No one is born superstitious—we learn to be superstitious from our parents, which is exactly what happened to me.
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Touching or knocking on wood is an old superstitious custom for good luck, and I'm a very superstitious guy—so that might have something to do with it.
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LONDON — Dominic Thiem will not admit to being superstitious.
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We all know that sports fans are a superstitious lot.
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There is nothing intentionally experimental or superstitious about the menu.
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Clubhouse antics have their rhythms: weird snacks, handshakes, superstitious ticks.
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She also believed that Asian gamblers were viewed as superstitious.
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"Religion was for the ignorant, weak, and superstitious," he wrote.
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Yale and Princeton have similar superstitious gates on their campuses.
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I feel like I am slightly superstitious about some things.
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Throughout, Michael Connelly's "methodical, traditional, superstitious" detective was an anchor.
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O. and I laugh about how superstitious I can be.
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Across social strata, Pakistani society is deeply conservative and superstitious.
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For the superstitious folks out there, 13 is an unlucky number.
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But I'm not superstitious because I m not afraid of it.
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I'm superstitious that I won't be able to keep doing it.
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Though often dismissed as superstitious piffle, ghosts have proved surprisingly durable.
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But they also tend to be incredibly superstitious about certain things.
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But Murray is — like many Cubs fans — feeling a little superstitious.
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VERY SUPERSTITIOUS I like to start watching from the executive box.
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I can still see the game, but I'm a bit superstitious.
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Desperate grooming has taken hold among the superstitious and soccer-mad.
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Mike Piazza called him the most superstitious player he'd ever seen.
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Are you superstitious, or do you find solace in scientific explanations?
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The spirits of the dead, she'd think, if she were superstitious.
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When I was her age, I simply thought he was superstitious.
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Do you think the people in your hometown are particularly superstitious?
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The need for clarity should overrule superstitious dread of the split infinitive.
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To Scare Off Evils SpiritsThe ancient Romans were a pretty superstitious bunch.
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I've always been superstitious…This has completely solidified my beliefs about ghosts.
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For the superstitious, Cleveland's latest loss reinforces the city's legacy of misfortune.
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He's also incredibly superstitious and sometimes doesn't leave the house all day.
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Gee is quoted: I used to be an awful superstitious little fool.
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I'm not really superstitious, but that fedora was absolutely, definitely, scientifically cursed.
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Sirleaf asked that the angels and Jesus be removed, superstitious workers refused.
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As often happens with the inexplicable, supernatural and superstitious reasoning rushed in.
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There was little difference between dangers visible and invisible, real and superstitious.
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If I hear something that sounds superstitious, I want eyewitnesses and evidence.
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She was also superstitious: she hated jinxing anything with her own expectations.
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The science behind superstition 1 in 4 Americans say they are superstitious.
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It's a great choice for pranking friends who may be a tad superstitious.
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"I'm very superstitious, but I wouldn't say that it's bad luck," she said.
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" Clinton admitted that she was superstitious, saying, "Hopefully I'll wake up on Nov.
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They called freedpeople who testified to their violence superstitious, ignorant, dishonest, and unreliable.
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Dallas receiver Amari Cooper welcomed the cat's appearance, though not for superstitious reasons.
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Those who know Simeone personally say that he is an insanely superstitious person.
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You know how superstitious baseball players can be ... so do it again tonight????
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Grandpappy, who has a superstitious side and his own seer, is suitably scared.
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LONDON — For the superstitious fan, black cats and sporting events don't really mix.
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"You have to remember that we're very superstitious people in Naples," he said.
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Mr. Trump, who is deeply superstitious, had not read the poem in months.
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Women, specifically, believed that Halloween posed a huge (albeit rather superstitious) matchmaking opportunity.
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There are only two things I am superstitious about: politics and college football.
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"For people who are superstitious, that first kiss actually means something," he said.
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So, if you are a triskaidekaphobe and superstitious, Friday the 13th can be terrifying.
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I hope they&aposre not superstitious, because that might not be a good sign.
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Here are a few that superstitious grandmothers everywhere can put in the win column.
