How To Use Superstition In A Sentence

A significant look was exchanged between the devotees, but no words; the friar departed, and the nun, still silent, conducted her through many solitary passages, where not even a distant foot-fall echoed, and whose walls were roughly painted with subjects indicatory of the severe superstitions of the place, tending to inspire melancholy awe. The Italian
Star Trek didn't just offer the illimitable joys of William Shatner tumbling out of his chair every time the camera shook, or yet another sermon from the pen of Gene Roddenberry about how organized religion is a childish superstition.
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition. Christopher Hitchens
The skills jockeys employ to get horses to win races are largely visible and obvious - despite many attempts at mystification by a racing culture addicted to magic and superstition.
You'd say what seems to be on the rise is not art or science, but religion and the medievalism of superstition and the tyranny of who owns whose soul and the soul of what nation.

I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. First Open Thread-- What's on your mind? Log in and add your comments
Dr. Ross says his findings move "human ocular extramission," which he also refers to as an "eyebeam," from the realm of superstition to science. Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
Somebody appears to have gone to an immense amount of trouble to assemble a ragbag of every kind of mumbo-jumbo and superstition; a great waste of time, in my opinion.
While liberation from superstition and autocratic oppression is the great legacy of the Enlightenment, to perpetuate the repression of all spiritual expression in the name of reason is to continue to deny our innate being.
We have become conditioned to expect certain things in a genre film, and anyone who comes at this one expecting big scares could easily miss its philosophical questioning of superstition and religion, and find himself or herself bored.
Sustained by the truth received from her divine Founder, the Church has ever sought to fulfill holily the mission entrusted to her by God; unconquered by the difficulties on all sides surrounding her, she has never ceased to assert her liberty of teaching, and in this way the wretched superstition of paganism being dispelled, the wide world was renewed unto Christian wisdom. Libertas Praestantissimum
He added that he had been a victim of ignorance and superstition himself as he was growing up in Hong Kong. Times, Sunday Times
In the mud of their complacently perpetuated barnyard pond, they assert that no bright-browed, bright-apparelled shining figures can be outside of fairy books, old histories, and ancient superstitions. THE KANAKA SURF
He shows how superstitions about vampires - which are found in cultures as remote from Transylvania as China - originate not in the epic misdeeds of Vlad the Impaler, but in the behaviour of the human corpse after death.
The origins and vicissitudes by which the field has passed have not always distinguished it from religion, alternative healing practices, superstition, and also charlatanism.
The upholders of the Stratford-Shakespeare superstition call _us_ the hardest names they can think of, and they keep doing it all the time; very well, if they like to descend to that level, let them do it, but I will not so undignify myself as to follow them. Is Shakespeare Dead? from my autobiography
Even during the Reformation it was biblical scenes likely to promote superstition and idolatry that came down.
In the Enquiry he called Catholics ‘devotees of superstition’ and Catholic liturgy ‘mummeries.’
Plus, not everyone believes in hocus pocus lifestyles of the religious superstition and the fact that the Bible is purely FICTION and was written long after those apostles died and that the Gnostics written by women were omitted from the Bible not to mention how much the Bible has been altered and words changed in that work of fiction all these years. Think Progress » O’Reilly Responds: “What I Said Isnâ€™t Controversial. What I Said Needed to Be Said.”
It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstition. Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
He liked the stately monuments much more than he liked Gibbon or Ruskin; he loved their dignity; their unity; their scale; their lines; their lights and shadows; their decorative sculpture; but he was even less conscious than they of the force that created it all, the Virgin, the Woman, by whose genius the stately monuments of superstition were built, through which she was expressed. The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900)
Manchester Science Festival, ManchesterThis might be the season of superstition and spooks, but since science is more unbelievable, wondrous and scary than fiction, it's apt timing for Manchester's cornucopia of explorative events (more than 200 of them). This week's new events
That way they might find silly forms of superstition and mysticism less enticing. Times, Sunday Times
Towards the end of the film, when an altercation with the earnest young locksmith erupts abruptly into violence, he retreats into religious superstition as a means of rationalising a seemingly inexplicable plot development.
A handful of profiteers, cashing in on this occasion to barter superstition, are ready to tout articles relating to funerals.
