They say that superstition can be a positive force: 'It gives you sense of controle by making you think you can work out whwat's going to happen next. And it also makes you feel lucky. And to take a risk or to enter into a chancy situation, you really have to neliee in your own luck. In that sense, it's a very useful way of thinking, becuase the alternative is fatalism, which is to say: Oh, there is nothing I can do. At least superstition makes people do thing. (quoted form the Guardian 12/14/2002)
