• 020 -118.137 11.3 5.2 Mw 0 1 1987-11-24 01:54 United States (see 1987 Superstition Hills earthquakes) 33.257 -115.756 15 6.0 Mw 0 2 2 2 1987-11-26 01:43...
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    Spilling salt (category Superstitions)
    A superstition in Western cultures holds that spilling salt is an evil omen. However, salt has had a variety of meanings in religions around the world...
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  • animation features "true-blue Malaysian elements" such as supernatural superstitions (pontianaks or female vampires), monkeys trained to pluck coconuts,...
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    "(19) SNEEZING". The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs, pp. 175–179. A book that lists many superstitions and customs that are still common today...
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  • death from a high fever, Yehudit was so desperate she indulged an old superstition: to outsmart the Angel of Death, she 'sold' Aheret to Rena for a pittance...
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    deviance and moral corruption, is Xie (邪). Aside from recurring in Chinese superstition of the imperial era, they also appear as antagonists, and sometimes protagonists...
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    12–15 m (40–50 feet) in length. The kraken, as a subject of sailors' superstitions and mythos, was first described in the modern era in a travelogue by...
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    now dedicated to the sufferings of the martyrs purified from impious superstitions. Other Christian crosses stand in several points around the arena and...
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  • two Dominika Pawłowska "Respect" (Aretha Franklin) Safe Maciej Silski "Superstition" (Stevie Wonder) Safe Magdalena Diaków "We Will Rock You" (Queen) Eliminated...
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    Palad khik (category Superstitions of Thailand)
    Palad Khik (Thai: ปลัดขิก, pronounced [pā.làt kʰìk], RTGS: palatkhik) is a kind of Thai amulet that is shaped like a penis. The phrase "palad khik" means...
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    legend in the absence of corroborative evidence. In our opinion this superstition arose from the fact that barnacle geese breed in such remote latitudes...
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    honored their gods by sacrificing live animals and using votive offerings. Superstition was prominent in the Samnite religion. It was believed that magical chants...
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  • Bene Gesserit charged with spreading contrived myths, prophecies and superstition on primitive worlds so that the Bene Gesserit may later exploit those...
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    against popular devotion, arguing that Buddhism should be "purified from superstition". In 1963, in response to a hostile government, Vietnamese Mahayana and...
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  • The Kampung Boy, also known as Lat, the Kampung Boy or simply Kampung Boy, is a graphic novel by Lat about a young boy's experience growing up in rural...
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    an amp. Stevie Wonder uses a Clavinet in many of his songs, such as "Superstition" and "Higher Ground". A Clavinet played through an instrument amplifier...
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    on science and superstition. Taixu's main argument in the article is that all of the superstition in the world such as "The superstition of God or the...
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    Tiberius, by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilate, and the pernicious superstition was checked for a moment..." (Tacitus, Annals 15.44). Josephus also mentioned...
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    that the idea of restoring the physical holy places was "detestable superstition". One of the first to number the crusades was the French Catholic lawyer...
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    espied, and ignorance to be detected; truth from error, religion from superstition, to be discerned." Foxe downplays Chaucer's bawdy and amorous writing...
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    The English word "pasty" derives from Medieval French (O.Fr. paste from V.Lat pasta) for a pie, filled with venison, salmon or other meat, vegetables or...
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  • Wolfsangel (category Superstitions of Europe)
    & Raspe. p. 664. Retrieved 12 June 2015. Wolffs-Angel, frantz. hamecon, lat. uncus quo lupi capiuntur, ist die Form eines halben Mondes und hat inwendig...
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    consequence they were moved to the edge of the roads in 1852. It is local superstition that if you accidentally step in the Bächle, you will marry a Freiburger...
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  • Fish Creek, Maricopa County; it runs west then northwest out of the Superstition Mountains Fish Creek, San Bernardino County Fish Creek, Routt County...
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    Lucretius, the Epicurean rationalist, against what is usually translated as "superstition" was in fact aimed at excessive religio. Roman religion was based on...
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    Time of Peace." — Erasmus, "Charon", Colloquies He was scandalized by superstitions, such as that if you were buried in a Franciscan habit you would go...
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    Service of Offering, the rest of Holy Mass I will celebrate elsewhere!" ("Låt oss avsluta mässoffret, resten av gudstjänsten ska jag fira på annan ort...
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  • upon any, for the like mystical Signification, you cry aloud, Superstition, Superstition, an apish mimical action, &c." Though liturgical sufflation is...
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    remarks on their obstinacy in pagan ritus et superstitio ('usage and superstition'). The conversion of the Saxons in England from their original Germanic...
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  • suffering" and lead society back to the basics of Buddhism devoid of superstition. Phra Bodhirak was born Mongkhon Rakphong in 1934 in northeastern Thailand...
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