The black cat that crossed the road and other such superstitions...

A black cat crosses the road your path and you stop... cursing the cat for having crossed the road you realise you have 2 choices (a) wait where you are for 10 mins before walking ahead(b) take 7 steps back. All this to ward off the bad effect the black cat cast upon you just because it walked across the road.
This is such a weird practice isn't it? One accuses the cat of 2 things. Of being born a cat and of being born black. I don't think this happens with white cats, grey cats, brown cats or cats of any other colour. Why was the black cat singled out? Me thinks it was because it's black.

Me also thinks that cats are adorable animals. They're graceful, sharp, funnily playful and purr so nicely. So why should a black cat be seen as an evil thing which will spoil your day if it crosses your path? A black cat has crossed my path, i didn't stop or retread and something bad did NOT happen to me because of it.

Now, when droughts occur due to climatic changes, frogs are thought to be harbringers of rain. Why?? Because they revel and croak joyously when it rains? And what do people do when it doesn't rain? They catch hold of 2 frogs and get them married. Poor frogs.
Do humans who do this ensure that one is a 'boy' frog and one is a 'girl' frog. What if they are mistaken and get 2 'boy' frogs or 2 'girl' frogs married. :D
Well, that's not the point. The point is, what kind of a demented mind would think that getting 2 frogs married will bring rain? And then there are the frogs, cursing humans for picking them up from the pond, clasping them tightly in their hands lest the frogs hop away and conduct an alien (to the frogs) marriage ceremony.
1. Do frogs even think of marriage?
2. What makes humans assume that frogs will wish that the rains pour down if they torment them that way? Theyd'd probably wish for just the opposite for having pulled them out of their comfort zone.

Heard of women being married off to dogs and trees? The dog-woman marriage came in a movie and the tree-woman marriage became a big issue when it was claimed that an extremely popular actress was married off to it. All this so that the 'bad influence' that she carries with her is warded off? Warded off to what? The helpless tree and the so-not-thankful-about-the-marriage dog? I'm sure the trees and dogs will take the 'bad influence', multiply it by a 1000 and send it back to everyone around them. If that can actually happen...

So through all this, while us human folks build our lives on superstitions, the animals are hoping that we are fester and die and let them live in peace. Talk about bringing in goodwill to our lives huh...

While our beautiful country becomes richer, technologically advanced, changes for the better we don't seem to want to let go of practices which make no sense. I really wish people would stop making such fools of themselves in front of animals by not following these mindless practices. At the end of the day, that's what it is. Just a mindless superstition...