• Anthony Cynthia Anna Edward

“Superstition is a religious phobia, which destroys the reality”. The superstitious belief has started with the people living from the ancient times. Superstition is an ominous importance of a specific thing for people who believe in it. Girish Karnard in his plays transports mythological ideas to project and to connect them to the issues of contemporary society. Hayavadhana is a play by Girish Karnard that brings out the superstitious and mythological ideas. The hybridity in the play is the description of the horse head and human bodied beast named ‘hayavadhana’. The Horse head and human bodied Hayavadhana turns into a complete horse physically by Hindu goddess kali which shows the myth of Indian culture. People, who follow superstitious beliefs, suffer from phobia. Superstitious belief shows the fear of an individual that something bad is going to happen to them because of the taking place of a credulous incident. The character ‘Padmini’ in the play ‘Hayavadhana’ is probably superstitious because when her husband is killed she has a superstitious fear that someone or something would harm her or some God from her faith would punish her for being alive even after the death of her husband. Therefore, her superstition turns into phobia and the fear kills her.

Superstition, mythology, ominous, hybridity, phobia.

"The Myth and superstition perceived in Girish Karnard’s Hayavadhana", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no.62-66, February-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAA06016.pdf

"The Myth and superstition perceived in Girish Karnard’s Hayavadhana", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 2, page no. pp62-66, February-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRAA06016.pdf