The bernicle, or brent goose, is interesting from the curious superstition which formerly prevailed respecting it, as it was supposed to have sprung from the shell called the barnacle or lepas, which adheres to the bottoms of ships, and which has a fringe of cirri projecting from between its valves bearing some faint resemblance to the feathers of a bird. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. Francis Bacon
It is well that he acknowledgeth both them and us to have reason of miscontentment at holidays, from their corruptions and superstitions. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
Indians, who remained outside the tribunal's jurisdiction, were subject to a parallel institution, the Juzgado General de Indios, founded in 1592, or the Provisorato de naturales, the tribunal for the archbishopric of Mexico that was charged with Indian affairs and oversaw matters of superstition, idolatry, witchcraft, and bigamy. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
The philosophes criticized the ancien regime of religious superstition and dogmatism, hidebound social traditions, and repressive morality.
It's about a very contemporary cultural superstition that love is actually bad for you.
The reliance on luck, with all the hunches and superstitions it involves, is portrayed here as a kind of world view, an attitude towards life that turns out to be founded on despair.
These superstitions were nourished by ecclesiastical institutions, for which the poet had meager respect.
As Europe basked in the Enlightenment, Popish superstition and its stablemate monarchical absolutism appeared to be receding into the past.
Each has their own rituals and superstitions. Times, Sunday Times
This is because epilepsy is all the time associated with superstitions and spiritism.
That way they might find silly forms of superstition and mysticism less enticing. Times, Sunday Times
At the heart of our greatest superstitions has always been a glimmer of truth.
His spirit was critical and reform-minded, along the lines of the French philosophes, who defined themselves as the adversaries of superstition and charlatanism.
My object, indeed, in the introduction of the Danish Vala especially, has been perhaps as much addressed to the reason as to the fancy, in showing what large, if dim, remains of the ancient "heathenesse" still kept their ground on the Saxon soil, contending with and contrasting the monkish superstitions, by which they were ultimately replaced. Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Volume 01
Only superstition is now so well advanced, that men of the first blood, are as firm as butchers by occupation; and votary resolution, is made equipollent to custom, even in matter of blood. The Essays
Superstition more than prayer and piety characterized popular religiosity there.
It is the superstition of a godless people. Christianity Today
The topic of birth is riddled with superstition.
Of course superstition is at the bottom of this barbarity; the same which a generation ago made the silly accoucheur refuse to give ether because of the divine (?) saying “In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
The Celtics have many superstitions and traditions surrounding weddings and brides in particular.
There is a fine line between superstition and religion.
Superstition more than prayer and piety characterized popular religiosity there.
It struck me as an odd thing, that even then, considering how prone to superstition persons in his rank of life usually are, he did not seem to suspect any thing supernatural in the occurrence; and, on the contrary, was thoroughly persuaded that his visitant was a living person, who had got into the house by some hidden entrance. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 2
A bearded guy, clad in a white shirt and a white dhoti, preferred to stand and watch the game almost throughout the day - perhaps it was some superstition.
I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Epistle Dedicatory
Ignorance and superstition prevent them from benefiting from modern medicine.
There is, even yet, a hangover of fear and superstition where the disables or mentally deficient are concerned.
Superstitions abound with regard to salt.
Organized religion is a product of a mix of superstition, delusion, divination and humanity to calm and control the human mind. Dr T.P.Chia
Eric the Red, "the only doubtful part of which is the" uniped "episode, a touch of mediaeval superstition so palpable as not to be deceptive. The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503
To enlighten is to bring light where there had previously been darkness, to replace opinion, i.e., superstition, by scientific knowledge of nature, beginning from phenomena available to all men and ending in rational demonstration possible for all men. THE CLOSING OF THE AMERICAN MIND
The present author reserves the term folklore for application to those unappropriated scraps of popular song, story, myth, and superstition that have drifted down the stream of antiquity and that reach us in the scrap-bag of popular memory, often bearing in their battered forms the evidence of long use. Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula
Tot mundi superstitiones quot coelo stellae, one saith, there be as many superstitions in the world, as there be stars in heaven, or devils themselves that are the first founders of them: with such ridiculous, absurd symptoms and signs, so many several rites, ceremonies, torments and vexations accompanying, as may well express and beseem the devil to be the author and maintainer of them. Anatomy of Melancholy
Rather than being an ordinary ornithology textbook, this tome will delve into, among other things, folklore, superstition, social history, poetry, art, gastronomy, and linguistics.
