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Superstition is a belief or practice irrationally maintained by ignorance or by faith in magic or chance. Superstition is totally unscientific; however, there is a lot superstitious culture on over the world. Different superstitions will be found in different countries. Asia which is a cradle of the world’s culture has a lot of mystery, legend of super natural power, a lot of superstitious culture. Viet Nam is one of Asian countries; so there are many superstitious people and culture in my country Viet Nam. First of all, every Vietnamese family is superstitious. The Vietnamese attach great importance to two traditional family obligations: to care for their parents in their old age and to worship them after death. So in each Vietnamese family has at least altar on which there are the pictures of their ancestors. Family members worship their ancestor, because they think parents after death will go to live in another world and this altar is the place where the ancestors’ soul live in. So every day, Vietnamese people not only lay the table for meal but they also lay the food on the altar; they believe that those ancestors will have a meal with them. Furthermore, the superstition of praying ancestors’ soul is the most common one