As Europe basked in the Enlightenment, Popish superstition and its stablemate monarchical absolutism appeared to be receding into the past. |
Blood is spilled on the earth in old rites masked as simple superstition so as not to raise the ire of the Yahwist religious rulers of Samaria. |
We had been schooled to dismiss them as being objects of religion, ritual and superstition. |
He boldly advanced the truth that believers should live by the Word of God and jettison popish superstitions. |
As the immigrants became acculturated into the American society, these beliefs and superstitions were forgotten. |
These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism. |