Reason has not, and will not, ever completely displace man's belief in the unknown, be it in religion or superstition.
He decided to show some signs of devotion to what he had been accustomed to call the grossest of superstitions; to reveal symptoms of latent Roman proclivities. South Wind
Meanwhile, on the subject of superstition, I'm working on a novella which involves a lady from Sheffield having visions of angels, so I've been trawling about on the net for current angelology and my goodness, it's a rum go.
During a typhoon in the Sea of Japan, the ship is torn of her canvas and the masts come aglow with the corposants, St Elmo's Fire, a source of deep superstition to sailors, who believed them to be a portentious omen, ‘God's burning finger… laid upon the ship’.
Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry. Man and Superman
The moonwort was formerly associated with many superstitions and was reputed to open all locks at a mere touch, and to unshoe all horses that trod upon it. The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
He told himself that it was a silly piece of superstition; but, all the same, a strange feeling troubled him; and it seemed as if the fall of these old mementoes of the gallant officer, his dead father, was a kind of portent of trouble to come -- trouble and disaster that would be brought about by his cousin. The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne
As long as we remain overcivilized, anarchy, violence, murder and superstition will continue their sinister recovery — until one day you may think you hear your own mother’s voice [pleading for your life] on the network news. The Volokh Conspiracy » 2004 » September
Lastly, this commandment conveys the obligation to dissent from, and reject, every superstition and every error, requiring us to preserve pure and intemerate the adoration due to the Supreme Being, who, in this sense, is represented in this text as jealously watching over human actions, and a not indifferent spectator of good or evil; therefore a sure punisher of the guilty, and an eternal remunerator of him who faithfully adheres to His law. A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth
Some skeptics also tend to lump all forms of religion in with irrationalism and superstition.
That Paulson should have gone down on one knee to Speaker Nancy Pelosi, as if prayer and beseechment might get the job done, strikes me as further evidence that sheer superstition and incantation have played their part in all this. America the Banana Republic
The English have given an inexplicable charm to these superstitions, by the manner in which they have associated them with whatever is most homefelt and delightful in nature. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists
Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary -- This precept is frequently repeated along with the prohibition of idolatrous practices, and here it stands closely connected with the superstitions forbidden in the previous verses. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Parents, correspondingly, have no God-given licence to enculturate their children in whatever ways they personally choose: no right to limit the horizons of their children's knowledge, to bring them up in an atmosphere of dogma and superstition, or to insist they follow the straight and narrow paths of their own faith. The God Delusion
He fought with troops that had no commissary; battled with superstition; and saw his name belittled by those he sought to serve. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
It is astonishing that these superstitions, in the partial guise of sophistical successor versions, retain any credibility.
A defector from the military regime in the late 1980s, he has seen the ruination of his country by the superstition-ridden clique of generals who have led the country since the 1960s.
The traditional method of combating intuitionalism from the time of John Locke to that of Herbert Spencer has been to present the reader with a list of cruel and abominable savage customs, ridiculous superstitions, acts of religious fanaticism and intolerance, which have all alike seemed self-evidently good and right to the peoples or individuals who have practised them. Human Traits and their Social Significance
The Symphony No 9, or the Choral, had such an enormous impact that a superstition sprung up among subsequent composers that it tempted fate to venture beyond nine symphonies, the number at which Beethoven laid down his pen.
One of the best places for grand sycamores is the north fork of Horrell Creek, in the Superstition Mountains.
Society needs to advance beyond prejudice and superstition.
These lithe, slim beasts bear the weight of an astonishing amount of history, belief and superstition. Times, Sunday Times
Such coincidences will prey on all connections today, along with their ritual superstitions of lucky shirts and suits. Times, Sunday Times
Organized religion is a product of a mix of superstition, delusion, divination and humanity to calm and control the human mind. Dr T.P.Chia
This heresy was a compound of Priscillianism, the dualism of Manes, Oriental and Gnostic fancies, Gothic Arianism, and indigenous superstition, all fused together in what was known as Albigensianism, and which was hardly Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
To the medical mind these ecstasies signify nothing but suggested and imitated hypnoid states, on an intellectual basis of superstition, and a corporeal one of degeneration and hysteria. The Varieties of Religious Experience
Life on the set is pervaded by what the uninvolved might well view as superstition.
