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Sentence Examples At the same time he persuaded the Committee to circularize popular societies warning them not to fan superstition and fanaticism by persecution. As Europe basked in the Enlightenment, Popish superstition and its stablemate monarchical absolutism appeared to be receding into the past. Blood is spilled on the earth in old rites masked as simple superstition so as not to raise the ire of the Yahwist religious rulers of Samaria. We had been schooled to dismiss them as being objects of religion, ritual and superstition. It is largely secondary knowledge and includes much herbal lore as well as superstition. If anyone is prone to believe this superstition, Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable soon puts them right. Religion is pictured as old-fashioned, atavistic and dogmatic, defending superstition by burning scientific martyrs at the stake. Some skeptics also tend to lump all forms of religion in with irrationalism and superstition. It's about a very contemporary cultural superstition that love is actually bad for you. He rebuked his scientific colleagues for the modern superstition of secularism. Instead, debate is often overwhelmed by superstition, folk wisdom, prejudice and self-serving agendas. A handful of profiteers, cashing in on this occasion to barter superstition, are ready to tout articles relating to funerals. I would die to free our people from the chains of bigotry and superstition. The second superstition was that the skimmer would perform poorly and was vulnerable to misfortune when only one of the twins was aboard. The subject is surrounded in mystery, superstition, secrecy, and most interesting of all, real magic! Life on the set is pervaded by what the uninvolved might well view as superstition. There was some kind of superstition that the souls of the dead would come back to haunt the vilifiers. They just want to protect their market share by teaming up with fellow soulmates to keep the competition in the superstition stakes at bay. Some have been based on medical knowledge, but many have arisen from superstition and old wives' tales. You remember that overambitious roofs have collapsed, and that the superstition about walking under ladders is just common sense. Show More Sentences During the centuries of superstition and feudalism following Athens's downfall, free speech was barely considered as an idea. There's also a lot of folly, superstition and craziness, but I like to concentrate on the energy and resilience aspect of it. The cloak of organizational rationality is lifted to reveal sorcery, superstition, and the suspicion of witchcraft. Reason has not, and will not, ever completely displace man's belief in the unknown, be it in religion or superstition. At one point, he sits straight up because he thinks he hears two screech owls, which is a superstition that says bad luck is coming. Dr. Smith is an authority on parapsychology, the psychology of superstition and paranormal belief, and the psychology of deception. It is important to make a distinction between formal parapsychology and the psychic nonsense and superstition that often operates in its name. Practitioners of their religion were either sunk in superstition or hypocrites and impostors. Whether he got clouted in the face more often after crossing the path of a black cat or breaking a mirror is what puts superstition to the test. She is ill-treated as others believe in a superstition that Bayen's presence may bring bad luck to their children. The superstition of religion originated in man's inability to explain natural phenomena. In the darkest days of the Dark Ages, no superstition surpassed this one for silliness, fatuousness, or just plain ignorance. For Dedalus, as for James Joyce, Irish history was an ineluctable, disabling miasma of piety, nationalism and superstition. The villagers are wide-eyed with superstition, and crucifixes are plastered everywhere. By extending naturalism even to his own mind and soul, the materialist ends up sliding into his own morass of irrationalism and superstition. Although cult images are recognized as the fons et origo of superstition and error, the legislation is unequivocal about saving them. Therefore people should be freed from the bondage of religious superstition and empowered to overthrow their leaders. Clarifying what is science and what is superstition must become the top priority of India's freethinkers. Despite being an ode to the cursed Maple Leafs, this song succeeds by playing up the superstition inherent in hockey. Science and Reason were the new colossi which would sweep aside medieval superstition that kept us in darkness and ignorance. Show More Sentences However, he has revealed that he darns his own socks as part of a superstition that he must sport the same pair all season. It is, of course, a pre-scientific agricultural society, that turned to magic and superstition to assist them with their crops. The major portion of this book is dedicated to debunking beliefs in astrology, superstition and New Age beliefs. If his first encounter of the day was with a sweeper, superstition dictated that he stop to give her five rupees. In the early Middle Ages popular superstition began to associate witchcraft with demonic possession and the rejection of God. I countered this superstition with a