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His mother wasn't highly educated, but because she was superstitious, she introduced Andersen to folklore.

Being superstitious, they never ate anyone who was less than whole. So untying the king, they sent him on his way.

To be perfectly candid, my own condition was not far removed from that of superstitious fear.

of fairy tales at a time when you've got the French romping all over the place, trying to enlighten the superstitious Germans.

I'm still too superstitious to declare victory, but it looks as if my daughter is going to make it.

Inman did not consider himself to be a superstitious person, but he did believe that there is a world invisible to us.

I did not superstitious, but I really want to have the next life, so I had the opportunity to - feed your love.

Superstitious folk believed him invulnerable, for had not thousands of bullets and shells failed to destroy him?

Even if it may be unrealistic to dislodge superstitious attitudes, it does not mean we have to be ruled by them.

First of all that food, light diet to lose weight is not superstitious, the body will be hungry virtual.

In the preface to one of his plays Bernard Shaw remarks that people are more superstitious today than they were in the Middle Age.

In his day, Confucius seems to have had a great dislike for superstitious practices, but his descendants seem to have behaved otherwise.

I'm not a very superstitious person, but I've taken a few precautions to help prevent jinxing future events.

I'm not usually superstitious, but it's good to be careful this time of year, just in case, though I'm not doing a very good job of it.

For many Anglicans, and for a long time, Roman Catholicism was not just a foreign, superstitious creed, it was demonstrably cruel.

A common sailor might be forgiven for his superstitious prejudice but compare the contrasting beliefs of the educated classes of the time.

Hotels across Asia are proving to be superstitious - or at least attached to the numeral eight.

Bernard Shaw points out in the preface to a drama that people nowadays are more superstitious than in the medieval period.

Conclusion: To believe destiny has controlled your future and life is superstitious and should be wiped out of your mind.

Superstitious people are gullible people and a leader can exploit this for his own purposes.

For the superstitious Chinese, the fire is likely to be seen as a bad omen.

It was a place of heathenism and superstitious rites, to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to the wild animals than we.

I'll set up my throne above, Cold and terrible will be the peak of it. Superstitious trembling is at its base, Master - most black agony.

The man, who was superstitious, decided to wait for the next train and he reached Manchester.

I have , as it were , a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist .

We are superstitious to the science now, and believe seeing is the truth, but we aren't able to find our skew self-will out.

Despite knowing better, even the most rational of us seem to have some superstitious beliefs.

Pouring water out of vases, and stopping the clocks in a house in which death has occurred seem to mask some superstitious fear.

not now . They 're superstitious , you know . They leave .

If you think it all hinged on the pilot wearing his lucky underpants, you're superstitious.

I write distractedly, but this girl-this Jeanie Deans, is a peevish puritan, superstitious and scrupulous after the manner of her sect.

Superstitious beliefs are not in and of themselves a common reason for people to seek psychotherapy.

After a severe illness it was not uncommon for the person, from superstitious considerations, to solicit and obtain a second change of name.

Being so superstitious, all those in the hall agreed that this must be done, or the god would surely punish the king and the kingdom.

It gives me hope that some day, maybe, the civilized world may grow out of its superstitious adolescence.

This course will examine phenomena often viewed as irrational and superstitious to see how they can be understood in cultural terms.

I'm not superstitious . The horoscope sometimes turns out to be accurate.

She was much too down-to-earth to be superstitious, but two little totems she kept close.

China views Tibet as a backward, feudal, and superstitious society, which has progressed democratically and economically under Chinese rule.

I'm not being superstitious, but his predictions turn out to be accurate.

Tom is very superstitious and the least thing he wants to see is black crow.

Some of Bear Stearns's more superstitious traders even objected to the strategy's name: They were tempting fate by invoking chaos.

SUPERSTITIOUS man, Sri Lanka's president, Mahinda Rajapaksa, once had a popular astrologer arrested for foretelling his downfall.

If I were superstitious, I would have said that the evil eye has hit the Libyan bloggers.

The market share of those superstitious objects is becoming smaller and smaller in this regard during the Qingming Festival.

Qiu is a superstitious person who seeks divinations , and he had conflicts many times with the temple administrators.

On the face of it, there is every difference in the world between superstitious and empirical, evidence-based thinking.

Even pigeons can develop superstitious habits, as psychologist B. F. Skinner famously showed in an experiment.

Thirdly, whether the extent of injury is different between the impossible criminal attempt and superstitious offense. 3.

The superstitious have long regarded Friday the 13th to be a day prone to accidents and misfortune.

But he that does not superstitious predecessors and Sage, the pursuit of independent thought spirit is worth studying.

As history goes on, the Greeks became more religious and superstitious as the faiths of the conquered welled up from below.

Someone was very superstitious and has blind faith in feng shui. Whatever he did, he would ask a geomancer first. . .

You could, for instance, acknowledge the superstitious shiver and get on with having 13 people at your dinner party regardless.