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All of a sudden, we got stories about using eclipses against more superstitious people.
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"When you're superstitious and believe in all kinds of supernatural stuff," Wong tells Broadly.
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Touch wood Superstitious beliefs have been shown to help promote a positive mental attitude.
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BRODERICK I mean, I'm superstitious and I don't want to, you know … Knock wood.
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"My wife is superstitious enough for both of us," Kelce said with a laugh.
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The Muellers are set up as foils to Claire and Jamie: superstitious, bigoted, violent.
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Correct. The Super Bowl superstitious will note that the jersey choices favor the 49ers.
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It's no secret that runners are some of the most superstitious athletes out there.
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We meet Li-yan as a small, hungry child in a superstitious, dystopian world.
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She is a fiercely intelligent daydreamer at odds with her strict and superstitious father.
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The parallels were hardly lost on Martínez, a superstitious player throughout her long career.
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Jane Risen says there are both motivational, and cognitive reasons why people are superstitious.
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As the story goes, he went to the dinner despite a superstitious friend's warning.
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Many Thais are highly superstitious and some believe brightly colored clothes can attract good luck.
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It seems almost superstitious—like he's afraid of breaking something precious by getting too close.
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When it comes to her pre-game playlist, Naomi Osaka is superstitious about her music.
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"I have become superstitious and will only drink Bud Light during Eagles games," he said.
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He said Trump was "kind of superstitious" and didn't want to get ahead of himself.
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Meanwhile, superstitious Thais have taken to placing small zebra figurines at the sites of accidents.
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The Republican debates are just unhinged, superstitious, vengeful bullies having at it with each other.
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"It's a very hard work for me to bring forward because I'm superstitious," she said.
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They date, and, despite her superstitious belief that she harbors "something evil," they eventually wed.
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I am not a superstitious man but, I dunno, this seems bad for the Islanders.
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"You know how superstitious baseball players are," said T. J. McFarland, a Diamondbacks left-hander.
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If you're superstitious, chill out ... doesn't look like A-Rod saw her in the gown.
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But you can see how people become superstitious, trying to make sense out of chaos.
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"People in Dumbarton are very superstitious," Alastair Dutton, a Dumbarton resident told The New York Times.
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There's no word yet on when tickets will become available to prospective — and un-superstitious — seafarers.
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Looking back, we were superstitious, paranoid Chinese suburbanites who were trying our best to fit in.
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They decide she is bad luck, a bad omen for the superstitious fishermen who found her.
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The reason, we found, isn't a superstitious worry that such a bet will jinx the outcome.
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Had I been superstitious, I would have thought that she had put a spell on me.
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But despite the happy news, Guthrie says she was still "superstitious" about having baby No. 2.
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"We do not support this superstitious practice," said G. Mohanty, a media adviser at the commission.
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"He's a little superstitious," said Lara Trump, who is married to Donald Trump's son Eric Trump.
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The Anonymous NFL Front Office Guy inhabits a workplace that is secretive and superstitious and strange.
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But Justin's brother and I have a little superstitious routine: we eat popcorn to get hits.
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This scientific precision diminishes the sense of superstitious fear and awe that accompanied such past events.
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I'm not superstitious, but I recognize fate (or the illusion of fate?) when I see it.
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Because of the marathon season, baseball players are often highly regimented in addition to being superstitious.
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If athletes, actors and gamblers are the most superstitious among us, my father hit the trifecta.
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Whether you are superstitious or not, you can't escape the chatter circling the spookiest calendar date.
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His followers are a superstitious patriarchy that oppresses women and suppresses knowledge, and their influence is growing.
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FROM PEOPLETV: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It"
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The house founder was said to be highly superstitious and had his cards read before every show.
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FROM PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It"
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" Before the election, Klem recalls, "Ivanka was very almost like superstitious about talking about [who would win].
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He had also played golf, which is banned for party members, and "took part in superstitious activities".
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He would later learn that everywhere fonio was grown, it was shrouded in myths and superstitious beliefs.
