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Exploring the origins of 13 popular superstitions

Image: A woman opens an umbrella indoors
A woman ignoring the superstition about opening an umbrella in the house.Getty Images
By Samantha Okazaki
Happy Friday! Explore the origins of 13 enduring superstitions
Hulton Archive

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Happy Friday! Explore the origins of 13 enduring superstitions

Learn about the roots of popular superstitions that have been clinging, barnacle-like, to the human psyche for decades.