Superstition

Such a ridiculous superstition no longer exists.

This superstition still lingers on among them.

I have no faith in a silly superstition.

He believes in the superstition that 13 is an unlucky number.

"Where's that superstition from?" "Call it folk wisdom."

In Germany, there's a superstition that if you light a cigarette off a candle, a sailor will die at sea.

The gazing populace receive greedily, without examination, whatever soothes superstition and promotes wonder.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Superstition is certainly part of the present, past and future life of man.

There is superstition in Brazil.

What children we are in trifles! what slight things exercise an influence over us! to how much that our reason would be ashamed to acknowledge! nevertheless does it submit. Our whole nature must change; we must be less susceptible, less dependent on "blind accident," before we can shake off hopes and fears, which are almost superstitions.