Stories of this nature are very common in the annals of popular superstition.
The snail of popular superstition is demoniacal; hence it is also invoked by children in Germany by the name of the funereal St Gertrude-- "Kuckuck, kuckuck Gerderut Staek dine ver Horns herut.
An immense deal of legendary lore, however, has clustered round this curious phenomenon, popular superstition attributing it to the merry roundelays of the moonlight fairies.
From the very earliest times the moon has not only been an object of popular superstition, but been honored by various acts of adoration.
The inference is almost inevitable that the Golden Bough was nothing but the mistletoe seen through the haze of poetry or of popular superstition.
In Sweden, also, it is a popular superstition that if mistletoe is to possess its peculiar virtue, it must either be shot down out of the oak or knocked down with stones.
Or, more probably, his description was based on a popular superstition that at certain times the mistletoe blazed out into a supernatural golden glory.
Altogether it is not easy to see why such an inconspicuous and insignificant flower should play so large a part in popular superstition.
Though they are contemptuous of popular superstition, yet they embody the popular ideal.
Philosophic Taoism, being somewhat abstruse and unpractical, might seem to have little chance of becoming a popular superstition.
As in funeral rites, so in matters of daily life, Buddhism gives its countenance and help to popular superstition, to every kind of charm for reading the future, securing happiness and driving away evil spirits.
There are other phenomena besides these prismatic colours, which have had an evil name in popular superstition, despite their beauty.
Truly, popular superstition, as well as tradition, is "tough.
Reginald Scot gives us a very graphic full-length portrait of the devil of popular superstition in the sixteenth century.
Even scientific knowledge, while enabling the thoughtful to correct their religious conceptions, in some forms lends itself easily to the promotion of popular superstition.
It is carried to the place where the treasure is supposed to be concealed, and, according to popular superstition, its point will turn towards the exact spot.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "popular superstition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
