Show nearly half iff of people superstitious A NOW FOR LUCK h AS N jf if pick your W washington teeth with a ken en from a a tree which has boon been struck by lightning will you ever have tooth ache this and three thousand other varieties of superstitious beliefs having been investigated by dr P F B dresslar professor of af psychology in the university of alabama ho he found that 45 per cent of the people whom he questioned believed in them this was iwas ills his declaration in an ad address diess before the medico psychological association one of the branches branches of the amerlean american congress of physicians and surgeons superstitions and superstitious beliefs are still powerful factors in hu man mail lie he said and as far as known superstition is exclusively a human manifestation not being known among lower animals it it is due he added to an animistic animist tc con caption of the universe which holds holdi that sticks and stones stoned play a part lu ID the life of man and conspire e against him mans superstitious beliefs are variable lie he declared changing witt with ills his condition of mind and body and even with the weather and nd tinie time ol of lay day ghosts existing only at night the learned professor talked about tile the thirteen hoodoo which so man mail persons person 3 fears fear while friday came in for the usual comment some persons think it is bad luell lucli to dress one foot at a time that I 1 is S to put both stocking and shoe on oil the right kight foot or left foot before putting the stocking on the other foot bi d course you all have heard about the good luck that is sure to come if yot yoi happen to put a stocking on wrong side out by mistake and wear it thal thai way all day |