We fear what we do not not know and cannot explain with any surety.
If talk about superstitions scares someone so much they have to dismiss it as 'mumbo-jumbo' (a Mande word meaning 'masked dancer' ) then that says more about them than the idea they dismiss.
History is full of dismissive people who have scorned what later became world-beating ideas and inventions, particularly in the field of medicine, anatomy, astronomy, science and technology.
We can now print human organs but I vividly remember this idea being shot down as science-fiction. Thank goodness we don't listen to the doomsayers.
In my view, it is better (and more interesting) to have an open mind: listen, learn, evaluate and maybe advance, than to slam the door immediately on every little thing outside our ken. That smacks of superstition!
The paranormal is a fascinating subject simply because it is beyond rational explanation.
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