Showing posts with label Superstition. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Superstition. Show all posts

Saturday, June 02, 2007

I'm Not Superstitious (Touch Wood)

I'll Just Keep Holding My Four-Leaf Clover

Thanks, Bellur, for blogrolling me at your site Rambling With Bellur. I also enjoyed your post about superstitions. I grew up in India, where superstitions play a big part in the everyday lives of people of all religious faiths. As a former sports journalist, I always marvelled at how world-class sportsmen and women readily confessed to their own little idiosyncracies. Steve Waugh had his lucky red towel, while Sunil Gavaskar always wore something new for a Test match, even if it was a new pair of shoe laces! I can honestly say I am not superstitious at all - but there is a segment in my novel `Vegemite Vindaloo' where one of the characters burns red chillies over her son's head to ward off evil. Do you know anyone who is superstitious? Leave a comment and tell me about it ....