Modern science can explain many things, but life is still governed largely by chance. In Lithuania, as in the rest of the world, Paul Beckman found that superstitions are one way people deal with it.The human race has accomplished wonderful things: rocketing to the moon, turning lights on and off with the clap of the hands, cloning sheep. Nonetheless, old-fashioned superstitions continue to survive.In Lithuania, as it is elsewhere, this is true. Zilvytis Saknys, an ethnographer at the Historical Institute in Vilnius, said Lithuania has hundreds of thousands of superstitions. Of course, wi...
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