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Then there is Jamie evoking the La Dame Blanche rumor to strike fear into Lovat's superstitious heart.
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A source close to Williams told Page Six that William's coach was "superstitious" about Markle attending matches.
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This level of belief meant that differentiating between superstitious magic and "legitimate" church practice was very tricky.
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I tend to be a little weird and superstitious, so I use tarot cards before making offers.
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Four out of five professional athletes report engaging with at least one superstitious behavior prior to performance.
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Related: How technology could combat the rising tide of fake science Famous sportspeople often display superstitious behaviours.
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"I've always been very superstitious and said 'touch wood' when things are going well," Ms. Ducas said.
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If people start saying he has gone mad they will claim it is because of something superstitious.
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She is that rare Chinese elder who isn't superstitious about mentioning or planning for her own death.
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Mildly superstitious Mark Twain was allegedly once invited to be the 13th guest at a dinner party.
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Horschel described his gum chewing as "kind of a superstitious thing" but said it served a purpose.
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I'm from a tribe of sorts, made up of runners who are very superstitious about their sneakers.
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"I'm not usually superstitious, but I definitely think Henley was a gift from her big brother," Otis revealed.
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"I'm not usually superstitious, but I definitely think Henley was a gift from her big brother," shared Otis.
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Superstitious onlookers might have thought that the Belgian and the Algerian had swapped bodies—a footballing "Freaky Friday".
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It's really just whatever you feel comfortable with and whatever works for you and whatever you're superstitious with.
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I'm not the most superstitious person, but I thought it was be fun to do some ghost hunting.
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Baseball players are notoriously superstitious, and this trait seems to have infected the culture of scouting a little.
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In fact, that a ritual should seem irrational or superstitious to outsiders is part of what defines it.
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What if that history had involved painting whole religions as extremist, or as naively superstitious, or as terroristic?
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But, if Peter's contestants are superstitious at all, they probably shouldn't be vying for that statistically cursed flower.
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His ghost, therefore, was reckoned by the superstitious staff at the building to roam the corridors at night.
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Women told the stories, superstitious, chill-inducing, full of myth and colour, that preserved links with dead generations.
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Where some see the cross as superstitious foolery or a stumbling block, others see grace and sublime love.
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Satan is celebrated as the symbolic opposition to organized religion, which they see as an authoritarian, superstitious system.
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You have to work just as intensely to change your script about it if you are really superstitious.
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Dior was a superstitious man, and he never began designing a couture show without consulting his tarot card reader.
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"I'm not usually superstitious, but I definitely think Henley was a gift from her big brother," says Otis, 31.
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The challenge appeared to be a way of countering the criticism by impressing the many Cambodians who are superstitious.
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And some of that is because people are superstitious or that's how they feel they're going to be stronger.
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Dior was superstitious - his lucky star is on display - and Chiuri has paid homage to that in her creations.
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Locals can be hostile and superstitious – believing outsiders spell danger - and drive out newcomers with fear tactics or worse.
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Prayer, as any one knows who practices their faith sincerely, is not a superstitious talisman against suffering and death.
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As strange, curious humans we're always looking for patterns, leaving us prone to believe a lot of superstitious nonsense.
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It's tempting to write the widespread therapeutic use of ants off as an oddly recurrent bit of superstitious crap.
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Superstitious people are often dismissed as irrational, stunted thinkers — mental children who never outgrow a scrambled understanding of causality.
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Some people maybe begrudged the fact that he didn't go, but he was really superstitious and panicked by it.
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Other players, Wooden said, are superstitious and believe that if they register, they are bound to develop an illness.
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A "Worry for the superstitious" is a BLACK CAT, but how to cram that into a four-letter slot?
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Despite his known seven-figure gambling habits, Mayweather is too superstitious to invest in his own fight, ESPN reported.
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Superstitious football fans may need more than a lucky jersey to help their team win the big game this Sunday.
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The sensation of finding Superstitious was not unlike the feeling of coming across scrambled porn on an obscure cable channel.
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Some superstitious Japanese people believe that the most unlucky age for a woman is 33, and 42 for a man.
