It is considered inauspicious to travel towards the north on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and towards the south on thursdays. Some persons do not pay or lend money on Tuesdays and Fridays; they fear they will be reduced to poverty if they do so. Sneezing is regarded as a bad omen; if anybody sneezes before a journey is to be begun or some important work is to be started, it is postponed. If a cat crosses the way if a person is proceeding for important business, he fears that he will not succeed and goes back home.

In many European countries number thirteen is considered unlucky, and so many hotels do not contain rooms numbered 13. They believe that if 13 people sit at a dining table, one of them will die in a few days.

It is unfortunate that superstitions still persist in spite of the advancement of science. All superstitions are obviously baseless and absurd and prevent us from making progress in life. The Man is a rational being. He should not allow the clear stream of reason to lose its way into the dreary desert of superstition.