serendipitous discovery from my own research. We wish her disenthralment from the deep superstition and idolatry in which she is sunk. The three quotations I have given above illustrate that the concept and idea of superstition and divergent beliefs are still in use. The philosophes criticized the ancien regime of religious superstition and dogmatism, hidebound social traditions, and repressive morality. Chinese mythology holds that disasters always strike in intercalary Augusts and Cheng was aware of the power of this superstition when he wrote his book. It is a common superstition that a black cat crossing your path is bad luck. He also claimed that Philosophy alone douses the flames of superstition. Religion and superstition are ever-present in Gothic thrillers. It had been a historical commonplace to view the long interval between Archimedes and Galileo as a period of unrelieved ignorance and superstition. Yet superstition can also be, if my theology is correct, the first step in the other direction on that same road. I don't believe in superstition and I hate people jabbering about ghouls. He purges them of all traces of polytheism, idol worship and superstition and all that is associated with these rituals, habits and traditions which are unworthy of man. Somehow throughout my childhood I have taken on this simple traditional superstition, accepted it and have woven it into the workings of my own life. Darwin was among the many scientists that have helped society evolve out of mysticism, superstition and faith. The origins and vicissitudes by which the field has passed have not always distinguished it from religion, alternative healing practices, superstition, and also charlatanism. Show More Sentences The continent appears to be a cauldron of corruption and superstition. It was also during this period that Theravada Buddhism gained strength in Ayutthaya, despite the deep roots of superstition and animism that still exist even today. The history of various families in Athy, their way of life, religion, superstition, Traveller cures and the Traveller language or cant are all documented. His spirit was critical and reform-minded, along the lines of the French philosophes, who defined themselves as the adversaries of superstition and charlatanism. According to superstition, hot cross buns and loaves baked on Good Friday never went mouldy, and were sometimes kept as charms from one year to the next. There is his superstition about watching every Red Sox game but never the sixth inning. For me the superstition that made the country folk of England nail owls to barn doors to repel evil forces is detestable and excruciatingly painful to think of. It was the era of the big set-piece battles between science and religion, between superstition and modernity, between medicine and fate, between madness and psychotherapy. The document further calls on government departments to make a finer distinction between religion and superstition so that people can worship religion without interference. The English heard of this superstition from the Romans and called their wishbones merrythoughts after the merry or happy wishes that most people desired. Shermer lumps superstition, cargo cults, UFO suicide cults, messianism and millennialism with historical religion without making any distinctions between them. It has been shown that some of these stories have entered Basque culture in recent centuries or as part of Roman superstition. Man has to feel his way most cautiously in the quaggy soil of ignorance, suspense, superstition and moral darkness. Anne reinstituted the traditional religious practice of touching for the king's evil that had been eschewed by William as papist superstition. His powerful voice gave me goosebumps as he belted out Shoes Upon the Table, an ominous song about fear and superstition. Alas, despite the pervasive and disturbing creepiness, it ultimately unravels in boogeyman superstition. And every second belief in the world is a woolly superstition. Groundhog Day is rooted in a German superstition that if an animal casts a shadow on Feb. If catlore is scarce in the above genres, it develops prominence in the realm of superstition and belief. The fear of Friday the thirteenth, or friggatriskaidekaphobia, takes the thirteen superstition to a whole new level. Show More Sentences Every inordination of religion that is not in defect, is properly called superstition. Because of the focus on reason over superstition, the Enlightenment cultivated the arts. The rites of the older faith, now regarded as superstition, are practised all over the country today. The familiar witch of folklore and popular superstition is a combination of numerous influences. In the north of England, the superstition lingers to an almost inconceivable extent. One particular incident that lent itself to the superstition was the Astor Place Riot. The design was a surprise, given Revie's superstition about the symbolism of birds. A superstition analogous to that of the ravens at the Tower of London states that if the apes ever leave, so will the British. A socialist from his undergraduate days, Childe was an atheist and critic of religion, viewing it as a false consciousness based in superstition. According to another superstition, the longer the peel, the longer the peeler's life would be. