On both the scientific and the Catholic view, whoever believed in vampires was regarded as superstitious and condemned as uneducated.

Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious.

So from this small, superstitious, middle class neighborhood of my grandmother, I was zoomed into this posh, international school in Madrid , where I was the only Turk.

In religion, folk religion, and superstitious beliefs, the correlation posited is often between religious ritual, prayer, sacrifice, or the observance of a taboo, and an expected benefit or recompense.

Little was done to investigate the legitimacy of these practices, as many foreigners believed that the native medical practices were pagan and superstitious and could only be suitably fixed by inheriting Western methods.