9 see joke: Have a very superstitious and geomantic person, be about to be consulted to geomantic gentleman easily.

Still shy, he left socialising to Suzanne Luling, his vivacious sales director, and he grew even more superstitious with age.

It is indeed quite a tragedy to a nation with millions of people lost in superstitious and fatuous spiritual state.

Answer : absolutely . Blind admiration or worship for the experts without judgment of one' own is too superstitious and unreasonable.

The so-called imperial examination omen is the superstitious beliefs that could indicate signs of imperial examination information.

We who practice the Quan Yin Method are clear about everything , and should not be superstitious .

Science Refuses Superstition--on "Science Superstition and Superstitious Science"

Sadly, society today is still largely based on outmoded, superstitious dispositions and resolutions.

The two of them now resembled a superstitious swamp devil, humming, hovering, and plowing through the miasma .

Generally, women were more superstitious than men about four-leaf clovers , breaking mirrors or grooms prematurely seeing brides.

That's why many superstitious connections are likely to remain firm, despite our best rational efforts to loosen them.

On the way back, many travelers expressed that the Tibetan living style was primitive and their religious beliefs superstitious.

Maybe it's a little superstitious, I think I meant to be lonely.

Consider coal with a superstitious eye, and foul air might seem a curse suffered for disinterring preancient life.

However, in the religious world or among the superstitious people, the belief in afterlife is very popular.

Yet superstitious behavior can be recognized in many animals, not just humans.

Can we not be allowed a certain superstitious faith that we will ultimately locate a creature who can appease our painful yearnings?

It forbids tormenting women with superstitious and violent means and bans maltreatment or abandonment of aged women.

" Often there were Buddhist priests on our site performing ceremonies . We're not superstitious , but [the farmers ] are, " he says.

Superstitious Etruscans employed weather watchers as advisers.

On Friday the 13th, some people are so superstitious that they go as far as to refuse to leave the house.

Superstitious people believed that all spirits of the dead were dangerous, and put up signs and wards to fend them off.

A report from India last winter shows just how far people will go in following superstitious beliefs.

My cousin, Jessica, a youngish middle-age female, is a native New Yorker, and is also a quite superstitious.

Comets have long been regarded by the superstitious as portents of calamity or important events.

The superstitious man put the priority supersonic superiority.

Not an ordinarily superstitious people, Germans became believers in Paul's possible psychic powers.

And even the most superstitious villagers no longer take off their hats to the magpie and wish it good- morning .

A chilling reminder of our superstitious past has been unearthed from a rural farmhouse.

See, this is why professional athletes are such a wildly superstitious lot.

Later on, little by little, firecrackers have become a kind of superstitious activity to avoid evil, greet gods, and pray for good fortune.

Gillanbone was not a particularly superstitious community, but even the most cynical resident shivered that Sunday, September 2nd.

Superstitious people believe that the dead can return to the world and suck the blood of living people.

Devil phobia is a fear of the severe type of disease, superstitious people suffering from the disease probability is very large.

Superstitious beliefs are deep-rooted in many cultures, and nothing can change these beliefs.

In ancient times, there is a very superstitious people, everything should be brought him some luck.

Superstitious beliefs are deep-rooted in many cultures, and nothing can change these beliefs.

In ancient times, there is a very superstitious people, everything should be brought him some luck.

From the superstitious age it was thought that jealous forces, always present, are only too anxious to spoil any venture.

were portrayed to stir the imaginations of the superstitious sailors of the day.

He believes that Christians are superstitious, uneducated.

Superstitious people believe that the sight of magpie is a good omen.

Carl Sagan once mused that, if not for the superstitious Dark Ages, we'd be flying to the stars today.

People who work in the theatre are very superstitious, and there are a number of unusual superstitions connected with the theatre.

Today these superstitious practices are no more, but their influence lingers on in the minds of some people.

Why Scientists Might Get Involved in Superstitious Activities?

(3) I'm not usually superstitious, but yesterday was a VERY unlucky day.

Why are Chinese people today so stupid, superstitious, fooled and mean-spirited ?

It's not a countryfull of enlightened people; it's a country full of highly superstitious people(hence the Islam).

Tree spirits who live there receive the best offerings. And they are even worshipped by the superstitious people living in those places.

We humans are a superstitious lot, believing that Friday the 13th is bad luck and finding a penny is good luck.

Our attitude toward our teachers should be respectful, but not slavish or superstitious.

People have grown so superstitious that they take dreams seriously.

Because Taiwanese are superstitious and afraid of being near dead people.

and even now, a thousand years later, his name is still familiar. The reason for this is a superstitious belief.

Superstitious: of unreasoning belief in magic Mary is superstitious; she believes everything that a magician tells him.

Superstitious: of unreasoning belief in magic Mary is superstitious; she believes everything that a magician tells him.

It is inappropriate to dismiss these rich ethical traditions as superstitious.

