Presentation on Superstition Definition Few Examples Pakistan Superstition Cricket Superstition

2. Superstition
Yasir Ali

3. Contents
• What is superstition?
• How Superstitions Originate?
• Superstitions in Modern World
• Effects of Superstition
• Superstitions in Pakistan
• How to get rid of Superstitions?
• Conclusion

4. What is superstition?
• Belief that certain things and occurrences
have positive or negative implications on
someone life specially good or bad luck
• It is not based on reason or scientific thinking

5. How Superstitions Originate?
• Since the first ages people have believed in superstition
• Archaic cultures like Chinese, Persians, Egyptians, Greeks
believed in superstitions
• It is naturally cultural inherent

6. How Superstitions Originate?
• Superstitions can arise due to
ignorance or casual coincidence
• Different cultures has different
superstitions

7. Superstitions in Modern World
• Despite of scientific advancement, superstition is still increasing
• It exists even in educated people from developed countries
• It can be in rural as well as in urban people

8. Effects of Superstition
• Superstitions can change human behaviors
and performances
• Superstition can have positive and
negative effects
• Superstition can affect price of products
• About 10,000 fewer people
fly in US on 13th Friday

9. Superstitions in Pakistan
• Superstitions in Pakistan prevail due to cultural traditions
• Similarity in Pakistani and Indian superstitions

10. Superstitions in Pakistan
• A study was carried about superstitions in Village Mohla, Punjab
• 109 respondents of both genders were chosen based on age
• About 50% of the respondents believed in superstition
SUPERSTITIONS Percentage of respondents
Lucky / Unlucky Day 80
Seeing Black Cat 5.9
Sweeping Floor at Sunset 53.0
Crow Sitting on Wall 62.7
Itchy Palm Brings Money 29.4
Ayesha Farooq et al, South Asian Studies, 27(2), 335, 2012
Respondents Stating Various Superstitions (Mohla 2008)

11. Superstitions in Pakistan
• Reasons for Believing in Superstitions (Mohla 2008)
Reasons For Believing In
RESPONDENTS’ GENDER
Superstitions
Percentage of
BELIEVING
RESPONDENTS’
Experience 60.8
Observation
/Tradition
35.3
Religion 29.2
Ayesha Farooq et al, South Asian Studies, 27(2), 335, 2012

12. How to get rid of Superstitions???
• Learn the origins of the superstitions you believe in
• Realize that you have the power to make your own luck
• Expect the best instead of the worst

13. Conclusion
• Superstition has no logical explanation
• It can have good and bad effects on our life
• It can be present even in
educated people
• We can get rid of
superstition

14. Thanks
Questions?????