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Ultimately, despite her respect for him, Weldon perceived Sitting Bull's faith in Ghost Dance to be superstitious and somewhat backwards.
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Asking around, I quickly get confirmation that even those too cynical for horoscopes (typical Capricorns) still get superstitious about clothes.
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Leo is a strong, brave sign, so I'm sure most people will be able to overcome their superstitious fears today.
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A source close to Williams told Page Six that her coach had been "superstitious" surrounding Markle's appearances at her matches.
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Campbell had been a superstitious man who was afraid of the color green and played solitaire to pass the time.
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Superstitious sports fans have a conspiracy theory accusing the Kardashian women of cursing the team of the athletes they've dated.
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Equal parts schadenfreude and inadequacy, with a seasoning of guilt and superstitious panic — that's the world according to Rosalind Chast.
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Meanwhile, the lyrics see humanity from afar and it's not pretty: biologically predetermined, deeply superstitious and greedily self-destructive. 1.
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You'd think the new owners were superstitious about the house, since the previous owners both landed in the big house.
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I'm not a superstitious person, but I'm certainly not going to say we have all the runway that we want.
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For the superstitious on Wall Street, today is Friday the 13th and historically such days have been weaker than typical Fridays.
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Superstitious had a hard spine, rather than the flimsy paperback of a child's horror novel, which to me meant Serious Literature.
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"You know, I am a little superstitious about that," Clinton said this weekend, speaking to reporters between campaign stops in Pennsylvania.
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We wouldn't necessarily call ourselves superstitious, but we're definitely not ones to turn our backs on a good-luck charm, either.
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Usually it has been room 13 or the entire 13th floor that have been omitted by hoteliers to soothe superstitious travellers.
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Patricia Clarkson took home her first Golden Globe on Sunday night, and it could all be thanks to her superstitious tendencies.
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And although devoutly religious monotheists condemn amulets as superstitious and therefore sinful, talismans remain extremely common in homes of every faith.
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The hex has taken root in the imaginations of superstitious sports fans since Lil B made it public five years ago.
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But the government also tried to suppress wuxia, a martial arts genre of literature and film, as superstitious and potentially subversive.
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"I generally am not superstitious, but I have this weird feeling that the bison there really don't like me," he said.
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An albino with pale skin and hair, Sunny is treated as an outcast by superstitious locals who call her a witch.
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At Salem's Witch Museum, the narrator tells us — with more than a little derision — that the Puritans were a superstitious people.
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I was really surprised that he was as superstitious as he was — that he didn't attend funerals, even of his friends.
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"Especially in the Highlands, Scots were superstitious," said Kari Moodie, the curator of collections at the Inverness Museum and Art Gallery.
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My superstitious bones quake a little when I put up a video of anyone I love these days, but she's amazing.
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In public, Democratic members say they are entirely focused on the midterms, and many get superstitious talking about anything beyond November.
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Were you superstitious about the so-called Curse of the Ninth, the myth that composers die after writing their Ninth Symphonies?
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"When people think about their superstitious intuitions, they are likely to automatically retrieve examples from memory that support them," Risen writes.
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Sure, you could chalk Joshua's loss up to the fact that Ruiz simply fought better, but sports fans are a superstitious bunch.
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It's a mystery that has plagued the superstitious town of Dumbarton, Scotland, since the 1950s: why do dogs jump from Overtoun Bridge?
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Everyone knows baseball players are among the most superstitious people in the world ... so see ya back at the stadium next year???
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The superstitious observances of public or private rites were carelessly practised, from education and habit, by the followers of the established religion.
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She lives with her superstitious single mother and ladies' man brother Diego, an artist who teaches Karen an appreciation for fine art.
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Indeed 55% of voters who scored positively on our conspiracism index favoured Mr Trump, compared with 44% of their less superstitious peers.
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For my own selfish, superstitious reasons, I've made an executive decision about his astrological identity: He is a Cancer, plain and simple.
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"I'm not superstitious, not saying my not being there is why she got hurt, but maybe it was something subconscious," Eileen said.
