In cultures that use this practice, people knock on wood to ward off bad luck, and welcome in wealth or fortune. In modern times, it's believed that if you knock on wood when making a statement about ...

The number 13, black cats, breaking mirrors, or walking under ladders, may all be things you actively avoid – if you’re anything like the 25% of people in the US who consider themselves superstitious.

Do you suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia? That is, a morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th? If so, you're not the only one - apparently, President Franklin D. Roosevelt also suffered from it, ...

The number 13, black cats, breaking mirrors, or walking under ladders, may all be things you actively avoid – if you're anything like the 25% of people in the US who consider themselves superstitious.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to superstitions, many of us like to think we're above it all. But deep down, there's a little part of us that can't ...

Pope Leo XIV, during an address at the Vatican on Thursday, called for the “prudent” evaluation of supernatural phenomena to avoid falling into superstition. “To avoid falling into superstitious ...

Sometimes it's easy to let a superstition go as nothing more than that — a superstition. It might be fun to talk about and speculate on, but it's not really anything meaningful. Other times, however, ...