Superstition

1: What's your favorite superstition?
2: Hit your mother in the back with a sledgehammer, break your mothers back.
1: I don't think that counts as a superstition.
2: Well that depends on the meaning of superstition. Super means greater than or above.
1: In this case I think it's a reference to supernatural. Above or beyond natural. Unnatural.
2: Nothing natural about hitting your mother in the back with a sledgehammer.
1: Well if you put it that way.
2: But what does stition mean?
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This post is an installment in a continuing series of content coordinated by theme or motif with posts John Allred of clol Town, Jon Fairbanks of Funkadelic Freestylings of Another Sort, Eli Z. McCormick and Miriam Allred of Modern Revelation!, John D. Moore of Whatnot Studios, Joseph Schlegel of Sour Mayonnaise, Sven Patrick Svensson of Sadness? Euphoria?, William C. Stewart of Chide, Chode, Chidden, and WiL Whitlark of The Real McJesus. This week's theme: 'Superstition'.