Skeptophilia

I don't own many things that are all that old. I'm referring to human-made objects, of course.  I have a couple of Devonian-age brac...

A pretty common belief in many different cultures is that inanimate objects can have, or can be imbued with, supernatural powers. It's n...

Well, it's happened again; a reader has sent me a weird superstition (this one almost amounts to an urban legend) that I'd never hea...

Seems like for each of the last few years, we've said, "Well, at least next year can't be as bad as this year was!"  Then,...

Amongst the downsides of being superstitious is that sometimes, you find out you're in for some bad luck. A girl I went to college with ...

I was chatting with my friend, author and all-around cool person K. D. McCrite , a couple of days ago about superstitions. It probably won...

I'm perpetually astonished at how little it takes to get the woo-woos going. I suppose, though, that's the definition of confirmat...

Well, it's happened again; a reader has sent me a weird superstition (this one almost amounts to an urban legend) that I'd never hea...

Today's question is: how far should you go in accommodating people's irrational superstitions? The whole question comes up because...