3. Quick & Flupke - Bluffmasters - Superstition

Ok !! You have all read or at least are aware of  comic book series named "The Adventures of Tintin".

The writer and illustrator is "Herge", who is also the same for the series "Quick & Flupke". Unlike Tintin, where you have a continuous plot and the central characters keep playing around making you laugh, Quick & Flupke is full of short gags, which are at times damn hilarious.

The main characters in the series as the name indicates are "Quick" and "Flupke". These two kids just keep playing pranks, either consciously or unconsciously and there is one "Agent 15", who is the local policeman and is always on a look out for the two kids. Most of the times "Agent 15" becomes a kid himself and joins the two in playing pranks.

There are 11 comic books in the series and this one, i.e. "Bluffmasters" is the penultimate of the published books. So the title "Superstition" is one of the gags, which starts of with Flupke telling Quick that crossed knives in a plate bring bad luck and keeps mentioning about things that bring bad luck/good luck like stepping out of house with the left foot,walking under a ladder, a cat crossing your path etc. Quick keeps on trying to convince Flupke that he should not believe in Superstitions. Eventually, they meet up in a hospital at bed nos 13 and 13a and Flupke adds that now they are in super bad situation.

I don't really know what was the lesson inherent, but it is definitely an indication that how much effect do superstitions have in one's life ! This eventually makes me ask one question of whether or not someone controls the existence? If yes, the who controls him? Anyways, lets not get all metaphysical here and try and look at some of the weirdest facts that I am aware of:

• 'Number 13 is bad and brings bad luck - Friday, the 13th is the deadliest !!'. Alright, does that mean we stop living after we are 13, that someday we are gonna die?
• 'If there is an itch in your right hand, you are going to get money'. Man, I made my right hand bleed, damn I am still broke.
• 'You should not pass a green chilli from hand to hand, it makes each other enemies and fight'. Never works, tried it on all people whom I wanted to get into a fight with.
• 'If you get hiccups, someone's remembering you'. I tried everything to make them go away, but they never stop remembering me.
• And this is the last that I am posting:
• 'Give him boiled food, when he is sick, especially when he has jaundice'. Why don't you just ask me to stay on water? A poor sick guy should be given proper nourishment. Agreed, that it should not be a "RICH" diet, but a basic diet is a "MUST".

Anyways, if you come across such superstitions, just lay back and think if it has a scientific reasoning to it and may be then, it might have a decipherable meaning. 

Till then, Adios,

PS: I probably missed, but thats because I was travelling the whole lot, so this should be counted to be in for yesternight.