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can even forgive his superstition. This is, in its original form, apparently founded on real experiences of Odoric viewed through a haze of excitement and superstition. Alternative therapies are often based on religion, tradition, superstition, belief in supernatural energies, pseudoscience, errors in reasoning, propaganda, fraud, or lies. He had a writer's interest in the occult, notably mesmerism, but despised fraud and believed in the superiority of the scientific method over superstition. They say oxblood was used to help bind masonry together following ancient superstition that the blood of a strong animal would strengthen a building or structure. The phrase refers to abuses of the people by royalty and the clergy that Voltaire saw around him, and the superstition and intolerance that the clergy bred within the people. Originally written as a history of the Britons in an attempt to document a legitimate past, the Historia Brittonum contains stories of legend and superstition alike. The medicinal value of animal parts is based largely on superstition. Black civilization passes then through brutality and superstition, through the primogenial rites of deadly exorcism carried out by the Congo witch doctor. At other times they are joined with intolerance, bigotry, fanaticism, oppression, sexism, ethnocentrism, persecution, ignorance, and superstition. Show More Sentences I consider him a prodigious nuisance and an enormous superstition. The rest is a mishmash of superstition, pietism, a sugary sentimentalism, a streak of Puritanism, and a bleak authoritarianism borrowed from Victorian England. He was described as a crown prince who was endowed with the quality of an excellent monarch in a section surrounded by superstition, of his biography. In the best traditions of footballing superstition, the midfielder is keeping faith with the jockey shorts which have seen Rovers unbeaten in Europe. In Comus, Milton may make ironic use of the Caroline court masque by elevating notions of purity and virtue over the conventions of court revelry and superstition. This is the common story of superstition, from the totemism of savage tribes and the image-worship of semi-civilized peoples on to the heathenism of the Mass. It's much closer to mathematized superstition, organized superstition, which has a priesthood to replicate on the basis of how well we learn the rituals. True religion occupies the happy mean between miserable unfaith, on the one hand, and timorous superstition, wild fanaticism, and pietistical zeal on the other. Examples from Classical Literature Too blind a confidence in the inerrancy of logic is almost as dangerous as superstition. The power of Nationalities and Acts of Parliament is also a prevalent superstition. But no amount of world-wisdom can set a man above the inroads of superstition. There is an odd superstition connected with the crossbill, in Thuringia, which makes the wood-cutters very careful of the nests. He has been summering in Connecticut, and he avers that his talk about native superstition is founded on close observation. The Indian religion is not one of worship, but one of fear and superstition. A belief in the invulnerability of certain persons was a common superstition. We hear nothing in England but the old songs about popery, and superstition, and all that. There is too much popish superstition and worship of idols about him for my taste. It was through the aid of this superstition that Attila raised himself to dominion over their savage and tameless hordes. The more childish forms of ancient superstition, such as the use of ephods and teraphim, had fallen into desuetude. In order to justify superstition and the ancient cults, philosophy in Iamblichus becomes a theurgic, mysteriosophy, spiritualism. I realize perfectly that all this sounds like tommyrot, and that superstition may be a relic of barbarism and ignorance. These were the outward symbols of demonolatry and superstition invented by scheming priests as the fabric of their sacerdotalism. A turnoff to darkness has been deliberately taken, superstition has been embraced while knowledge has been destroyed. The ages that intervened were, as a whole, times of the densest superstition. All the grossness, superstition, and bad taste of the age were put into them. To abolish the superstition, the misrule, the vice, the misery of this world. With Druidical religious rites were blended Arkite and sabian superstition. We confess ourselves unable to follow this transfer of the superstition of sacrosanctity from a king to a chamber. Show More Sentences The removal of this ancient monument was the only injury which Constantius had offered to the superstition of the Romans. He was brave as a lion, but not untinctured with the superstition of the North. To call the destroyer of superstition a negationist is as senseless as to call a doctor a negationist. Witchcraft, superstition and cabalism were fostered even at the various European courts. He knew that superstition was scotched, but he also knew it was far from slain. I wonder if the 'dorian', if that is the name of it, is another superstition, like the peepul tree. The famous raskolniki schismatics had a similar superstition to the Mahometan one mentioned above. Gross phallicism is clearly the result of degeneration, and of a lapse into sensuality and superstition. The superstition of the