Superstitions

celebrate the summer solstice since 2009. Sounds fun, right? Except this is a dog meat festival that claims the lives of an estimated 10,000 dogs that are slaughtered and eaten. The belief that dog meat brings good health and good luck is the stupid superstition that drives this festival, where pots are filled with freshly peeled lychees and freshly slaughtered dogs. A HERO TO THE RESCUE On Saturday, June 20, animal rights advocate Yang Xiaoyun traveled more than 1,000 miles from her home…

Sculpture was brought to Rome from Greece. The aristocracy collected pieces of art. When the supply of Greek sculpture dwindled, the Romans started making their own. The Roman sculptures were more expressive than Greek sculptures that rarely displayed expression or emotion. (Kamm, n.d.). Their sculptures were admired even more for reality over flattery. The Romans used sculpture in a variety of fashions. The portrait sculpture was a way to pay homage to the emperors or gods. They were…

He belongs to the Acholi population, which believes in superstitions and spirituals. He declared himself the messiah for the people and justified his killings and abductions through claiming that he wants to establish the ten commandments of god. His main goal was to end the oppression of the north done by Museveni’s…

Very early in the book Merlin tells the reader what he thinks about Leanora Sutter, who is black. Merlin makes very racist and judgmental remarks about her. Throughout Hesse’s book superstition is an underlying theme. Merlin is superstitious, he talks about Leanora putting a spell on him after he thinks of her as a witch. Merlin is easily persuaded. He is very much in love with Mary. Mary wrote a note to Merlin telling him to break her…

sexual with her doesn’t make sense to me. Anyway, to escape that uncomfortable discussion, as soon as I read Lucia’s cat is black, I thought, “Lucia is a witch!” With countless TV shows, movies, stories and illustrations I understand the basic superstition that witches’ trusty companion is a black cat. Also describing Lucia as “witchy” drives that notion…

antiquities and their sciences; with these, and with figures, and certain signs in the figures, they understood their matters, made them known, and taught them. We found a great number of books in these letters, and since they contained nothing but superstitions and falsehood of the devil we burned them all, which they took most grievously, and which gave them great pain.” He said that the Mayan texts were lies of the devil, so they burned most of them. Today we can read some of the books, we…

(Gunyup 1). At the time, the majority of people that practiced voodoo were slaves, therefore they were thought of as not being human, but as property. The slave owners at the time became fearful of religion and, “Their religion was dismissed as superstition, their priests were denigrated as witchdoctors, their Gods and Spirits were denounced as evil,” (Haas). If someone…

Much of the world today has been greatly influenced by concepts that originated and thrived during the Age of Enlightenment. What was considered important in historical times may no longer be major priorities of today. Much of what people consider to be important depends on their culture and their society. Is personal freedom more important than government? Is rational thought more valuable than religious rights? It is all relative and depends entirely upon the person contemplating these…

characters a reliance on superstitions. Jim, in particular, believes that the events in his life are caused by recognizable, but insignificant, correlations. Early in the book, Jim is introduced to the reader as a mystic who uses a hair ball to read fortunes; "Jim had a hairball as big as your fist, which had been took out of the fourth stomach of an ox, and he used to do magic with it. He said there was a spirit inside of it that knowed everything “ (2). The belief of superstition is often…

was making people have a disgust towards riches so the church can enjoy the money themselves. Another reason why people were in favor of the church and state to be separate and the destruction of the church was because of the church was based on superstition and not reason. Burke would argue against these…