Ashley: I'm not superstitious, but it's true. I mean, it's bad luck. Dane, how's my scope?

All superstitious nonsense! I would still like to go to one and see what he or she has to say, just for kicks.

Superstitious people think red frightens the devil.

Why not? The whole idea is superstitious.

So many superstitious stories, with no scientific or medical basis.

There's some mighty fine advice in these words, even if you're not superstitious.

Superstitious nonsense, of course, but one can see their point.

He is a greedy, superstitious, proud, spiritless and stupid fellow.

These superstitious practices should be abolished as soon as possible.

Some superstitious practices should be abolished as soon as possible.

Too superstitious to them what will bring about the low vulgarization of culture and speech is graceless change.

A In America, thirteen is considered to be a superstitious number.

The walking dead are not, as the superstitious are wont to believe, the living come back for revenge.

Bernard Shaw proposes such view in his script's foreword: Today the people compare when the middle ages is more superstitious.

It is superstitious people that sully the perfection of numbers.

The superstitious buried them.

Some superstitious think crow is the symbol of bad luck.

"I'm superstitious, so yes, I've been very careful, " she says.

Just checked the previous reading to make notes, think this thing may be to some superstitious people have a point of use, they stick out.

One is that history has a superstitious attitude toward science, and the other is that human elements disappear from history.

The history of superstitious pratices can often help to explain them.

Is believing Wu Xing superstitious? What is the foundation for Wu Xing?

This is no time to be superstitious!

I always put my left shoe on first; I'm superstitious .

Some people are superstitious about 13's, but I worry whenever I see 9's written out.

I never feel that they are a superstitious people, but I have to Chidun before the game can not be Chinese food.

Customer: there is a 4, is the meaning of the "dead" , not lucky, I'm superstitious.

Now, before I go on, you should know that I'm not an overly superstitious person.

I don't believe in magic, a lot of superstitious hocus-pocus.

not superstitious, don't use a single advertisement, long-term use of drugs.

Those who are superstitious usually think they can communicate with such force through some peculiar way.

What's more, the workers are superstitious in some ways.

I'm not in any way superstitious and I don't think I have any fear of life.

Superstitious people believe that man is made up of three parts, that is, body, soul, and spirit.

I am just superstitious enough not to name it.

In connotation, it is related not only to cognition, but also to the volition of the superstitious person and his sentiments.

DB: Nothing special because i'm not superstitious.

He has a superstitious thought that black cat are unlucky.

Many people are superstitious about death at sea.

Perhaps that's why superstitious behaviours to bring good luck are so common: they can sometimes work.

What's going on, she suggests, is that when we feel a lack of control we fall back on superstitious ways of thinking.

Adriana: I am nervous about ladders, but I have a black cat. So I guess I'm not very superstitious. What about you?

But at that time, people superstitious instrument, believe this with the actual length error of large numbers.

It is also no secret that he is superstitious.

1 Introduction [00: 07. 24]A In America, thirteen is considered to be a superstitious number.

Many people in the Chinese community are superstitious about discussing cancer.

Why I was puzzled was because, in China, geomancy was regarded as superstitious .

There is not much doubt, for example, that the generals are superstitious.

Are you sophisticated or superstitious?

Hallie: Are you a superstitious person, Caroline?

Adriana: We should go to class today and find out more about superstitious then!

When the clock stopped last time, my father's car was towed and some other terrible things happened, so he has become very superstitious.

Very superstitious, the devil's on his way,

From the Superstitious Taboo to See the Cultural Difference between Western and Eastern Countries

Expression used, often while touching sth made of wood, in the superstitious or humorous hope of avoiding bad luck

The Scientific Reasonableness Influence on Religion--Differentiation between Modern Mainstream Religion and Superstitious

Psychological Analysis and Philosophical Reflection on Feudal Superstitious Beliefs

The Difference between the Religion Activity and Feudal Superstitious Activity

Trend of Feudal and Superstitious Activities and Its Effect on the Public Health

Do not Smear Great Men in Superstitious Colours

Very superstitious, nothin' more to say,

avoid losing the first month the first day of garbage, because people superstitious doing so will remove the luck and wealth drained;

Investigation Report on Superstitious Activities in Rural Areas of Hunan Province

Architectonics Is Scientific and Geomancy Is Superstitious

Very superstitious, writings on the wall,

shall not do superstitious activities or sacrificial rites in any form inside the medical institution;

My Personal Experience--Expose the Superstitious Fraud

The evolution of superstitious hypotheses in ancient China

Very superstitious, ladders bout' to fall,

The Nature of the Chinese Ancient Myths and Their Difference from the Superstitious Believes

The Legal Religion And The Superstitious Cult

No time to be superstitious

That is reactionary, obscene, superstitious or absurd;

it is diffcult to abolish superstitious practices in our daily life

We must get rid of all superstitious ideas

On superstitious beliefs in English proverbs and their translation