This tradition originating from Spain involves eating 12 grapes at midnight for good fortune throughout the year. Some trace ...

These unique New Year's Eve superstitions and traditions from around the world just may bring you love, good luck, health and ...

Santa Claus is real, as real as our hearts make him, or so I tell my skeptical daughter. I believe in superstition. Not in a ...

Stefon Diggs and Mack Hollins started a tradition of wearing matching practice clothes that has united the Patriots receiving corps during this season.

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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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 ...

Sometimes it's easy to let a superstition go as nothing more than that — a superstition. It might be fun to talk about and speculate on, but it's not really anything meaningful. Other times, however, ...

Do you avoid or have a fear of certain cat breeds with black fur? Are you always cautious to not step on a crack in the sidewalk? Does your heart rate elevate when someone opens an umbrella indoors?