Superstitions exist among highly educated, rich people and uneducated people belonging to low classes. Superstitions encourage people to believe that a certain action can cause an unrelated event. For example, if a person wakes up in the morning and sees cats playing, rest of his day will be wasted. Spilling coffee can bring good luck. Superstitions are therefore associated with achieving good luck or avoiding bad luck, although they usually seem illogical or unconvincing.
Superstitious beliefs can effect one s thoughts, behavior and decisions.
There is an ancient superstition that the number 13 brings bad luck. Some big hotels do not put number 13 on their rooms, or even skip the 13th floor on the elevator buttons. For me, I feel pessimistic on the 13th of each month and I always think that something bad will happen to me, Maurice said. Yasmine Adel, an economics junior, said that people who depend on these superstitions to solve their problems without trying to see other more effective, or logical methods are passive and living in an illusion. It was so funny when my friend's mother got a cat and put it beside her daughter on her wedding day because she believes that if a cat sneezes near the bride, she will have a happy life, said Marwa Mahmoud, an engineering junior.