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The superstition of the little damsel did indeed suggest numerous obstacles.
PHILOTHEALYDIA MARIA CHILD
The quietness of everything there frightened me, called up every foolish, childhood fear and superstition.
THE SEVEN-BRANCHED CANDLESTICKGILBERT W. (GILBERT WOLF) GABRIEL
Superstition apart, this strange coincidence was really striking.
THE ART OF NEEDLE-WORK, FROM THE EARLIEST AGES, 3RD ED.ELIZABETH STONE
Often the superstition connected therewith is forgotten in the excitement of the moment.
THE BOOK OF HALLOWE'ENRUTH EDNA KELLEY
Their sluggish minds were prone to all the superstition of the Middle Ages.
HISTORY OF THE JEWS, VOL. III (OF 6)HEINRICH GRAETZ
Superstition has indeed played its part among them; but it has never, as in Europe, been perpetually dominant.
People who make a superstition of politeness infallibly lose the higher courtesy of truth.
THE INVADERMARGARET L. WOODS
The decay of religion and the increase of superstition are among the most noteworthy of the social changes which I have seen.
SEEING AND HEARINGGEORGE W. E. RUSSELL
I did not then know how little he was addicted to superstition.
THE ADVENTURES OF FERDINAND COUNT FATHOM, COMPLETETOBIAS SMOLLETT
Sloth and superstition equally counterwork providence, and render the bounty of heaven of no effect.
THE HISTORY OF EMILY MONTAGUEFRANCES BROOKE
WORDS RELATED TO SUPERSTITION
- abandonment
- arbitrariness
- bias
- bigotry
- contumacy
- dedication
- devotion
- dogma
- enthusiasm
- extremism
- faction
- frenzy
- hatred
- illiberality
- immoderation
- incorrigibility
- infatuation
- injustice
- intolerance
- madness
- monomania
- obsessiveness
- obstinacy
- partiality
- partisanship
- passion
- prejudice
- rage
- single-mindedness
- stubbornness
- superstition
- tenacity
- transport
- unfairness
- unreasonableness
- unruliness
- violence
- willfulness
- zeal
- zealotry
- alchemy
- allurement
- astrology
- augury
- bewitchment
- black art
- conjuring
- conjury
- devilry
- diabolism
- divination
- enchantment
- exorcism
- fascination
- foreboding
- fortune-telling
- hocuspocus
- horoscopy
- illusion
- incantation
- legerdemain
- magnetism
- necromancy
- occultism
- of impossible feats by tricks abracadabra
- power
- prediction
- presage
- prestidigitation
- prophecy
- rune
- sleight of hand
- soothsaying
- sorcery
- sortilege
- spell
- superstition
- taboo
- thaumaturgy
- trickery
- voodoo
- voodooism
- witchcraft
- wizardry
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