Soft-minded individuals are prone to embrace all kinds of superstitions. Their minds are constantly invaded by irrational fears, which range from fear of Friday the thirteenth to fear of a black cat crossing one’s path. As the elevator made its upward climb in one of the large hotels of New York City, I noticed for the first time that there was no thirteenth floor - floor fourteen followed floor twelve. On inquiring from the elevator operator the reason for this omission, he said, ‘This practice is followed by most large hotels because of the fear of numerous people to stay on a thirteenth floor.’ Then he added, ‘The real foolishness of the fear is to be found in the fact that the fourteenth floor is actually the thirteenth.’ Such fears leave the soft mind haggard by day and haunted by night.