Some cite a legend that the stone rolls down the low hill every night at midnight only to reappear each morning, though sceptics scoff at such superstition and say it only happens every Halloween.
At dusk – superstition has it – you can hear the cries of the babies.
In that sense, it's a very useful way of thinking, because the alternative is fatalism, which is to say, 'Oh, there's nothing I can do.' At least superstition makes people do things".
Janes noted: At times Tibetan medicine has been repudiated in official revolutionary discourse as superstition employed by the corrupt feudal elite in its exploitation of peasants and nomads.
This is an illness that laughs at our superstitions, it laughs at our politics, it dwarfs our wars, it laughs at our quackery, our love of money, and it shows up our morality as nothing more than vanity.
Years later, at an Oscar after-party, she saw Stevie Wonder sing "Superstition" at Prince's house.
We feel it strongly in the ferocious dark prints of the "Caprichos" of 1796-97, which slash at hypocritical marriage, at exploitative whores, quack doctors, grim superstition and at the torments of the Inquisition, the "black legend" that Goya loathed with the hatred of the "passionate humanist".
Her mother, while pretending to laugh at such superstitions, was, Emmeline knew, no different from her peasant forebears.
"I wanted to poke fun at our superstitions," he says, "but I also wanted to highlight our irrational nature in a way that is less critical and more about encouraging dialogue".
He acknowledged at least one superstition, that of reusing socks from successful competitions and discarding those from poor runs.
