Translation for 'Superstition' from English to Latin

superstition

superstitio {f}

• Friday the 13th is an unlucky day in western superstition.
• The Anti-Superstition and Black Magic Ordinance applies only in the comparatively well-off and well-educated province of Maharashtra.
• Nelson is a piece of cricket slang terminology and superstition.
• On the Isle of Man, "longtail" is a euphemism used to denote a rat, as a relatively modern superstition has arisen that it is considered bad luck to mention this word.
• Pinchbeck was also featured in the 2008 video "2012: Science or Superstition", a documentary describing how much of what we are hearing is science and how much is superstition.

• He has been accused of promoting superstition.
• "Superstition as Ideology in Iranian Politics: From Majlesi to Ahmadinejad" is a 2011 book by Ali Rahnema in which the author examines the role of superstition in Iranian politics.
• Baseball is a sport with a long history of superstition.
• In the Holy Poverty and Commandment I, the author illustrates his eagerness to overcome superstition and the dilemmas the Church faced to overcome a devotion to superstition.
• From early times the miners had viewed the pit with suspicion, and it was part folk lore, part fright, and part plain superstition, that many of the disasters had been attributed to the de’il (the devil) or his henchmen who lived at the bottom of the shaft in every pit.

• Superstition was the subject of one of Bacon's well-known Essays, and as Howard B White points out, Bacon made it clear that he considered Catholicism, for example, to be a form of Christian superstition, and that he felt atheism to be superior to superstition.
• There is a superstition that "a woman born in the year of the fire horse has a strong temperament and shortens her husband's life".
• In response to this note another contributor said that his daughter believed that the outcome would be a present, and that the word must be spoken up the chimney to be most effective; another pointed out that the word "rabbit" was often used in expletives, and suggested that the superstition may be a survival of the ancient belief in swearing as a means of avoiding evil.