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I avoid stepping directly on drain covers, grates, or pavement cracks out of mild superstition or discomfort

The avoidance of specific surfaces blends genuine physical caution — grates can be slippery or unstable — with magical thinking inherited from childhood rhymes about cracks. Even people who intellectually reject superstition often find the behaviour persists at a semi-automatic level.

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The childhood rhyme 'step on a crack, break your mother's back' appeared in American folklore in the 19th century and has been identified in cultures across the world — suggesting the underlying superstition is cross-cultural.

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