Superstition

     Superstition is a rather queer enigma. Is it of the brain, or the mind, is it causal or reactionary effect? It is purely of the brain. Superstition is one more example of physical brain manipulation, in the sense that it is a reactionary effect. For example, you may have seen "blood on the moon" (which is an orange or red moon), one night, and learned the next day that someone close to you had passed on. Now your physical brain goes to work, puts together that seeing that moon means someone has passed, and in turn manipulates itself. That is how superstition started ages ago.

      Superstition can also be a causal effect. Everyone has heard that walking under a ladder is bad luck, and perhaps you believe it. Well, one day perhaps, you walk under a ladder. If you are a firm believer in superstition, your brain will automatically assume that bad luck is the result. Now, with your brain trying to figure out what bad luck is going to strike, your subconcious, (which is also part of the brain, and subject to manipulation), has the general aim to make this come true. In the end, you trip and break your leg, thus completing the cycle of causal and reactional superstition.   Yes, it may sound far-fetched, but your subconcious can be programmed to act  out what the brain thinks is needed, or what is "truth".  I have seen many cases of this happening, for better and worse.