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Allelse · 36-40, M
That its a culmination of smaller superstitions which were created in an attempt by our ancestors to make sense of a vastly complicated and unpredictable universe. I mean life is scary even in our day and age, but imagine being poor cave man Joe and you're going along and cave man Jimmy suddenly drops dead. I mean in our day and age old caveman Jimmy would get an autopsy and we'd work out what is wrong, but how is caveman Joe supposed to know or understand that his friend just had an aneurysm. But being a slightly intelligent fellow whose good at problem solving he tries to come up with the best answer he can, and the fact that that answer might be 'Evil spirits!!!' well he was only doing the best he could to make sense of what happened.