Nice topic Harini. 😊.
The way I see it superstitions come in two forms. Some superstitions are based on fact as you have stated above. When the tide goes out, move to higher ground. This is a common occurance during a tsunami and it is something that holds some truth when it occurs out of character so to speak. But this would be a phenomenom (can't spell today) and maybe not a superstition, as is the silence in the air before a storm or before a bomb going off (don't ask😆). 😕
Top UK superstitions and the reason for them:
1. Black cats are unlucky - Handed down from the times when people believed in witches and these were their companions. Many thought that the witches turned into cats at times.
2. Break a mirror, seven years bad luck - circulated in the times when mirrored glass was very expensive and only the rich used to have them. If a servant broke one, it would take them seven years to pay back the cost to the owner of the mirror from their salary.
3. Bad luck to walk under ladders - speaks for itself. If you walk under a ladder something may fall on you. So it will be bad luck if you walked under one and something fell on you.
4: Magpies = The song goes "one for sorrow, two for joy, three for a girl and four for a boy, five for silver, six for gold, seven for a secret never to be told. Many people view a single magpie as a bad omen and will go through certain rituals to avert any bad luck coming their way. The fact behind this is, apparently, magpies mate for life and so to see a solitary one means that it has lost its mate.
There are many other supersititions doing the rounds. Sometimes you have to sift out what the truth is.
I am not clued up on cultural superstitions so forgive me if I seem a bit niave but those that I have heard about, mostly after childbirth, would only relate to the happenings and circumstances at that particular time. As the world has evolved, so have we. So why do many people still give revelance to this superstitions?
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