I do not believe in the supernatural, magic, ghosts or anything like that. However, I can be very superstitious about tempting fate and won’t make jokes or flippant remarks that could be interpretted as such.
For example, my partner made a dark joke about how she’d rather have cancer than such and such. I begged her not to say such things, not because the thought of her having cancer upset me (although it did), but because it feels as if saying stuff like that could make it happen.
Whenever I buy insurance for a device, nothing happens to it. Twice I’ve not had insurance (once it was not offered, second time I foolishly skipped it) and both those times, those devices fucking ate it.
Buying the insurance is a magic spell that protects my technology and nothing can convince me otherwise