Hello and welcome back to the Curious Kid podcast. When we started this podcast, almost

three and a half years ago, we didn't get enough mail from our listeners to take listener

suggestions every single week. After a few months, the mail started rolling in.

We are so thankful that we now have hundreds of great listener suggestions to select

episode topics from.

And guess what?

All of your topic suggestions are awesome.

And some of them are topics I probably never would have thought of myself,

including the super fun topic we're getting curious about this week.

Mailbag!

Mailbag!

My name is Max.

I'm five years old and live in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

I listen to you every day in the car.

I love your podcast because it's educational and it's fun. My mom has learned a lot too.

I would love to learn more about superstitions, like why we cross our fingers for good luck.

Fingers crossed that you pick my topic. Thanks for all you do, Jacob and Olivia.

You're very welcome, Max. You could stop crossing your fingers now because we are totally getting curious about superstitions for you this week. But before we dive into some really interesting

superstitions, why don't you tell us the question of the week? The question of the week is, according to superstition, what happens if he step on a crack?

That's a fun question. Let's get this started by defining what a superstition is.

Many superstitions started a long time ago when people tried to explain why certain things happened. For example,

if a black cat crossed your path and then lots of bad things started to happen to you, you might

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