Superstition
A term designating beliefs or practices that result from ignorance or a fear of the unknown. These beliefs and activities also may be caused an irrational abject attitude toward the supernatural and God.
"SUPERSTITION," "POVERTY" AND "WAR," BESET THE PEOPLES OF OUR ENTIRE WORLD, AND THESE RELENTLESS ENEMIES TO MANKIND'S FREEDOM"PEACE AND PROGRESS"CAN ONLY BE DESTROYED BY THE "CONCERTED EFFORT" OF "ALL" OF THE WORLD'S ENLIGHTENED THINKERS.
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Superstitions
(1) Fixed irrational notions held stubbornly in the face of evidence to the contrary; beliefs, practices, concepts or acts resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, morbid scrupulosity, erroneous concepts of causality, etc.
In other superstitions, if one looks into the mirror long enough at night or by candlelight, one will see the ; thus it is advisable, to cover up mirrors in the bedroom at night.
Severall Superstitions also about these times, concerning the worship of their Idols were instituted by men.
Obviously this superstition will be found among unthinking people only, but there is another element in the psychic's nature, which is very deep-seated-I mean the authoritativeness with which he invests his communications.
These particular superstitions, however, are too limited, and too much obliterated from recollection, to call for special discussion.
Popular Home Remedies and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania-Germans. Lancaster: Aurand, 1979.
Bailer, Aunt Sophia. "Witches...I Have Known." The Pennsylvania Dutchman May 1952:8.
", "How to Stop a Witch." The Pennsylvania Dutchman May 1952: 8-9.
That's nice, but rank superstition. There's this little thing full of letters in the book. What the hell do you do with it?
" (Believing in Magic The Psychology of Superstition, Stuart A. Vyse, Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford, 1997) The root of the word religion means relinking.
The early Christian leaders were upset about the multitude of candles being used, and condemned it as an abuse of superstition to burn them during the daytime in cemeteries.
Current Superstitions by Various - Project Gutenberg
Old Superstitions
Ritman Library: Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
A. Wilson: World's Scripture: A Comparative Anthology of Sacred Texts ...
For the benefit of the weaker souls who still cling to the superstition of "authentic, original, authoritative" editions, and who hope to find such authenticity in the "genuine" rituals, ...
This belief is neither bigotry nor superstition, only an ever-present, instinctive feeling of the proximity of another spiritual and invisible world, which, though it be subjective to the senses of the outward man, ...
When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear.
For many, such as John of Liven, astronomy and astrology had a legitimate place but he saw most divination as uneducated superstition.
Vices: Selfish and jealous love, overbearance, partiality, self-deception, sectarianism, superstition, prejudice, over-rapid conclusion, fiery anger, violence, fanaticism, suspicion.
In the simplistic worldview of secular-religious western consciousness, Occultism is considered equivalent to superstition and hence outmoded pre-scientific understanding in secular-acedemic modernity.
Most scientists reject astrology as groundless superstition, but it may be that, somehow, the affairs of humankind are reflected in the affairs of the wider universe.
It is important to remember, that in the ancient world and until end of the Renaissance (16th century), magic was seen not as superstition, but as a logical and coherent means of understanding the universe and controlling ones destiny.
It is believed by some, that the observance of certain superstitions will bring good luck. Some believe that by touching wood, searching for a four leaved clover or carrying a rabbits claw will in some way court 'Lady Luck'.
Sneezing myths you'll never forget
We may claim we are not superstitious, but what do you say when someone sneezes? Myths and superstitions constitute the attempts of early cultures to understand the world
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Franz Cumont, whose books on the subject so aroused the ire of the present Roman Catholic Hierarchy that they placed them on the Index, and warned the faithful away from his chapters of history. Today, as in Mithra's time, superstitions and empty ...
 See also: World, Spirit, Ritual, Spiritual, Light
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