„Superstions origin” (ok 350 slow)

Writing about history of all superstitions would be rather hard, so I will write only about a few. Most of them have their roots in the ancient times, like for example not greeting your guest at the door. In ancient Rome people did not do it (especially at dark nights) because they never knew if the person that had just come wanted to kill the master of the house. Before greeting each other two people had to stand face to face and shake hands (it was done to show that we do not have any weapons in our hand).
And how do you think: why is spilt salt known of bringing quarrels? You can be surprised by the answer! The beginning of this superstition lies in Middle Ages. At that time salt was VERY expensive. Only the richest could let themselves buy this rare spice. You can imagine a great quarrel when a servant spilt it... Sometimes he was even sentenced to death for something like that! This is why people remembered spilt salt as a bad luck of a bringer.
And why should we not go under a ladder? I find the answer to this question pretty funny. We ought not to do it because someone very heavy can be on it and at the moment we are passing under it he can fall down. Imagine a fat man falling on you from the sky... that would be terrible. There is also a superstition that says that we should not walk under a pole but I do not know what could possibly fall from up there.
The last superstition I will talk about is not very well-known. It says that before you go on a trip you should sit for about five minutes so that you would have somewhere to come back to. It is a Russian superstition from the times of Ivan the Ferocious. When you were going to Moscow you never knew if you came back alive. That’s why everyone sat for a few minutes before living their home, once more looking at it as he could never come back.