In many mathematical and physical contexts spinors are treated as Grassmann
odd valued fields. We show that it is possible to extend the classification of
reality conditions on such spinors by a new type of Majorana condition. In
order to define this graded Majorana condition we make use of
pseudo-conjugation, a rather unfamiliar extension of complex conjugation to
supernumbers. Like the symplectic Majorana condition, the graded Majorana
condition may be imposed, for example, in spacetimes in which the standard
Majorana condition is inconsistent. However, in contrast to the symplectic
condition, which requires duplicating the number of spinor fields, the graded
condition can be imposed on a single Dirac spinor. We illustrate how graded
Majorana spinors can be applied to supersymmetry by constructing a globally
supersymmetric field theory in three-dimensional Euclidean space, an example of
a spacetime where standard Majorana spinors do not exist.Comment: 16 pages, version to appear in J. Phys. A; AFK previously published
under the name A. F. Schunc