divining rod prevailed only a century and a half ago. As for the superstition of the tales of ceilidh and buaile-mhart I have little to say. Such are the main beliefs with regard to this remarkable superstition of duppy on earth. In the mind of Nicias, enslaved by the grossest superstition, there was no room for doubt. There is a German superstition, which eight or ten years after I read, of the erl-king and his daughter. The mass of the population had little chance of ridding itself of eschatological superstition. It is curious how the superstition of externalism has affected many, even noble minds. Only the leaders of the New Balkans are much younger, less experienced, more prone to superstition, extremism and moodiness. But, in popular superstition, if not in Perrault's tales, the fes had many other attributes. The famous raskolniki Schismatics had a similar superstition about the beard. You know my favourite superstition, which I set too high a value upon to have it torn from me by chaffy reasonings. Another branch of this umbrageous if not fructuous tree of lunar superstition is the moon's influence on human fortune. Show More Sentences It may have been due to the strange superstition of the Egyptians of the Ptolemaic period. Herbalism, alchemy, geomancy, and other magic arts owe their origin to this fountain-head of primitive superstition. The women among the Alani gathered straight rods or wands, and used them in their superstition. It is superstition to say that the yarn spun on the charkha cannot be strong and even. He had recourse to every superstition of sortilege, clairvoyance, presentiment, and dreams. Ignorant devotion has so soon degenerated into superstition and iconolatry. The great Napoleon was a firm believer in various modes of superstition, particularly in cleromancy. They had never been able to imbue her with the superstition pertaining to the Godolphins. Elephanta has become in this way the symbol and propagator of a debasing superstition. The Nagas, another section of the same superstition, worshipped the cobra de capello as an emblem of the destroying power. I upbraided myself for my absurd superstition, which had caused me to fall into the trap. It was quite evident that Mrs. Tremain had all the superstition of Mexico. The coloured population of Angola are sunk in the grossest superstition. The spy was devout to the point of bigoted, credulous superstition. Blind faith, or belief, is ever the handmaid of superstition. The shocking custom of decapitation owes its origin to superstition. Besides, it was borrowed from the syllabus of a degraded superstition. This superstition is known in St. Lucia by the name of Kembois. The scabious, or Devils bit, was regarded with great superstition. It would be unfair to impute a monopoly of superstition to the seafarer. Show More Sentences They are fearless and without religion, save superstition, and they talk only their own varieties of the Romany tongue. The cathedral, a fount of superstition, must find no place in his life. For we are simple-minded creatures, and prone to superstition. Charles himself was divided between superstition and Hobbism. Meanwhile, the Island was in a smoulder of suspicion and superstition. A couple of tales shall suffice as illustrative of this superstition. Familiarity may temper, but inborn human superstition is indestructible. The period of juvenility was shamefully sacrificed to superstition. Tales of superstition and all mystery stories of the unknown. Its use became regarded as a sign of uncivility, ignorance, truculence, and superstition. Cruelty and superstition were the ruling passions of the soul of maximin. Rob them of their superstition, and they perish amid all uncleanliness. I wanted vampires and the bad old days and aristocracy hand-in-hand with superstition. An excellent maxim for fomenting credulity and nourishing superstition. Nor was this, at that time, a blind and unreasoning superstition. These were of a character to force into germination whatever seeds of hereditary superstition lay latent in my bosom. The frightful superstition of werewolves is a good instance. Callum, flint to other considerations, was penetrable to superstition. Each legend, each superstition which we receive, will help in the understanding and possible elucidation of the others. The truth was, that a superstition of his had failed, here, which he and all his comrades had always looked upon as infallible. Show More Sentences With Carthoris at my side I fought for the red men of Barsoom and for their total emancipation from the throttling bondage of a hideous superstition. It seemed to me that I could not fail to impress upon the intelligent red men of Barsoom the wicked deception that a cruel and senseless superstition had foisted upon them. It is for want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he scoffs openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures. I began bravely by analyzing my pet superstition about the place. When he did not show himself, he betrayed his presence or his passing by accident, comic or serious, for which the general superstition held him responsible. The entire surface of this metallic enclosure was rudely daubed in all the hideous and repulsive devices to which the charnel superstition of the monks has given rise. Find more words! 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