This is a dummy run.A rumour spread that Shiva was drinking water. So people thronged to see it at a temple at Kankinara in North 24 Parganas in West Bengal.
Superstition is a credulous belief or notion, not based on reason, knowledge, or experience. The word is often used pejoratively to refer to folk beliefs deemed irrational. This leads to some superstitions being called "old wives' tales". It is also commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, prophecy and spiritual beings, particularly the irrational belief that future events can be foretold by specific unrelated prior events.The etymology is from the classical Latin superstitio, literally "a standing over", hence: "amazement, wonder, dread, especially of the divine or supernatural" The word is attested in the 1st century BC, notably in Livy and Ovid, in the meaning of an unreasonable or excessive belief in fear or magic, especially foreign or fantastical ideas. Cicero, however, derives the term from the phrase "...superstites essent, superstitiosi sunt appellati": parents indulging in excessive prayer and sacrifice hoping that their children "would be survivors, are called superstitious". By the 1st century AD, it came to refer to "religious awe, sanctity; a religious rite" more generally.
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