Superstitions in Pashto Tappa

Abstract

Similar to the outcome the life of a person living in a society, the culture also depends on the material and non-material aspects of lives. A nation's cultural heritage, also called folklore, can be divided into material and non-material folklore. Material folklore includes all the material objects and tools that are part of our culture, and non-material folklore includes all ideas, concepts, thoughts and other such things. Folklore literature has its existence in almost every language of the world before documentary literature and in the presence of documentary literature and has a great status. Tawahumat are called "superstition" in English, but in Arabic they are also called "Tashaum" or "Watirah". In Arabic, these are described as ‘a psychological quality of pessimism in which the fundamental assumption is that everything is wrong or going wrong’. Tapa is one of the genres of early literature that is popular among all Pashtuns. The Pashto language, which is the manifestation of the psychology of Pashtun culture and people, has also incorporated the Tawahumat into itself has established a meaning in the Pashto context. This article describe the common and popular Tawahumat in Pashto literature and its reflection in Tapa. It recommends that a detailed work should be done in this field and all the primary literature including tapa should be analyzed for a better understanding of psychology of Pashtuns.