Pregnancy and Superstitions: a Study on Filipino Beliefs and Practices on Pregnancy

The Filipino people value family, religion, selflessness and a hard work ethic. The culture of the Philippines is very family orientated, and the people value their Catholic religion above anything else. For the Experimental Learning Project, I interviewed Clavel Wells and she was born in the Philippines. She was fortunate enough to have grown up in a household that did not face extreme poverty, although that did not take away from her hard work ethic. Growing up in the Phillipines, everyone worked in the household to support the family. That has transpired into her life in America, and now she regularly works hard as her role as an LPN. She ensures to respect everyone she cares for, regardless of their cultural

Superstitio is made up of the prefix super, meaning above, and the verb stare, which means to stand or be firm; literally translated, supersitio means a belief in something that is above what is clear or concrete. The english word that we derive from superstitio, superstition, can usually be defined as “irrational faith in supernatural powers”, but according to Dale B. Martin,

In Philippines, most of the people are Catholic and people there are very religious. One of the most common superstition is when someone walks over someone when the other person is on the floor. When you walk over someone and they are on the floor, you are taking away their soul so if you accidently do that, you have to walk back over the person. Another one I know is when you go in the cemetery and after you are finished, you have to walk through smoke one you or wise the dead spirits will follow you. Do not cut down trees that has spirit living in it. You can tell by the look of the the tree. People say that the ones that looks old and very big are the ones that has spirits living in it. When you walk through a spirits property you have to tell them to excuse yourself by simply saying “excuse

Superstition is a belief based on past experiences and not facts. In the play, The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, the Puritans were living in Salem, Massachusetts but are very superstitious. Part of the reason why is because they are avid believers in two different worlds: the natural world and the invisible world. There are also strong believers in the idea that God gives signs, good or bad, to express how he feels about them during certain times. For example, a natural disaster may signify that the Puritans are doing something wrong. The Puritans were superstitious because they are paranoid people.

Life is full of superstition, whether you like it or not everybody has some sort of superstition in them. Some people don’t let some things go to their head like others do. Some people can get really stubborn if something suspicious happens. I am one of them people, it is really hard to get suspicion out of your head, it is one of them things that once you do it, it is hard to not have those thoughts in your head. And in the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn you will see the cause and effects of the use of suspicion. The main character, Huck Finn, used superstition as a means to keep him going in search of his true self and find interesting ways to live life the only way he knew.

The word superstition is often used very loosely, and should first be defined, before being used. “Derived from super 'above', and stare 'to stand', the Latin Superstitio signifies a 'standing over' or 'survival', describing an irrational or a credulous

       Likewise, in the essays, "New Superstitions for Old" by Margaret Mead and "Superstitious Minds" by Letty Cottin Pogrebin discussed the superstitious beliefs possessed by individuals as well as the ritual practices that followed with these superstitions. Margaret Mead and Letty Cottin Pogrebin noted every

Over the last month I have had the opportunity to spend time with some friends of our family. The culture in which I had the privilege was the Philippine Culture in Hercules, California, where the entire town is predominantly Filipino. The culture is rich in heritage and tradition as will be expressed throughout the remainder of this essay.

The Philippine culture believes in three types of illness, mystical, personalistic, and naturalistic. Mystical illness are associated with experiences or behaviors from ancestors, such as retribution for unfulfilled obligations. Personalisitic

There are a  multitude of superstitions, such as the belief in Russia that if a bird left excrement on your property, you would become rich. Another unusual superstition was that in Ancient Britain, people carried acorns with them so that they would stay young. This superstition might seem the strangest- the belief that if you look into a mirror, it captures your soul! Even though we have several strange superstitions, this is not close to the amount of superstitions people in the Middle Ages believed in. Unlike them, we have a vast expanse of knowledge that helps us understand life. People living in the Middle Ages did not, so they created a myriad of abnormal superstitions on what they did not understand. Superstitions are not scientifically proven, and should not be believed until proved otherwise. Just as nearly all myths and folk tales, the majority of superstitions are not real, but instead are

1. Include your results and discuss each measurement below, using the questions as a guide:

The author anticipates using various analysis techniques to examine the data from this research. Before beginning analysis, the author needs to code the following data: age, gender, and participation category. After coding, the author will then convert the raw data scores to descriptive statistics such as mean, mode, median, standard deviation, coefficients, and variance. Since, age and gender may act as possible moderators a multivariate analyses of variance is required to determine their

Very early on in the book superstition is established as one of the main themes. It is revisited several times, and is never taken lightly for the most

Superstitions have surrounded us since childhood, giving us all a healthy dose of fear every now

What is superstition? According to The Little Oxford Dictionary, superstition is "belief in the existence or power of the supernatural; irrational fear of the unknown; a religion or practice based on such tendencies; widely held but wrong idea." Let us examine that definition in depth. First, there is "belief in the existence or power of the supernatural". This means that there is believed to be some force that can influence the events on the Earth. Second, there is "irrational fear of the unknown." This has been endemic to the human race since the early days when a cave man did not know if that cave was safe to enter or if he would be attacked by a bear. Third, "a religion or practice based on such tendencies." This is the belief