Beliefs and superstitions are deep rooted habits and fancies. The majority of the population of Punjab being rural, for centuries these people of the villages, bereft of education and contact with awakened communities, were under the spell of superstition and witchcraft. It is only recently that because of the opening of schools in villages and increase of literacy that the people have become somewhat rational.

Among the native art forms one of the most ignored is the folk toys, which like many other forms of village culture, has been considered a kind of vanity or at the most, synonymous with mere decoration, but this is not true. They are the combined products of artistic and social values.