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Meanings of popular superstition in English

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Usage of popular superstition in English
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Stories of this nature are very common in the annals of popular superstition.
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 2 (of 3) / Consisting ...
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They are an embodiment of a popular superstition, and nothing more.
Elizabethan Demonology / An Essay in Illustration of the Belief ...
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If a popular superstition is correct, I was predestined to journey.
The Story of My Life — Volume 01
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Yet, neither white nor black magic are what popular superstition understands by the terms.
Five Years of Theosophy
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This is still a popular superstition from Baghdad to Morocco.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09
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There is little popular superstition to endure its former dictation.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 64, February, 1863 / A Maga...
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What is characteristic of Italy is the support lent by humanism to the popular superstition.
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
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There was a popular superstition that strange unnatural happenings preceded great events, and they were seen
The Irish Times
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In this, as in many other instances, popular opinion should rather be called " popular superstition."
Nature Cure: Philosophy & Practice Based on the Unity of Disease...
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Why could he not take advantage of the popular superstition and disappear indeed, taking Glory with him!
The Christian: A Story
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It is a popular superstition, in which for some years the writer shared, that such effigies represented Crusaders.
English Villages
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She had remained a strict Catholic and had retained much of the lavish popular superstition of my country.
The Bride of Dreams
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There is a popular superstition that you ought never to pull off the keeper of a magnet suddenly.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 787, January 31, 1891
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An earthquake occurred on the 13th December of that year, which was well calculated to excite popular superstition.
A Reply to Dr. Lightfoot's Essays, by the Author of "Supernatura...
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The court found Newton guilty of witchcraft, and she fell a victim to the popular superstition of her time.
The Mysteries of All Nations / Rise and Progress of Superstition...
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Whether this was simply the popular superstition, or the result of reports circulated with an object, is not known.
Taras Bulba, and Other Tales
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