HW7: Superstition Related to food (Article2)

Many people believes that there are a lot of superstition in any kinds of food. Like what we called the egg shells.It says that it brings real luck or good luck to people. The story of this goes that as per superstition if you do not crush the egg shells after having the egg they will be gathered by a witch who will then use the shells to make a boat for herself. Thus if you crushed the shells, they would be of no use to her. Another superstitious food is the salt. Spilling salt is considered unlucky. The only way out to turn back the bad luck is to throw some salt with your right hand over your left shoulder. It is also considered to be bad luck if you pass salt to another person. Folks believe that if you throw some salt on the windows and threshold of a new house, you can protect it from the evil eye. the garlic is also consider as superstition because it used in food and medicine since ancient times also has a strong superstition attached to it. The legend has it that the way to repel an evil eye is by carrying a piece of garlic with you. Garlic was supposed to be a powerful   deterrent against werewolves and vampires.  Hallow and crossed bread, According to the legend, if you came across a hole in a loaf of bread that you cut, it stands for a coffin and means that someone will die soon. Now, that's a strange one considering most loaves of baked bread have holes in them. The other superstition says that all loaves of bread must be marked with a sign of the cross before baking. The intention was to thwart the devil from sitting on the loaf and spoiling the bread.

     To summarize it, all I can say that even food have their own superstitious belief. It will defend on us on how we will believe it. It your decision if people continuing believe on it. As a writer of this research paper, I can say that food is one of the important aspect of our live, if we don't have any food it is so hard to live.