Research Paper on Superstitions Superstitions have a way of making their way throughout the years. Superstition is a belief or practice generally regarded as irrational and resulting from ignorance or from fear of the unknown (The Encyclopedia of Superstitions 8). In The Crucible by Arthur Miller the concept of superstitions arose that there was witches among the community. Superstition and fear were in every house, in every mind, when accusation was a conviction, when assertion of innocence was regarded as a confession of guilt. Now the intelligent people know better that witches never existed, that human beings never bargained with any devil, and that our pious s