Sentence examples for superstition from inspiring English sources

Maybe there's a superstition in Hollywood that to prepare a script is bad luck.

The Islam of north Africa, where most of France's Muslims come from, belongs to the Maliki school – a tolerant and easygoing tradition that does not force women to wear veils and encourages such non-fundamentalist activities as music, Sufi mysticism, superstition and magic.

In The Wendigo (1908), superstition creates a monster, which makes off with a native American tracker in the Canadian forest; in The Willows (1907), marsh willows move in on a couple of canoeists on the Danube; in The Man Whom the Trees Loved (1912), a wife watches helplessly as her husband is consumed by his love of trees.

Advice that runs counter to cultural practices is resented and in the absence of authority, myth and superstition take over.

Brother Cadfael fought in the Crusades before becoming a monk; his experience of life and his knowledge of herbs, learned from Muslims in the Holy Land, make him a humane and relatively practical voice amid the superstition, able to see clearly through the crimes that the civil war brings to Shrewsbury Abbey.

Punch magazine would personify graveyard miasma, in doggerel, as 'The Vampyre (NO SUPERSTITION)', ('To work vengeance and woe is his mission of dread. Upon those mid the living who bury their dead').

Even if it’s just in my own mind, I have to be allowed that superstition; that the reason why people are believing what I’m doing is because they don’t know what I’m really like, they don’t know how I sit or speak, they’ve never really seen it.

Where FC Barcelona celebrate their successes and where a puffing Pochettino, continuing a long tradition of footballing superstition, pleaded with the virgin to save the region's other, often forgotten club.

I did a lot of research on superstition for I'll Give You the Sun.

For Lynas, its stance is "just superstition.

More than two centuries later, an area of low-pressure mixed with a dose of superstition had a similar effect on John Wesley, one of the 18th century's great religious entrepreneurs.