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So, in elementary school, they teach us what "superstition" means. It means not wanting to walk under a ladder, for fear of bad luck, for example. It means staying away from houses with the address number 666. It means believing that when a black cat crosses your path, you get bad luck. It means the number 13 is an unlucky number. Yes and no to all these questions. I sometimes didn't walk under a ladder growing up. I'm not superstitious about houses with the address number 666. A black cat crossing my path is NOT bad luck to a Wiccan, and neither is the number 13. In fact, it is a lucky number. Being afraid of things that are normally Wiccan or Satanic or otherwise Occult is wrong, in my opinion. We ought not to let fear govern our lives. But the reason I say I sometimes didn't walk under a ladder growing up is because we're all superstitious in one way or another. I used to throw salt over my shoulder for good luck. Ever hear of the one "step on a crack break your mother's back/step on a line you break your mother's spine" so I played the game. Wicca is also supposed to be about fun. My question to you, and I had wanted to take a poll but I can't figure out how to do this, but on a scale of 1 to 10, how superstitious are you? How many times do you use luck charms or cast spells? What does superstition mean to you? I could look up the dictionary definition of it, but they generally teach us not to be superstitious in grade school. How has superstition or lack of superstition affected you and your life, before and after you decided to be a Wiccan or some other kind of spell caster?