All parties were delighted to let the rival yelpers fight it out on so distant a field as Syria; and in that country of heat and dryness, of poverty, anarchy, cruelty, and superstition, there was a skrimmage that kept all Christendom on the tenter-hooks for half-a-year; and this we believe to be the policy of the Syrian campaign. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.
Superstition is the poetry of life. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
In vignettes centering on a fiery local waitress, a seventh-generation fisherman, the doyenne of a fading lesbian power culture, an unrepentant jinx, and other characters for whom the term colorful does scant justice, he introduces a community bound by tradition, superstition, recalcitrance, and a profound, more visceral than affectionate love for the sea. Undefined
The Founders meant truths obvious not to everyone everywhere but to minds unclouded by superstition and other ignorance - minds like theirs.
If I manage to do the poppers up in one go I know I'm going to have a good show (that's a little superstition I have)
Grimm explains the principle of this test by tracing it to an old heathen superstition that the holy element, the pure stream, would receive no misdoer within it. The Customs of Old England
He deployed the erudition that made his work a source-book of historical and religious criticism in a humane and enquiring spirit, impatient of credulity, superstition, and intolerance.
Practicing methodological naturalism and then believing in superstition is called compartmentalization, not intellectual consistency. Partial Knowlege, Totally Dangerous
For several centuries there was prevalent over the whole of civilised Europe a most extraordinary superstition concerning the small Arctic bird resembling, but not so large as, the common wild goose, known as the barnacle or bernicle goose. Bygone Beliefs
That corpses MIGHT begin to "thraw," if carelessly watched, was a prevalent superstition. A Collection of Ballads
He insists that religious belief as a whole is not superstition, and that it is true so far as it is an expression of a ˜nisus to totality™ or a ˜move to wholeness.™ My Recycled Soul
By extending naturalism even to his own mind and soul, the materialist ends up sliding into his own morass of irrationalism and superstition.
With the coming of summer and the arrival of our winged visitors, such as the cuckoo and the swallow, our thoughts often wander to the superstitions associated with birds of almost every kind.
They view the image of the Virgin decorated with bunting and artificial flowers, hanging in homes, stores, churches and even modern factories at the end of each production line as a quaint bit of foreign custom or superstition. La Virgen de Guadalupe - Mother of all Mexico
Superstitions is the religion of feeble minds.
Evidence is, I claim, with reference to variations in UK and US culture, that religion is a bad thing in its own right, a product of general human socio-political psychology which inhibits doubt, thereby creating the “bad thinking” and the “superstition”. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
Superstition and Revelation is as echoic -- as allusive, if you will -- as any text in Hemans. Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_
For Dedalus, as for James Joyce, Irish history was an ineluctable, disabling miasma of piety, nationalism and superstition.
For Bierce , Christianity was an antiquated superstition with no place in the modern world.
It deals with her superstitions and beliefs in the supernatural - she has a friend who predicted his own murder, and after he was killed the names of the two killers came to her out of nowhere.
Thus they continued in such error, blindness, decrees, sophisms, superstitions; idle ceremonies and traditions were the sum of their new-coined holiness and religion, and by these knaveries and stratagems they were able to involve multitudes, to deceive the most sanctified souls, and, if it were possible, the very elect. Anatomy of Melancholy
Many old customs and superstitions still linger around the festival of the new year, especially in provincial towns and country districts. Times, Sunday Times
The villagers are wide-eyed with superstition, and crucifixes are plastered everywhere.
Chut, chut," cried Aimée, the more irritably that her maternal feelings had to overcome her natural inclination to superstition. A Loose End and Other Stories
Not only are the distinctions we draw between male nature and female nature largely arbitrary and often pure superstition: they are completely beside the point. Between Worlds: A Reader, Rhetoric and Handbook
According to superstition, if you walk under a ladder it brings you bad luck.
