Jagrik name – Omme Habiba                      

Cohort number – 1 (Bhagowanpur High School)

Task – (FD5SG2) –Identify five personal superstitions that you regularly follow/believe in and abstain from them for a week, with three testimonials to verify your act.

Experience-

The peer listed out five superstitions that she used to follow:

1. If a black cat crosses your path, it’s a bad omen.
2. Twitching of eye is inauspicious.
3. Praying while seeing pair of common mynas will bring good luck.
4. It’s inauspicious to remove gold ornaments from body at night.
5. Not to cut nails after sunset.

The peers abstain from them for a week as per the task. In the beginning, abstaining from following them was difficult as it was habitual but later the habit has changed.

1. She was afraid that if a black cat crosses her path and if she passes that, she will have all the bad luck. But one day, she dared to pass that without giving a second thought. She was afraid that something bad might happen with him but everything went fine. After this incident, she stopped in believing in this superstition.
2. After knowing the actual reason behind the superstition “Not to cut nails after sunset”, she stopped believing in that.
3. She believed in the superstition that removing gold ornaments at night is inauspicious. But later her friend told the actual reason behind it that since gold is a precious ornament and in previous days there was no electricity, so while removing gold it might get lost. So from there it was made a superstition to let everyone follow them and to stop everyone from losing it. After knowing this, she stopped believing in this superstition.

Learning-

Being superstitious can affect our behavior and state of mind, influencing everything from our preparation and performance on a particular challenge. We have to stop believing in superstition and find out the actual reason behind it.

Challenges –

At first, she was afraid of the consequences of not following the superstitions but later she dared to not follow them and start learning the actual reasons behind them.