1-Harry Collis ”101 american superstition: understanding language and
culture through superstition” it was published by NTC Publishing
Group,U.S. (1 décembre 1997) this
book gives us an insight into American
customs, beliefs, and humor. Each superstition
is accompanied by an explanation
and then is used in a real-life context - either in a dialogue or in a
narrative - to show how these beliefs and behaviors fit into everyday life.
This lively text offers nonnative speakers of English a wealth of linguistic
and cultural information - while native speakers of English will enjoy seeing
these principles of folk wisdom illustrated with wit and whimsy.
2- Stuart Vyse “ believing in magic the psyhcology of supestition” 1994 it
was published by Oxford University Press by Stuart A. Vyse who is Joanne Toor
Cummings '50 Professor of Psychology at Connecticut College. renowned
superstition expert Stuart Vyse investigates our tendency towards these
irrational beliefs. Anyone remotely interested in
critical thinking should read this.
3- John O West “ Mexican-American folklore” 1988 this book was published by August House, it
includes american folklore series including superstitions and beliefs coming
with a definition of both of them and how to distinguish betweent them
4- Dale B.Martin “ inventing superstition” 2004 it was published by the
president and fellows of Harvard College. Dale Martin provides the
first detailed genealogy of the idea of superstition, its history over eight
centuries, from classical Greece to the Christianized Roman Empire of the
fourth century C.E. With illuminating reference to the writings of
philosophers, historians, and medical teachers he demonstrates that the concept
of superstition was invented by Greek intellectuals to condemn popular
religious practices and beliefs, especially the belief that gods or other
superhuman beings would harm people or cause disease.
Jim Hoagland “the dessert news” Friday, march 13,1942 jim Hoagland is the
journalist who write an article on the date above in the name of “ it’s a
coincidence not a bad luck, still it is Friday the thirteenth” interviewing a
girl named Barbara who celebrates her birthday of 13, Friday and who shows no
fear to that day as an unlucky day stressing that it is a coincident andnot a
superstition.
Sra Brennan “ Rome News-Tribune” Tuesday, avril 9,2002 is the journaliste
who wrote an article on the date above
named “was it just a coincidence?” investigating the events happened on
the attack of 11 septembre in the US considering the number 11 as an unlucky
number which was strongly present in that day.
Rev william’’ Beaver county Times” Saturday, january 17,1976 Rev William is the journalist who wrote the
article under the name of a religious message beyond superstition stressing
that any religion has a superstition inside it.
Evaluation
All of these sources have a common interest
which is superstition and its psychology.every source serves me in providing a
deffirent aspects of superstition in many areas
, in sport, education, religion,
culture and so on. Each of them complete the other in such a way. And provides
a very interesting information about superstition
in the american world and how american people dealswith that supernatural term
and to which extend they believe in it to come with the answer of the question is superstition in american
irrational abnormal or neither?
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