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Step on a crack, break your mother’s back” sounds like a harmless playground rhyme... but it isn’t.
In this episode, we dig into the unsettling folklore, psychology, and buried fears beneath one of childhood’s most persistent superstitions, and why a simple line in the sidewalk still makes us hesitate.
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