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- Superstition - n. - An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is unknown or mysterious.
- Superstition - n. - An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice; extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites not commanded, or of points of minor importance; also, a rite or practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion.
- Superstition - n. - The worship of a false god or gods; false religion; religious veneration for objects.
- Superstition - n. - Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens, prognostics, or the like.
- Superstition - n. - Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness.
- Superstitionist - n. - One addicted to superstition.
- Vampire - n. - A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
- Deathbird - n. - Tengmalm's or Richardson's owl (Nyctale Tengmalmi); -- so called from a superstition of the North American Indians that its note presages death.
- Voodooism - n. - A degraded form of superstition and sorcery, said to include human sacrifices and cannibalism in some of its rites. It is prevalent among the negroes of Hayti, and to some extent in the United States, and is regarded as a relic of African barbarism.
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- G1175 δεισιδαιμονία - 1175 δεισιδαιμονία - ΔΕΙΣΙΔΑΙΜΟΝΊΑ - - deisidaimonía - dice-ee-dahee-mon-ee'-ah - from the same as δεισιδαιμονέστερος; religion:--superstition. - Noun Feminine - greek
- H8079 שְׂמָמִית - 8079 שְׂמָמִית - שְׂמָמִית - - sᵉmâmîyth - sem-aw-meeth' - probably from שָׁמֵם (in the sense of poisoning); a lizard (from the superstition of its noxiousness); spider. - Noun Feminine - heb
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