Many old customs and superstitions still linger around the festival of the new year, especially in provincial towns and country districts. Times, Sunday Times
Besides a foolish and feeble pride, an impertinent prating, froward and insociable humours, superstition, and a ridiculous desire of riches when we have lost the use of them, I find there more envy, injustice, and malice. The Essays of Montaigne — Volume 14
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
He's coming from the western part of medieval Europe, from the larger cities and armies, and at first he can't help but make fun out of the small villages and local superstitions.
The more we understand about the nature of the world and humankind, the less vulnerable we are to irrational fears and disabling superstitions. MAKING HAPPY PEOPLE
Page 36 men "with a direct view to gaining a livelihood;" Barrett Wendell wrote in the North American Review in 1904 on "Our National Superstition" in which he pointed to the "flabbiness" of college students. Undergraduate Work and the University of North Carolina
I would die to free our people from the chains of bigotry and superstition.
According to superstition, if you walk under a ladder it brings you bad luck.
He rebuked his scientific colleagues for the modern superstition of secularism.
So what they would argue is that all Religions are primitive superstitions that came about to explain the world in pre-scientific times believed based on no evidence but tradition and emotionalism, that is irrational, and teaches us to think in irrational terms. Richard Dawkins is a religious fanatic
Superstitions is the religion of feeble minds.
The key terms that Hitchens uses to describe that worldview are familiar in the rhetoric of atheism: superstition, false consolation, "mind-forged manacles of servility," "stultifying pseudo-science," and of course, the blandishments of organized religion. Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
Is this fear mere superstition? Times, Sunday Times
But in some parts of the world, such as central Africa, mutations that result in albinism (or a significant depigmentation) of a baby can provoke fear and superstition and sometimes even infanticide.
Cicerone, who has less classic knowledge, and more superstition than a colleger, upon showing The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
Lastly, this commandment conveys the obligation to dissent from, and reject, every superstition and every error, requiring us to preserve pure and intemerate the adoration due to the Supreme Being, who, in this sense, is represented in this text as jealously watching over human actions, and a not indifferent spectator of good or evil; therefore a sure punisher of the guilty, and an eternal remunerator of him who faithfully adheres to His law. A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth
To place something else at the center may arouse fears that superstition and non-scientific ideas will attack an undefended citadel of science.
As a tournament like this progresses you develop more and more superstitions.
He boldly advanced the truth that believers should live by the Word of God and jettison popish superstitions.
It must be the reading of tragedies that fills them with this superstition for the buskin and the pall, and not a sympathy with existing nature and the spirit of the age. Uncollected Prose
Philosophic reflections on " advocate the science " and " with superstitions blind faith
Belief is not a superstition or a religious faith. It is what you think and believe with conviction but has room for doubt. Dr T.P.Chia
benighted ages of barbarism and superstition
We can't deny that superstition, poverty, obscuration , graness all exist in middle ages, but can we absolutely deny the culture heritages during that time?
Superstition ripens into alarm when some people from town come into the sickroom talking about ‘witches flying over the barn and fearing for their daughter who has suddenly been struck dumb.’
For several centuries there was prevalent over the whole of civilised Europe a most extraordinary superstition concerning the small Arctic bird resembling, but not so large as, the common wild goose, known as the barnacle or bernicle goose. Bygone Beliefs
A capitulary of 805 provided for medical education, and another condemned medical superstitions. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
Belief is not a superstition or a religious faith. It is what you think and believe with conviction but has room for doubt. Dr T.P.Chia
Of course, the spirit of these themes remains very much present in BUNSHINSABA, named for a particular mercenary haint summoned by a troubled schoolgirl Lee Se-eun who is bullied mercilessly after moving from Seoul to the superstition-hagged Korean provinces. Learn Witch Learn
Other ridiculous superstitions can contribute to the demise of a tennis player - comets, ball boys, hotel rooms, when to sit on the can and which sexual partners are acceptable.
Religion is pictured as old-fashioned, atavistic and dogmatic, defending superstition by burning scientific martyrs at the stake.
