Of all professions, actors are the most superstitious. The likely cause is their vivid imagination and strong sense of fantasy; requirements if you are to be in theatre. In his book, Supernatural on Stage, Richard Hugget describes the actor's situation thus "it is not our bodies which we actors endanger, but our hearts and souls: it is not bullets nor storms nor bombs nor cave-ins we fear but the most deadly and unpredictable and relentless of all natural forces-public opinion and fashion." This is the artistic and emotional turmoil in which superstitions take root and flourish.

This web site explores theater superstitions as a class project for Folklore at College of the Siskiyous. The links to the right explain some of the more popular beliefs and practices. The "About" link is my analysis of my research and the "Survey" link explains the limited survey I conducted among theatre students at SOU. (This site is doubling as a class project for Mike Gatenbein's Web Design class at SOU!)

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