The article discusses superstitions as a cultural phenomenon, the author describes features of their functioning in multicultural literary text and possibility classifying them national precedent phenomena. Particular attention is paid to images, situations, traditions artifacts.

on popular superstitions and omens. There is also a short account of the Imperial Service Troops. Part 2 is devoted to an account of the state of public instruction and to the sanitary conditions of the States, as regards water-supply, drainage, roads, railways, &c. Part 3 gives descriptions of the principal fairs, a history of previous famines, &c. In Part 4 we find descriptions of the food su...

Our body needs food everyday that supplies all the nutrients in required amount to keep the body healthy. But eating of food sometimes gets affected by socio- cultural factors that condition the dietary habits of the people which contribute significantly to nutritional deprivation in the communities, these faulty feeding habits arising from ignorance, superstitions, and social prejudices have b...