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Beware of the black cat because it forebodes destruction for you! Breaking a glass on the eve of a journey brings seven years of bad luck! There are witches and black magicians who can cast a spell on you and make you respond mechanically to their dark wishes. Such beliefs still exist in our ‘educated’ society.Superstitions, according to some thinkers, are man’s attempt to know the unknown and explain the inexplicable. For example, a man has two serious accidents on Thursdays in a particular year. Next year he has another accident on a Thursday. He reaches the profound conclusion that God does not want him to travel on Thursdays. He therefore consults an astrologer about preventing ill-luck on a Thursday.Astrologers nowadays are generally well- spoken and highly educated cheats. They…

Article 17 of the Constitution provides that untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden. The enforcement of any disability arising out of “untouchability”, is nowhere defined in the Constitution. If it is so practiced it shall be dealt with as an offence punishable in accordance with the law. Article 17 makes two provisions. Firstly, it announces that untouchability is abolished and its practice in any form is forbidden. Secondly, it declares that the enforcement of any disability arising out of “untouchability” shall be an offence punishable in accordance with law. Image Source: cdn.yourarticlelibrary.comIn Bangalore W.C. & S. Mills v. Mysore State. AIR 1956 S.C. Mysore 85, “untouchability” has been given the correct meaning. The word, “untouchability” refers to the chronic social vice which is a deliberate…