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Example sentences for: superstition

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Village festivals and processions bear witness to the heavy rural attachment to religion and even pagan superstition harking back to ancient times.
The often important factor of taboo seems not to operate here too conspicuously, although the superstition of the evil eye is often a potent consideration.
We meet the young hit men who guarded the kidnap victims, and odors of fatalism, superstition, and barbarism waft upward from the page, in an unmistakable indication that we are in the presence of the grimmest poverty.
As another step in its retreat into state-sponsored superstition, the board has also forbidden all references to the Big Bang.
Although Grille (in Grillen im Kopf haben) means, quite correctly, cricket in its first and literal meaning, and strange and surprising idea in its figurative sense, it ought to be mentioned that there is a direct, traceable link between the two: Grille acquired its figurative sense in the 16th century when—at least in Germany—the superstition prevailed that the demons of illness appeared in the guise of an insect.