superstition
Anthropology – Scientific study of humans, human behavior, and societies Curse – Supernatural hindrance, or incantation intended to bestow such a hindrance Exorcism – Evicting spiritual entities from a person or area Faith – Confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept Fatalism – Family of philosophical doctrines Folklore – Expressive culture shared by particular groups James Randi – Canadian-American magician and skeptic (1928–2020) Occult – Knowledge of the hidden or the paranormal Paranormal – Purported phenomena beyond the scope of normal scientific understanding Pseudoscience – Unscientific claims wrongly presented as scientific Synchronicity – Jungian concept of the meaningfulness of acausal coincidences