When the tall, dark, handsome man shows up with a gift, let’s hope it is black-eyed peas and collards. The combination, staples on Southern tables on New Year’s Day, are said to represent coins and ...

The Supreme Court on Monday stayed a Delhi High Court order suspending ex-BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh Sengar's life sentence in the ...

First, we knocked on wood. Then we asked a visual artist, a designer, a psychic medium, a makeup artist and a conductor to each reveal their biggest superstitions. Credit...Daniele Castellano ...

Whether it’s wearing a specific jersey — or in the case of Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s interpreter, lucky boxers with a rabbit shooting a rainbow-colored laser out of its eyes — or making sure you’re ...

Why are we conditioned to associate things like black cats, Friday the 13th, and mirrors with bad luck and eeriness? The answer lies deep within stories of mythology, ancient civilization, religious ...

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We all have our superstitions. When it comes to supporting our favorite sports teams, we’ll do whatever it takes to get a win — whether that means growing a beard, hiring a witch to lift a ‘curse’ or ...

When it comes to superstitions, many of us like to think we're above it all. But deep down, there's a little part of us that can't help but wonder if maybe—just maybe—there's something to these ...

Skiers, like team sports fans, have hunches. They’ve made observations or fabulated mystical connections that may or may not exist. Like everyone else on Earth, they’re human, and they’re plenty ...

Let's talk about some of them and what they mean. Here's our list of the top 10 superstitions Nigerians still follow. We may laugh at these superstitions sometimes, but when we begin to see their ...