And first to begin of politicians, it hath ever been a principal axiom with them to maintain religion or superstition, which they determine of, alter and vary upon all occasions, as to them seems best, they make religion mere policy, a cloak, a human invention, nihil aeque valet ad regendos vulgi animos ac superstitio, as [6386] Tacitus and [6387] Tully hold. Anatomy of Melancholy
However, he has revealed that he darns his own socks as part of a superstition that he must sport the same pair all season.
The media has seized upon the long-anticipated death of the 84-year-old pontiff to subject the American public to a saturation bombardment of religious obscurantism and superstition.
Now, with their new religious ideas, the Tagáls apply the term anito to any superstition, false worship, idol, etc. History of the Philippine Islands
At the same time he persuaded the Committee to circularize popular societies warning them not to fan superstition and fanaticism by persecution.
Other superstitions hold that by continuing to drink out of a glass after the toast is to dilute that toast.
And still it sat there upon its inky throne surrounded by inky superstition, leering over him with an evil smirk and waiting - waiting with all the patience of an imp or demon.
Among them, too, I found a great deal of superstition mixed with the Christian truths; but the difference was that the superstitions of the believers of our circle were quite unnecessary to them and were not in conformity with their lives, being merely a kind of epicurean diversion; but the superstitions of the believers among the labouring masses conformed so with their lives that it was impossible to imagine them to oneself without those superstitions, which were a necessary condition of their life. the whole life of believers in our circle was a contradiction of their faith, but the whole life of the working-folk believers was a confirmation of the meaning of life which their faith gave them. A Confession
In practice it means a set of extremely rotten values: greed, self-absorption, atomization, suspiciousness, superstition, lying (especially to ones' self), responsibility-shirking, resentment ('coveting'), and ultimately, nihilism ('rapture'). Your Right Hand Thief
Not, James explains, in the way advocated by the "medical materialists" – those for whom mysticism signifies nothing but "suggested and imitated hypnoid states, on an intellectual basis of superstition, and a corporeal one of degeneration and hysteria". William James, part 6: Mystical states
It is these forces among others which will speed the day when humanity emancipates itself from the mind-forged manacles of servility and superstition. Deepak Chopra: The Atheist's Mistake
Ignorance and superstition prevent them from benefiting from modern medicine.
But these slightly prejudiced persons generally have idolatries and superstitions of their own, particularly idolatries and superstitions in connection with celebrated people.
Owls who are untrammelled by centuries of myth and superstition. THE ANCIENT AND SOLITARY REIGN
It includes reliance on superstitions, as well as religious tenets such as belief in the survival of the soul after death. Times, Sunday Times
These superstitions survive in the backwaters of America
The Norsemen were the more prone to these superstitions, because itwas a favourite fancy of theirs that, in many instances, the change fromlife to death altered the temper of the human spirit from benignant tomalevolent; or perhaps, that when the soul left the body, its departurewas occasionally supplied by a wicked demon, who took the opportunity toenter and occupy its late habitation. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
When we see so many revolt from the profession of the reformed religion, to the corruptions and superstitions of Rome; and others, from a religious and sober life, to plunge themselves into all kind of lewdness and debauchery, and, it is to be feared, into atheism and infidelity; can we doubt any longer whether it be possible for The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 06.
I don't believe in superstition and I hate people jabbering about ghouls.
In such a view, the religious framework of Christianity was aligned with scientific naturalism, and non-Christian supernaturalism was aligned with superstition.
Quibus quaestui sunt capti superstitione animi, as [6406] Livy saith. Anatomy of Melancholy
Rome -- the 'colluvies gentium' -- the sink of the nations, with its conceit, its pomposity, its beggary, its profligacy, its superstition, its pretence of preserving the Roman law and rights, while practically it cared for no law nor right at all. Roman and the Teuton
He writes, ‘It is an unutterable sadness which punctuates the reality that I am called upon to portray, and yet the dominant superstition of my profession demands that I raise a laugh.’
He realizes, as James puts it, that something greater than politics explains the world: "The figures on the chessboard were still the passions and jealousies and superstitions and stupidities of man, and thus positioned with regard to each other, at any given moment, could be of interest only to the grim invisible fates who played the game—who sat, through the ages, bow-backed over the table. To the Barricades! Revolutionaries in Novels
Of course, many folk customs and superstitions surrounded these events, as women relied on a female community of relatives, midwives, and nurses to see them through this time of physical and spiritual danger.
