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Individuals will also develop personal sets of superstitions as accords the events of personal experience. If one were to break one's arm while chewing gum for the first time, one may decide to not chew gum again, especially if it were to happen twice in a row. Superstition is an interpretation of events such that one thing symbolizes another, as the sight of a black cat on Sunday may indicate back luck. The symbol may represent either positive or negative events in the future. These symbols are usually called signs. Superstition also entails the modification of one's behavior so as to prevent or promote future events. This behavior is symbolic of the prevention or promotion of specific eventuality. 'The baseball player always removes and replaces his cap before he bats.' The catalog of signs and symbols is a symbolic language. This language is interpreted or read by the context of what happens in the individual's reality or the reality of a broader group or community.
Interpretive Context can also take the form of mythology, as a broadly shared and culturally extant symbolic language, pertaining to both ordinary and extraordinary circumstance. The frame of reference generally consists in a pantheon of various god or spirit figures, sprites, leprechauns, fairies, spirits, nymphs or muses. These figures are said to possess specific fields of influence. For instance the influence of the Greek god Zeus pertained to the sky and the heavens and thus events of thunder and lightening could be attributable to him. The influence of his wife Hera concerned domestic things as home, hearth and family. If a dish is broken in the kitchen it could be attributed to the displeasure of Hera. Affairs of war might be attributable to Athena the goddess of war.
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