One has to question why belief in superstitions is so universal across human cultures to begin with, don't be so quick to dismiss it as reducing your fitness. P

One has to question why belief in superstitions is so universal across human cultures to begin with, don't be so quick to dismiss it as reducing your fitness. People did not have a logical understanding of why something like a rat king[1] was bad, or that lighting three cigarettes with one match was bad[2], but through the lens of superstition and "knowing" something bad would happen even without any higher understanding, it may have saved them. [1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king_(folklore) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_king_(folklore) [2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_on_a_match_(superstition) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_on_a_match_(superstition)