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.
Technology likes some people and not others.
My brother and my GF are both in the “dislike” camp. I am firmly in the “tech just likes me” camp. Granted, my brother gets back at me for it because crazy stuff just happens around him to his immense benefit all his life.
I think I believe this too. I have birthed 4 kids. 2 tech wizards, one average, and one who the computer hates. They just don’t work for her like they do for me & the average kid. I think the difference between average and the tech girls is interest and effort, but the difference between average and the one who has bad luck with them does not seem to be explainable in the same way. And it’s not a creative/logical split either.