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The vernacular or people's culture that prevails in a modern society.

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Counting crows

Entertainment; Popular culture

It's believed that the amount of crows in a murder has the ability to predict your fortune as exemplified by the popular phrase: "One's bad / Two's luck / Three's health / Four's wealth / Five's ...

Soul capturing mirrors

Entertainment; Popular culture

Most people use mirrors everyday which means, according to this superstition, most people are soulless. There is a superstition that states that looking into a mirror steals your soul. This helps ...

To cross one's fingers is a hand gesture commonly used for good luck. Which makes sense since it was used during ancient Christian persecution by believers to identify other believers as a sign of ...

Photographic soul cage

Entertainment; Popular culture

When photography was first invented in the early 19th century, people all over the world held the unfounded belief that taking someone's picture was akin to taking his soul. Thus if an enemy was able ...

When you wish upon a star

Entertainment; Popular culture

The superstition involving wishing on the first star you see in the evening is somewhat uncertain, however Europeans believed that the gods would occasionally peer down, and when they moved the sky, ...

Opening an umbrella indoors

Entertainment; Popular culture

According to superstition, if you open an umbrella indoors you are literally asking for bad luck to "rain on you". One explanation comes from the days when umbrellas were used as protection from the ...

Good luck horseshoe

Entertainment; Popular culture

Some people believe in order to bring good luck and to keep nightmares away, you must hang a horseshoe in the bedroom or on a door knob with its ends pointing upwards. This belief stems from the fact ...