That is a superstition.

There is a superstition that it causes blisters on the feet.

But the parallel development of science underpinned efforts to expose such superstition.

Wouldn't it be nice if they take a united stand for science and against superstition?

The Halappanavar case thus reverses the Western stereotype of Eastern societies as preserves of superstition and religious extremism.

In the official view, Ahmadinejad and his circle lack rationality and wisdom indeed, they are said to be in the grip of superstition.

But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

News accounts depict hordes of emotional people trading on hunch and superstition. That looks a lot more like reality than all the talk of impending financial singularity.

There is my world and there is your world, and my world is always better than your world, because my world, you see, is rational and yours is superstition.

Now, as president, Yanukovich s crude instinct is to treat the law and constitution as Karl Marx thought of them as a mixture of sentimentality, superstition, and the unconscious rationalization of private interests.

In 1995, the cosmologist Carl Sagan expressed concern about the trend toward a society in which, clutching our crystals and religiously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in steep decline we slide, almost without noticing, into superstition and darkness.

If, as we were taught by Marx, belief in a higher law is a mixture of sentimentality, superstition, and unconscious rationalizations, then the predations that incited the Orange Revolution are in reality the only possible conditions in which we can live.

Lush with primary and secondary virgin jungle, Malaysians have long held a respect for the forests. It also helps that myths, whether bearing down from the forefathers or from urban legend, has caused a lot of superstition surrounding the vast jungle of Malaysia.

Now you, as Westerners, and I, as Westerners, would say well, that's superstition. But after being there for a while, and seeing the amazing things that happened, you begin to wonder whose beliefs are those that are in operation in the world, determining how things happen.