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Name: Umul Banin Roll no: 108 Subject: Creative writing “Superstitions” Walking on the road towards the market with my mother, suddenly a black crossed our way. My mother stopped me and said, “Let’s go from another path. If we cross from this way something bad will happen to us as the black cat has crossed our way”. When we reached at market my slipper broke. My mother immediately said, “See, I told you something bad will happen to us today because of that black cat who crossed our way”. I was confound to hear that because I couldn’t understand the logic behind that. My slipper was too old and about to break, what’s the fault of that innocent cat who was just going on her own way. My mother said, “Everyone used to say this and this is the truth. Don’t ask unnecessary questions”. I was a kid at that time, so I believed it but when I grew up, I came to know that these so called notions are known as superstitions. The word originates with the ancient Romans, as opposite of some...