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Synonyms: superstition; superstitious notion
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Of Superstition And Enthusiasm / Hume, David
Superstition and Enthusiasm" appeared in 1741 in the first volume of Hume's Essays, Moral and Political ... have been modernized. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Of Superstition details...- creator(s) - Hume, David
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- subject(s) - superstition; enthusiasm; unaccountable; priests; ceremonies; religion; species; sacred; liberty; divinity; contrary; devotions; shown; western philosophy; devotions; enthusiasm; western philosophy; liberty; contrary; superstition; shown; priests; sacred; religion; species; unaccountable; divinity; ceremonies;
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Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense / Meslier, Jean, 1664-1729
Project Gutenberg's Superstition In All Ages (1732), by Jean Meslier This eBook is for the use ... .gutenberg.org Title: Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense Author: Jean Meslier Commentator: Voltaire details...- creator(s) - Meslier, Jean, 1664-1729
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What they say in New England; a book of signs, sayings, and superstitions / Johnson, Clifton
Johnson, Clifton What they say in New England; a book of signs, sayings, and superstitions Lee and Shepard Folklore Omens Superstition ... details...- creator(s) - Johnson, Clifton
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- subject(s) - Folklore; Omens; Superstition;
- title - What they say in New England; a book of signs, sayings, and superstitions
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The golden bough; a study in magic and religion / Frazer, James George
Frazer, James George The golden bough; a study in magic and religion Macmillan Mythology Religion Magic Superstition ... details...- creator(s) - Frazer, James George
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- subject(s) - Mythology; Religion; Magic; Superstition;
- title - The golden bough; a study in magic and religion
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Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk /
The Project Gutenberg EBook of Current Superstitions, by Various This eBook is for the use ... .gutenberg.org Title: Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk Author details...- creator(s) -
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- subject(s) - massachusetts; mass; northern ohio; cape breton; luck; moon; eastern massachusetts; edward island; prince edward; sign; dream; new york; new hampshire; dream; mass; sign; edward island; cape breton; northern ohio; moon; massachusetts; luck; new york; new hampshire; eastern massachusetts; prince edward;
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Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology / Fiske, John, 1842-1901
-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by comparative mythology by John Fiske by John Fiske October ... DOMAIN ETEXTS*Ver.04.29.93*END* Myths and Myth-Makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted details...- creator(s) - Fiske, John, 1842-1901
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- subject(s) - aryan; myth; myths; mythology; solar; primitive; legend; primitive; legend; mythology; aryan; solar; myths; myth;
- title - Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology
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Folk Lore Superstitious Beliefs in the West of Scotland within This Century / Napier, James, 1810-1884
, 79 Divining, 105 Superstitions Relating to Animals, 111 Superstitions Concerning Plants, 122 Miscellaneous Superstitions ... details...- creator(s) - Napier, James, 1810-1884
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- subject(s) - beltane; yule; festival; superstitious; superstition; feast; superstition; beltane; feast; festival; yule; superstitious;
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Traits Of Indian Character / Irving, Washington
against those feelings of pride or superstition, which often prompts the Indian to hostility quicker than mere ... , his affections, his superstitions, are all directed towards fewer objects; but the wounds inflicted details...- creator(s) - Irving, Washington
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- subject(s) - indian; indians; warfare; stratagem; tribes; savage; tribe; hostility; superstition; wilderness; forests; american literature; warfare; tribes; indians; savage; superstition; forests; indian; wilderness; tribe; hostility; stratagem; american literature;
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The Natural History Of Religion / Hume, David
, and have afterwards, by its corruption, given birth to polytheism and to all the various superstitions of the heathen ... in superstition; as may particularly be observed of gamesters and sailors, who, though, of all mankind, the least details...- creator(s) - Hume, David
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- subject(s) - sect; deity; polytheism; theism; ect; deities; religion; superstition; mankind; vulgar; invisible; principles; religious; western philosophy; deities; ect; western philosophy; deity; mankind; principles; superstition; religious; sect; religion; polytheism; vulgar; invisible; theism;
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Bygone beliefs : being a series of excursions in the byways of thought. / Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley), 1887-1943
superstition, not worth the trouble of investigation : but it is not scientific. There is a reason for every ... ^ 3. MEDICINE AND MAGIC . . 25 4. SUPERSTITIONS CONCERNING BIRDS . 34 5. THE POWDER OF SYMPATHY details...- creator(s) - Redgrove, H. Stanley (Herbert Stanley), 1887-1943
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- publisher - London : Rider, 1920.
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- subject(s) - cambridge platonists; magic; pythagoras; bacon, roger, 1214?-1294; superstition; alchemy; bygone beliefs; alchemical; bygone; alchemists; talismans; roger bacon; phallic element; beliefs; clavicula salomonis; atalanta fugiens; metals; alchemical design; mystical; symbolic alchemical; bacon; spiritual; philosophy; theory; beliefs; cambridge platonists; mystical; magic; alchemical design; spiritual; metals; phallic element; bygone beliefs; roger bacon; bygone; talismans; atalanta fugiens; philosophy; clavicula salomonis; symbolic alchemical; pythagoras; alchemical; bacon, roger, 1214?-1294; theory; superstition; bacon; alchemy; alchemists;
- title - Bygone beliefs : being a series of excursions in the byways of thought.
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