| From beneficial protectors to deliverers of evil, owls have been important in human superstitions across cultures throughout the world. |
| These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism. |
| On the other hand, that overactive imagination can also cause irrational fears, superstitions, and even paranoia. |
| At the heart of our greatest superstitions has always been a glimmer of truth. |
| These superstitions were nourished by ecclesiastical institutions, for which the poet had meager respect. |
| Other superstitions hold that by continuing to drink out of a glass after the toast is to dilute that toast. |
