A superstition is "a belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or a false conception of causation" or "an irrational abject attitude of mind toward the supernatural, nature, or God resulting from superstition." Join historian Colonial Williamsburg’s Dr. Kelly Arehart as she explores the nature of 18th-century superstitions and folk beliefs, feelings which were much more complicated than just horseshoes and black cats. Learn what their beliefs and practices can tell us about the minds of people of the past HERE.