I caressed it, to the horror of his superstitious mother, who snatched the child away and washed and rubbed the poor little fellow's face until the skin was sore, declaring that children die who are touched by strangers.
They are superstitious and hold in curious awe the spirits of the mountains, the sun, the moon, fire, water, and wind.
I asked permission to retain it, and with their superstitiousnature they immediately thought that it had occult powers, like the wands one reads of in fairy tales.
Tibetans are, as a rule, excessively superstitious and fond of charms of every sort.
This created quite a panic among the Tibetans, and many were the conjectures of their superstitious minds as to the meaning of the strange contrivance.
This ludicrous incident at first provoked mirth among my escort, a mirth which their superstitious minds immediately turned into an ill omen.
Superstitious as seamen are said to be, they might find a good excuse, if they knew my mission, not only for their superstition, but for ridding themselves of one on such an awful errand.
He had outlived all the officers who left Manfaloot with the regiment save the bimbashi, and the bimbashi was superstitious and believed that while Seti lived he would live.
The superstitious Dervishes fell back before this pair of demons; for their madness was like the madness of those who at the Dosah throw themselves beneath the feet of the Sheikh's horse by the mosque of El Hassan in Cairo.
This aroused the superstitious indignation of the Archduke, who demanded that the lady should retire from the room instantly, or he would order his carriage and leave the hotel at once.
The superstitious feelings of the Indians, for a moment, were excited; and they thought that their intended victims must have been rescued by the direct interposition of the Great Spirit of the pale-faces.
Pale-face prisoners send letter to talk," said the Seneca, as he surveyed the document with a sort of superstitious fear.
The idea that Estein was under a spell took rapid hold of the superstitious crew.
Drink was served round in huge beakers, and the superstitious fears vanished like the fog as they rowed in triumph out of the bay.
The lying whimsies of a few sick children, encouraged by foolish parents, and drawn out by superstitious neighbours, were sufficient to set a country in a flame.
The woman, in the darkness of her cell, could not detect the imposture, aided as it was by her own superstitious fears.
All the inferior clergy, animated by the esprit du corps, took up the question, and so worked upon the superstitious and bigoted people, that they were ready to rise in a mass to storm the palace of the Viceroy and rescue the prisoner.
The dream made a great impression on his superstitious mind, and he made a solemn vow that if ever he recovered his health, he would take a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
Some few of the most devoutly superstitious still held out in their first belief, and refused to listen to any explanation.
But a few steps further she paused, arrested by a sight which turned her numb with superstitious terror.
She's superstitious enough, in all conscience, yet she has the happy faculty of keeping her lugubrious son in subjection.
Both recognized it at once, and even upon Adrian the shock was painful; but its effect upon superstitious Pierre was far greater.
She was very superstitious and she believed firmly in ghosts, and saw no absurdity in her question.
The Temples were a superstitious family, and there was nothing in Roger's upbringing to correct the tendency.
The whole volume of "Strange Stories" fascinates us with a superstitious horror.
These were absurd superstitious blockheads of Monks; and we are enlightened Tenpound Franchisers, without taxes on knowledge!
Those superstitious blockheads of the Twelfth Century had no telescopes, but they had still an eye; not ballot-boxes; only reverence for Worth, abhorrence of Unworth.
There are vast tracts untrodden by human feet, or traversed only by Indians who have a superstitious reverence for the moss-covered and crumbling monuments hidden in the depths of the wilderness.
The thing would be funny were it not for its sad side, namely, the dense andsuperstitious ignorance in which such as this poor sexton are held all their lives by your Church.
Josè could never understand the nature of this man, so brave in the face of physical danger, yet so permeated with superstitious dread of those imaginary inhabitants of the invisible realm.
She drew back, and a frightened, superstitious look came into her face.
To the stagnant wits of Simità she was one of them, but with singular characteristics which caused the more superstitious and less intelligent to look upon her as an uncanny creature, possessed of occult powers.
The superstitious people of the past (they say) believed that a lot of black bristles standing out at right angles to one's face was a positive affair.
I pause to wish a Happy Christmas in its most superstitious sense), the one thing modern people really do believe in is damnation.
To confess a crime to one who is about to share your fate is, perhaps, rather a superstitious than a religious deed.
He was quite satisfied now that the man to whom, in a moment of superstitious weakness, he had confided his secret had passed to where he could do him no earthly mischief.
Here Silvia had twin sons, whose father was said, in the oldsuperstitious fashion, to be Mars, the God of War.
And now, in the midst of the Forum, there yawned open a fearful gulf, so wide and deep that the superstitious Romans viewed it with awe and affright.
By this superstitious rite, they were devoted to bear the family feud, or enmity.
The rocking stone, commonly reckoned a Druidical monument, has always been held in superstitious veneration by the people.
It is a festival celebrated with varioussuperstitious rites, both in the north of Scotland and in Wales.
But the vision of that morning, whether real or imaginary, had impressed his mind with a superstitious feeling which he in vain endeavoured to shake off.
Her legends began to relate to the fortunes of the Ravenswood family, whose ancient grandeur and portentous authority credulity had graced with so many superstitious attributes.
Thus seated, he banished, as much as he could, the superstitious feelings which the late incident naturally inspired.
To a superstitious eye, Lucy Ashton, folded in her plaided mantle, with her long hair, escaping partly from the snood and falling upon her silver neck, might have suggested the idea of the murdered Nymph of the fountain.
You drive me to madness, Alice," said Ravenswood; "you are more silly and more superstitious than old Balderstone.
If there was here an "instance of superstitious credulity," it was not "a very late instance.
The frauds of Dousterswivel, Scott says, are rendered plausible by "very late instances of the force of superstitious credulity to a much greater extent.
These sentiments often attached themselves to the given theology with dogmatic fierceness; and in the background superstitious fears were only too apt to smolder.
They have given a sanction to all sorts of superstitious beliefs and have helped to carry over into our day an outlook which would otherwise have been more quickly cast off.
He hated the French domination to which his brother had submitted; yet his pride as sovereign was subordinated to his allegiance to Rome and a superstitious veneration for the wily priests with which Louis XIV.
A superstitious man suspects everything that is pleasant.
My idea is this: Any man who acts in view of the Improbable or of the Impossible--that is to say of the Supernatural--is a superstitious man.
But as she had burned the letter, so she likewise destroyed all evidence of her cousin's superstitious weakness; and of neither one nor the other did she speak when the farmer returned to his home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superstitious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