The subject is surrounded in mystery, superstition, secrecy, and most interesting of all, real magic!
But as the faith, which is not founded on revelation, must remain destitute of any firm assurance, the disciple of Plato imprudently relapsed into the habits of vulgar superstition; and the popular and philosophic notion of the Deity seems to have been confounded in the practice, the writings, and even in the mind of Julian. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
The errors and superstitions of other days are vanishing before the influence of cause and effect; and mankind generally can never again be led away by the bewilderments of superstition or of priestcraft.
And the tendencies of deism in France grew more violently destructive, not only because religious superstition was grosser, but because that superstition was incorporated in a strong and inexpansible social structure. Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
Most Catholic sacramentals, such as relics, agnus deis and medals, were proscribed as being "papist superstitions. Death of Elizabeth I
The topic of birth is riddled with superstition.
Laughing at the housekeeper's superstitions, the priest tells the barber to hand him a book at a time; because, they might find some that do not deserve burning.
The second cognitive error is a belief in superstition. Times, Sunday Times
During the 800 years of the Dark Ages, Europe sunk back into primitivism, until the Renaissance broke the grip of superstition and the march of modern civilisation continued, after the long break.
As for your views about religion as a control mechanism, on the one hand, you abstract from every real religion Taoism is characterized by many varied superstitions, such as the search for physical immortality, not the empty throne you impute to me, for instance. Bukiet on Brooklyn Books
The itinerant sweetmeat vendor shown in the woodcut is a specimen of the class of Japanese most prone to superstition. Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs
Optimism seems to rule: Four of the five most widely held superstitions are the ones that bring on the good.
Practitioners of their religion were either sunk in superstition or hypocrites and impostors.
Sikhism preaches a message of devotion and remembrance of God at all times, truthful living, equality of mankind, social justice and denounces superstitions and blind rituals.
According to superstition, if you walk under a ladder it brings you bad luck.
Dr. Smith is an authority on parapsychology, the psychology of superstition and paranormal belief, and the psychology of deception.
The ancient Brahmins acknowledged one only Supreme Being; the Chinese associated no inferior being with the Divinity, nor had any idol until the times when the populace were led astray by the worship of Fo, and the superstitions of the bonzes. A Philosophical Dictionary
Take away the saints and our beliefs about the dignity and destiny of human beings and the only thing left is pre-Christian superstition regarding the dead," author Page McKean Zyromski wrote in an article for Catholic Update magazine. On Halloween Sunday, Some Opt For All Saints' Parties
V.A., which the Emperor remarked made the word "Neva" -- a coincidence on which he appears to have dwelt with his share of the superstition of the Buonapartes. Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
Belief is not a superstition or a religious faith. It is what you think and believe with conviction but has room for doubt. Dr T.P.Chia
The problem comes when superstitions belong to people in power - when superstitions become the operating system for major companies and other important institutions.
Think not we long remained blind to the idiotical folly of our founders, who forswore every delight of life for the pleasure of dying martyrs by hunger, by thirst, and by pestilence, and by the swords of savages, while they vainly strove to defend a barren desert, valuable only in the eyes of superstition. Ivanhoe
It is the superstition of a godless people. Christianity Today
Although "mumpsimus" is the very motto for the Russian schismatics, and although ignorance and superstition were the root of the matter, they combined with a dread of arbitrary change by an arbitrary power, and supplied a basis for resistance to Erastianism and the fusion of Church and State. Lectures on Modern history
They just want to protect their market share by teaming up with fellow soulmates to keep the competition in the superstition stakes at bay.
The Norsemen were the more prone to these superstitions, because it was Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
It is preposterous to expect that the same superstition regarding skin ascendency, which is now so markedly played out in our Colonies in temporal matters, could have any weight whatsoever in matters so momentous as morals and religion. West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
It had been a historical commonplace to view the long interval between Archimedes and Galileo as a period of unrelieved ignorance and superstition.
Finally, a commonly - held superstition is that of touching wood for luck.
Although superstitions involve beliefs and practices, they are usually transmitted as sayings.

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