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Some superstitious players avoid that contest because no one who has won it has also won the Masters in the same year.
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It is a well-established fact that people who experience social exclusion have a tendency to slide toward superstitious and conspiratorial thinking.
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She endows her Isabelle with a superstitious peasant woman's trepidation in the face of the unknown and a mother's doubts-vanquishing protectiveness.
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Schizophrenia, for example, is often understood in superstitious terms—and is thought to be a result of spirit possession, or a curse.
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We were all scientists, so none of us were superstitious, exactly, but Gem never liked to hear talk of things going wrong.
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Ameen's "Scales", which screened out of competition, focuses on a young girl surviving against superstitious villagers who believe she is a curse.
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Ameen's "Scales", which screened out of competition, focuses on a young girl surviving against superstitious villagers who believe she is a curse.
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As baseball players we are a little superstitious, so we kept going there every start day and I kept ordering that burger.
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You can say that's a superstitious idea, but it's also a subtle and durable one that the present century hasn't yet abolished.
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In any event, Trump's people say he will keep the party small because he is "superstitious" and doesn't want to jinx things.
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LoRiggio believes that is because dice control rejuvenated an interest in craps, and superstitious players insist on setting dice if they'll play all.
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Outsiders often explain this violence away, when they try to explain it at all, by suggesting Malawi or Mozambique are just superstitious places.
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Superstitious or not, the last thing he needs is for the whole thing to fizzle because he removed God from the Serenity Prayer.
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If they're at all superstitious this will be the last few hours Harry and Meghan will see each other before the big day.
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But she is counting on the superstitious nature of others to protect the slum community she helped to establish all those years ago.
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It has been a stunning resurgence for a practice that was rejected as superstitious after the fall of the Qing dynasty in 1911.
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So if you're writing a vampire novel, making a hyper-realistic vampire movie, or just superstitious, take note and budget your time accordingly.
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FROM PEN: Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy — 'I Didn't Want to Jinx It' "Okay, here's your uterus," says the doctor.
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Namely, they thought people might want to know about murders, alleged hauntings, nearby gravesites, and other potential issues for the frightened and superstitious.
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Twitter user lucyinglis stated that they were kept in chimneys for superstitious and pagan purposes, although I wasn't able to confirm this elsewhere.
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As is said to be the case with many Russian Jews, not just the ones in my family, my dad is very superstitious.
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In addition to these tribulations, Oswald is troubled by the superstitious beliefs that keep the population of Somershill mired in the dark ages.
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He was also superstitious, and during his campaign he had deflected discussions about post-election staffing, fearing that it would bring bad luck.
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Islamic authority also was unable to stanch superstitious beliefs, as objects in a section called "Astrology, Magic and the World of Beasts" reveal.
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They insisted the more superstitious and scary aspects of the holiday be replaced with more wholesome traditions in order to curb the crime.
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"He was very proud with how we advanced the ANWR bill thus far, although he, too, is superstitious," Murkowski said of her father.
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Superstitious belief is a quirk of our humanity that carries an enduring fascination, and news outlets are always hungry for an interesting story.
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Narendra Dabholkar, whose campaigns against superstitious practices angered many Hindu religious activists, was shot to death near his home in Pune in 2013.
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I became wildly superstitious (I had to touch both sides of the airplane's door before boarding if I didn't want it to crash).
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The outlandishness of anti-Semitism is emphasized — the idea that Jews have horns, for instance — to the exclusion of its less superstitious manifestations.
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As a senior official of the Communist Party, Lai had lost his belief in communism and had practiced "superstitious activities", the CCDI said.
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It's part cure but also part superstitious ritual — a soothing set of tiny actions that makes the ground beneath me feel solid again.
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In the case of the Cubs, a superstitious person might think: The one time I don't wear my Cubs shirt, they'll absolutely lose.
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In case you haven't already been anticipating it, tomorrow is Friday the 13th, a day meant to inspire superstitious dread in the public imagination.
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Ironically, this happens after Jo claims to not be superstitious about seeing her groom before walking down the aisle and therefore summoning bad luck.
