Summary:
Essay gives a definition of superstitions, and attempts to answer why people believe in them.
It is a full moon on Friday the thirteenth. Mary Jo wakes up on the opposite side of the bed that she went to sleep on. While she is brushing her hair, her brush flings at the mirror. Thirteen new cracks now lay embedded in the mirror. She picks up her hat that she left on her bed and heads out the door. While she walks to school she somehow steps on every crack in the sidewalk. She sees a penny and picks it up. Of course, the tails side was showing. While a detour sign points her to walk under a ladder blocking the sidewalk, a black cat crosses her path. At school her umbrella mysteriously opens up inside and at lunch she spills salt all over the floor. Is Mary Jo worried? Of course.....
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