Superstitions

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines superstition as "unreasonable or irrational or groundless awe, fear, notion or belief about something unknown, mysterious, or imaginary, especially in regard of religion; religious belief or practice based upon fear or ignorance; in specific meaning: An irrational religious belief or practice; a tenet, scruple, habit, etc. based on fear or ignorance". Today your curators of the curious, the something perplexing podcast, take a look at the backgrounds, the sources, the reality and baselessness of superstitions..