Superstition that has covered your minds. Let us be brave. Know the truth and practice the truth. The goal may be distant, but awake, arise and stop not till the goal is reached- Swami Vivekanand
India has been a religious country since the beginning of the earth. India is a land of God where people believe in God blindly. Many times we see strife among the people because of their religions, communities and casts. Sometimes people go wrong because of their creeds only. Some people are mossbacks. Since the beginning of this earth people began to believe in superstitions when they had a feeling that they were at the mercy of natural elements. Some superstitions also were created due to social values.
Forces of nature had ever been worshipped. Even the Greeks, the Pagans worshipped elements of nature in the forms of gods and goddesses. There were gods and goddesses among Pagans for every phenomenon or force of nature. So has it been with the ancient Indian tradition? The sun, moon, stars, planets, even plants were and continue to be worshipped with the belief that they have, the power to influence our lives.
It is the effect of some evil stars’ that is what people say when some disease or disaster overtakes them. This is what even the people of the West have been believing. Shakespeare has made full use of these superstitions in his plays. Ghosts and witches have been made significant characters by Shakespeare in his plays.
Calpurnia, the wife of Julius Ceasar, in Shakespeare’s play ‘ Julius Ceasar ’ sees a dreadful dream which foretells her of some grave tragedy befalling her husband. The horses are said to grow wild and eat one another before King Duncan is killed by Macbeth in the play Macbeth. Storms blow before tragedy overtakes King Lead in the play by Shakespeare. All these happenings show how people believed in such superstitions.
Student Author: Gayatri Joshi
Class 11th (Humanities)
