Stories of this nature are very common in the annals of popular superstition.

They are an embodiment of a popular superstition, and nothing more.

If a popular superstition is correct, I was predestined to journey.

Yet, neither white nor black magic are what popular superstition understands by the terms.

This is still a popular superstition from Baghdad to Morocco.

There is little popular superstition to endure its former dictation.

What is characteristic of Italy is the support lent by humanism to the popular superstition.

There was a popular superstition that strange unnatural happenings preceded great events, and they were seen

In this, as in many other instances, popular opinion should rather be called " popular superstition."

Why could he not take advantage of the popular superstition and disappear indeed, taking Glory with him!

It is a popular superstition, in which for some years the writer shared, that such effigies represented Crusaders.

She had remained a strict Catholic and had retained much of the lavish popular superstition of my country.

There is a popular superstition that you ought never to pull off the keeper of a magnet suddenly.

An earthquake occurred on the 13th December of that year, which was well calculated to excite popular superstition.

The court found Newton guilty of witchcraft, and she fell a victim to the popular superstition of her time.

Whether this was simply the popular superstition, or the result of reports circulated with an object, is not known.