Origin of Superstition — 1932

The series premiere, announcing itself as the first in the run: a docudrama on the belief that lighting three cigarettes on one match brings bad luck to the third.

Why a cook who spills salt tosses a pinch over the left shoulder -- the docudrama traces the old dread of spilled salt back through history.

The origin of the fear of walking under a ladder, dramatized as one of the everyday superstitions the series sets out to explain.