is said that If you drop a fork during the meal,
somebody is expected to come.
 Italy
Italians think you’re lucky to hear a cat sneezing.
 Spain
If a clock which has not been working suddenly
doorbell, there will be a death in the family.

U.K
 In UK it is believed that you
would be lucky if you meet a
black cat.
 Not one Englishman will open
his umbrella near the door or will
put his new shoes on the table.
 To cut a bread in an uneven
manner is a sign that you have
been telling lies.
Opening Umbrellas Indoors:
Opening an umbrella in the shade was considered as an insult of Sun
God. Other superstition has that dropping an umbrella on the floor
might indicate a murder in the house.

Barak Obama: • Us President Barak Obama.
• Obama Carries With him tiny idol
of hanuman.
• They believed to have been
influenced by his childhood spent
at Indonesia.
• Like the Hindus in India &
Indonesian Hindus consider the
monkey God as very Powerful
and a protector against evil.

Vasundhara Raje
Barak Obama Played Basketball on
every Election day during his
presidential campaigns Save for Once.
She took
oath on December 13 at 13:13 as
13 is her lucky number. She also
changed official residence of CM
from 8 Civil Lines to 13 Civil
Lines.

Jairam Ramesh
He refused to occupy the room on the
second flood of Delhi’s Shram Shakti
Bhawan, which houses the water, power
and labour ministries.
Reason: The room had been vacant since
2005 after two power ministers- PR
Kumaramangalam and PM Sayeed - died
in office. No minister has taken this room
since.

Former AP CM Chandrababu Naidu lost the
elections in 2004. His visit to Karnataka's Guntakal
town is believed to have led to the downfall.
Congress leaders, including Indira Gandhi, former
CMs Marri Chenna Reddy, K Vijayabhaskar Reddy
and N Janardhan Reddy, who visited the town have
lost their seats and posts.

Narendra Modi
Lalu Yadav Says:-
Country started facing bad luck, citing the example of
Gorakhdham Express train accident and Hyderabad students
drowning to death in Uttaranchal. In his words, “Modi ke aane se
ashubh ho gaya”.
Narendra Modi went to Nepal, bad luck followed him there too,
and there was a serious threat of floods in Nepal and Bihar.

Lalu Prasad Yadav
He got his Swimming
Pool Filled with single
Suggestion From a Vastu
Expert. Because it
bought him bed election
luck.
Former Rail Minister Pawan
Kumar Bansal reportedly
Sacrificed a goat in an attempt
to SAVE his chair for the Rail
Gate scandal.

For Samajwadi Party supremo
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Noida
is a no-entry zone. He has been
told that a visit to the city will
bring him bad sign.
Akhilesh Yadav is belived
to invest all Noida Projects by
Pressing a button in Lucknow
because Of a spell that any CM
who visits Noida Loses his seat.

Mamata Banerjee moved
from her Kalighat home at
Alipore on the advice of her
astrologer.
Nandan Nilekani sources
claim, wanted advice from an
astrologer before submitting his
nomination between 12:15pm
and 12:45pm.

Rahul And Priyanka
LuckGy cahanrmd–hi
Rajiv Gandhi's kurta and Indira Gandhi's saree.
When visiting Amethi, Rahul Gandhi always wears his
father Rajiv Gandhi's white kurta and Priyanka wears
her grandmother Indira Gandhi's saree.

Rama Rao
RAMA RAO, was highly superstitious.
 He used to wear a erring,
 sleep on the floor and being his day at 3 AM.
 At one time, he refused to sit on a chair!

 According to a retired ISRO rocket scientist, a project director used
to wear a new shirt on the day a rocket was launched.
 "This was the first time in ISRO's history that a rocket was launched
on a Tuesday. Tuesday is generally considered as inauspicious day," an
ISRO official informed.

 After sending up the rocket PSLV-C12, ISRO jumped one number
and called its next rocket, which launched Oceansat-2 and six
European Nano satellites, as PSLV-C14

Conclusion:
 There is really no end of Superstitions.
 New ones come up every day and majority of people
dare not disregard these superstitious beliefs.
 Education is one factor that can wipe out
superstitions to some level.

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