Superstitions have long shaped our culture, influencing our beliefs about things like black cats, Friday the 13th, and ...

Crossing fingers, picking up pennies, searching for four-leaf clovers and avoiding black cats, sidewalk cracks, opening ...

Mountain superstitions of the Arkansas Ozarks, folk Catholicism and Mexican mythology collide in Jacquelin Zazueta's "Doily," ...

That strange ritual your great-grandmother swore by for staying healthy might have seemed like pure superstition, but it could have been based on legitimate medical principles that science didn’t ...

For more than six decades, the University of Chicago Folk Festival has brought together an array of musicians and performers from a diverse range of cultural backgrounds—all united through a love for ...

The Columbus Symphony Orchestra will begin its 103rd season with an international tour of music in a concert titled “Folk ...