What is the most irrational superstition you have heard about?

My dad used to swear you can not be stuck by lighting as long as you had on sneekers. Supposidly you were grounded.
Also a car since it had rubber tires. WRONG!

Also have to wait to swim after you eat, due to cramps and being parallized.

A fricken rock can save you, people collecting crystals and rocks for protection.

My working adage is: If’s it’s not science it’s superstition.

They are all so irrational it's hard to think which is the silliest!

Perhaps those that are "inspired" by spotting something scientific and inventing a superstition around it, usually to make money from it, such as all that "healing crystals" rubbish.

Or "ley lines". A ley-line is a line drawn between two sacred sites or buildings on a map, produced until it meets others. This is easy in most European countries thanks to their having been settled quite intensively by various cultures for many thousands of years; leaving the British Isles and the Continent liberally sprinkled with all sorts from Neanderthal burial traces to modern churches.

A ley-line is imagined to trace either an ancient path that did not exist; or sillier, a flow of undefined "energy" - perhaps both. The nature, intensity and method of measurement of that "energy" are ignored by the ley-line fans, blissfully ignorant of basic physics.


I wonder if the "magic crystals" idea may have arisen from someone having read somewhere that quartz is piezoelectric, so without bothering to understand that, pretended this, the most abundant natural rock mineral, has properties that are just not real. The belief makes a living for assorted quacks selling fey knick-knacks to dreamy New Age-y visitors in towns like Glastonbury. )

That if the rich were richer the money would trickle down

When black cats cross my path, I always draw an X.

So many of them, idk where to start lmao

Probably the rock that keeps tigers away:

"How does it work?"
"It doesn't work, it's just a stupid rock! But you don't see any tigers around, do you?"
"I'd like to buy your rock!"

That there is a heaven and a hell

Are there any rational superstitions?

Isn't a superstition irrational by definition? 🤔

Or is the keyword here, most?

when I will think and evil thought and hit my head I will think god was punishing me.

Changing your shirt during the day changes your luck for the worst

The superstitions that supposedly have proofs. 🙃

Saying "God bless you" when someone sneezes.

There are two stories of why we do that, and both of them are a little silly.

microchips in vaccines 🙄

My grandmother was the superstition queen, no hat or shoes on the bed, stop a rocking chair when you get off of it, step on a dropped object twice before picking it up, say bread and butter if walking and someone passes between you, salt over the left shoulder, black cat crossing paths, stay in bed on friday the 13th, do not break a mirror, cover mirrors during wakes, do not step on cracks, do not go out during full moons, stay out of graveyards at night, and so many others I cannot remember.

Black albinos are magical , or cursed .

Albinos are either magical or evil