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In the movie, Farrow's character famously gives birth to the anti-Christ, making some superstitious fans try out some wicked punchlines on social media.
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Wang, 52, also engaged in "superstitious activities", "exchanged power for sex", and was "morally bankrupt", the agency said in a statement on its website.
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Dr. Tawde had known Dr. Dabholkar for years and had clashed with him over his campaigns against superstitious practices, according to the victim's son.
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"He says he's not a superstitious guy, but the San Francisco native also admits: "I've always believed in the power of signs and omens.
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And I feel like every culture has their own superstitious way of doing this, whether it's fireworks or gargoyles in front of a cathedral.
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After the alleged murders in one apartment, many superstitious Chinese began moving out of the luxury building—obviously affecting its demand as a whole.
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There's no evidence traders are superstitious about Friday the 13th, and there's no reason they should be, because returns on that day are perfectly normal.
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Submergence premieres in the U.S. on Friday, April 13, so if you're superstitious, you might want to cross your fingers extra tight for this couple.
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" When she welcomed Henley in 2017, Otis told PEOPLE, "I'm not usually superstitious, but I definitely think Henley was a gift from her big brother.
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The only problem is that he believes it was the "woman in white," a Grimm Brothers-esque characters drawn directly from the town's superstitious past.
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That competition was for the hearts and minds of a population that was pious, superstitious and easily persuaded of the need to stamp out evil.
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There is a push-me-pull-me dynamic in which we want to read the eerie message but, for superstitious reasons, we might rather not.
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Those who are superstitious blame that move as the origin of the "Curse of the Bambino" – Boston's 43-year drought without a World Series title.
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Roux explained that orange blossom is the traditional scent of weddings and symbolizes happiness in marriage, and as someone who is painfully superstitious, I confirmed.
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I'm not a superstitious person but even if that was a free flight to the magical world of Narnia I would have to skip it.
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He was compulsively superstitious; twice on other plane trips I had seen him toss a few granules of salt over his left shoulder after eating.
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Superstitious rituals and lucky charms give us a comforting sense of control over the unexpected when there is nothing more practical that can be done.
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His parents had broken off ties with their relatives who lived on the Mainland, who in turn pitied the Islanders as uneducated, superstitious, and impoverished.
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If you're superstitious already, you'll be pleased—or, more likely, pretty terrified—to know that this Friday the 214th is about to be extra spooky.
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"I also wanted to use black folklore, the magic and superstitious part of it," Morrison told the New York Times of the book in 1977.
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The cat was given the name Rally Cat, and in the superstitious ways of baseball received an inordinate share of the credit for the blast.
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A conservative and superstitious militia called the Yihetuan — known as "Boxers" in English because members practiced martial arts — was killing Christian missionaries and Chinese Christians.
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Her husband is superstitious about these things— if the show gets an order for nine more episodes, maybe they can finally tackle the back yard.
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" After welcoming her daughter in 2017, Otis exclusively told PEOPLE, "I'm not usually superstitious, but I definitely think Henley was a gift from her big brother.
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But Tituba, knowing her identity already made her a guilty suspect, instead gave the superstitious pilgrims a masterfully believable confession tailored to resonate with Puritan doctrine.
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After welcoming her daughter in 2017, Otis exclusively told PEOPLE, "I'm not usually superstitious, but I definitely think Henley was a gift from her big brother."
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Today is Friday the 13th, which means there might be a few of you out there who are way too superstitious to even set foot outside.
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Another 2018 study out of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University found that people take more risks when they engage in a superstitious act.
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After years of failed attempts, Murkowski, who described herself as superstitious, remained cautious in the final hours leading up to the Senate vote late Tuesday night.
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Dallas Cowboys fan and stand-up comedian Jordan Garnett did what no superstitious sports fan should ever do — get a tattoo prematurely celebrating your team's championship.
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I'm not somebody who likes talking about like the business side of it, but in terms of actually like habits, like superstitious habits, I don't know.
