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What does superstition mean?

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Noun
  1. A belief, not based on human reason or scientific knowledge, that future events may be influenced by one's behaviour in some magical or mystical way.
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Blood is spilled on the earth in old rites masked as simple superstition so as not to raise the ire of the Yahwist religious rulers of Samaria.
He rebuked his scientific colleagues for the modern superstition of secularism.
We had been schooled to dismiss them as being objects of religion, ritual and superstition.
Instead, debate is often overwhelmed by superstition, folk wisdom, prejudice and self-serving agendas.
I would die to free our people from the chains of bigotry and superstition.
It is largely secondary knowledge and includes much herbal lore as well as superstition.

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