James Danelle Quiñonez

Grade 10 – Emerald
10 Superstitions Belief
1. You should not walk over someone if they are lying down because they will never grow taller.
2. You should not sleep while you are hungry because your spirit will go to a place where there’s
food and it will become trapped there.
3. If you get a wound, a grain of rice or trains will come out of it.
4. You should jump on New Year’s Eve, so you’ll get taller and grow faster.
5. If you take a picture with 3 people the middle person will die.
6. If you sleep with wet hair, it will make you crazy, bald, or blind.
7. If you are lost, turn your clothes inside out because the elves are teasing you.
8. Dropping utensils means that someone’s coming. If a spoon falls, a woman will come. If a
fork falls, a man will arrive.
9. If you point your finger at night or at trees at night you have to bite your finger because if you
don’t, you’ll have bad luck.
10. When you bite your tongue, choose a number between 1 to 26 and determine its
corresponding letter from the alphabet. The first one that pops into your head whose name starts
with that letter means that the person just thought about you.

Research
1. Idolatry
- Idolatry is the worship of an idol or cult image, being a physical image, such as a statue, or a
person in place of God.
2. Superstition
- A widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences
of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief.
3. Divination
- The practice of seeking knowledge of the future or the unknown by supernatural means.
4. Magic
- The power of apparently influencing the course of events by using mysterious or supernatural
forces.
5. Sacrilege
- Violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred.
6. Simony
- The buying or selling of ecclesiastical privileges, for example pardons or benefices.
7. Atheism
- Disbelief or lack of belief in the existence of God or gods.