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A conservative and superstitious militia called the Yihetuan — known as "Boxers" in English because its members practiced martial arts — was killing Christian missionaries and Chinese Christians.
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Anglers are superstitious, so when I saw Emir pull up to the dock the following morning, I all but jumped in his boat and hugged him.
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" He insisted that rebellions were caused not by the slaves' mistreatment but simply by their nature: "brutish, ignorant, idle, crafty, treacherous, bloody, thievish, mistrustful, and superstitious.
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"I'm not normally superstitious but from the moment I scored against Sunderland on the opening day, I didn't want to change anything," Vardy said in his autobiography.
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"I'm not superstitious but it does remind me of all the different people I've met along the way and how much they've invested in me," he explained.
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It's hard to explain why, but the superstitious and religious nature of Latinx culture means we are simultaneously frightened and fascinated by the paranormal, real or not.
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Colonial discourse that praised Burmese Buddhists for their tolerance functioned in part to condemn the "superstitious" and "backward" practices of caste Hindus and Muslims in colonial Myanmar.
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The prophetic nature of some of the song lyrics are not lost on Cave, nor on his wife, who is superstitious about their sons as it is.
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But after last November's World Series triumph, which ended 108 years of confounding misery, anything superstitious no longer applies, at least when it comes to the Cubs.
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One of my colleagues asked me if I was superstitious, if maybe I worried whether my food wouldn't turn out when I was not wearing the apron.
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Like many villagers throughout the world, they are superstitious, believing in ghosts and gossip, and distrustful of outsiders, which include the people living in a neighboring village.
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Superstitious Thais have been gripped by a legend about the cave - the full name of which is Tham Luang Nang Non or "cave of the reclining lady".
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Uneducated about mental illness and extremely superstitious, her parents took her to a religious (also known as faith or traditional) healer to perform an exorcism on her.
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Houdini was carrying out a war against spiritualists and these superstitious table-knocker people who were trying to raise spirits, and Lovecraft also despised that kind of stuff.
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You know if you saw a black cat go across your path you would think, if you were superstitious, you are going to have a little bad luck.
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The dogs are said to be beaten, burned, boiled or skinned alive – under a draconian, superstitious guise that the fear and torture improves the taste of the meat.
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If you're superstitious about the awfulness of 423 (see Bowie, Prince, Cohen and Trump), one Australian state's end-of-days weather over the weekend will only seem appropriate.
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Houston is now down 0-2 in the series and if you know how superstitious baseball players are ... Biles might never get asked back to throw another pitch!!!
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FROM PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" She later conceived Blue Ivy, who was born in January 2012.
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GIPHY Today is Friday the 13th, a day when the most superstitious among us will avoid ladders, making eye contact with cats, and having dreams, at all costs.
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Fun fact: it's not an FAA rule, but more a superstitious practice that the captain and first officer eat different meals while on duty to avoid possible poisoning.
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Good news if you're superstitious, ready to head to the altar, and a bad cook: You no longer need to whip up engagement chicken to earn your ring.
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I feel like whatever this is, it's definitely a heavily jinxing conversation so the superstitious person in me doesn't really like this line of questioning, if I'm honest.
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Ballplayers are notoriously superstitious, so it's highly doubtful the defending world champion Royals were complaining that they were attacked by bees for the second year in a row.
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For many people, engaging with superstitious behaviors provides a sense of control and reduces anxiety -- which is why levels of superstition increase at times of stress and angst.
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Guess which day his mom wants him to revisit the store, to prove that he's not superstitious or easily cowed by the bullies she believes left the note?
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We realize that after the preface it becomes the Middle Ages that Greenblatt presents as gripped with anxiety about death, living in obsessive fear, an ignorant, superstitious fear.
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"I've always been a nocturnal person," Ms. Palitz said, sipping her Manhattan, the only drink she has ordered for months in a superstitious effort to secure the job.
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In speeches, Mr. Hun Sen has noted that he and Kan were both born in the Year of the Dragon, a symbolically potent coincidence in a superstitious country.
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Many superstitious rooters might argue the chambers had something to do with that, right alongside the home run derby that Judge won during this year's All-Star festivities.
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To account for that extra quarter day, one full day is added in February to the calendar every four years (with an exception about once a century). Superstitious?
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The theory outlines two main channels, or "systems," in which we think, and how the two of them interact can explain how superstitious thoughts originate and stick around.
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Though McBride, who is releasing her 13th studio album (and no, she's not superstitious) this spring, admits she still likes to feel a little reckless from time to time.
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Routines are very important to the superstitious, and the order in which I put on my makeup each morning is one of the things that holds my life together.
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The statement also said Xiang was suspected of bribery and accused him of "engaging in superstitious activities", an allegation often levelled at discredited officials to further tarnish their names.
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A visualisation of how the statue would look like has circulated on Facebook "People say I'm a pagan, superstitious hillbilly [because of my idea]," Kartius told the Jakarta Post.
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"I'm glad I'm not superstitious," Thompson told CTV, which makes sense: Seeing a black cat on a plane would probably send anyone with a fear of flying into conniptions.
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It is what it is, but some tankers and artillerymen may see it as bad luck to not give their baby a name and troops can be particularly superstitious.
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The Angels rallied to take the game and won the Series a day later — a comeback that has made me obsessively superstitious about calling anyone during a big game.
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Even if you're not totally superstitious, the eerie day calls for cozying up in the safety of your home, lighting a candle, and going in on some comfort food.
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Palace lost last season's final against Manchester United, but even if it had won Read said he might not have opted for triangular flags anyway; he is rather superstitious.
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The child dolls, also called "angel child" dolls, are becoming more popular across the superstitious country, especially after a Thai celebrity claimed his look thep "son" brought him jobs.
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Even if you did try to intervene and make some order, the people are all so superstitious, it would take a hundred years, with all their spells and blessings.
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However, magic — the superstitious belief in the efficacy of rituals and astrology, along with the measures taken to avoid pollution from contact with lower castes — is stupid, destructive, cruel.
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Those who are superstitious were validated as the Blues lost Game 6 by a 5-1 score and will need to win Game 7 on the road Wednesday night.
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"I'm not superstitious in any way really but crazy things can always happen, I believe," he told reporters at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez when asked whether he believed in miracles.
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"So we wrapped and I threw some blue in my hair, then I got superstitious that I was manifesting a boy, when I kind of prefer a girl," he continued.
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Needless to say, this unique blend of macho competition and superstitious overpaying leads to all kinds of piscine drama, which is exactly what happened earlier this week at Tsukiji market.
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Maharashtra, home to several social reformers including B.R. Ambedkar who fought against caste discrimination, in 2013 passed legislation criminalizing practices related to black magic, human sacrifices, and other superstitious beliefs.
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Chinese moviegoers might not get to see it at all, though, because the country's government-run censor board doesn't "approve of films that promote cults or superstitious beliefs," Variety reports.
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My dad, a Navy veteran and the most superstitious person I know, would throw salt over his shoulder to reverse bad luck, occasionally hitting a Denny's waiter in the face.
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But athletes are notoriously superstitious, and with the Broncos opting not to wear orange, it shows their own Super Bowl history is in their head more than this one game.
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You'll also see tons of bells, which he bought on eBay and at flea markets, like this heap on the floor that have rabbit's feet on them — he being superstitious.
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Sports fans are known for their superstitious nature, so Grubhub did some digging to help Patriots and Eagles fans figure out what to eat during the big game on Sunday.
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We should require evidence and good reasoning, and we should not write off other religions as 'superstitious' and then fail to question our more familiar Jewish or Christian faith tradition.
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Even when he began to reject Wilson's vision of internationalism, Lodge protested that he had no "superstitious regard" for George Washington's and Thomas Jefferson's bans on permanent and entangling alliances.
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Airline ticket prices tend to dip, your superstitious boss avoids important meetings and the whole day, there's a small part of you that's just waiting for something weird to happen.
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To celebrate October's superstitious Friday the 13th, Urban Outfitters is offering 13 percent off of your entire purchase and we're already filling our carts with spooktacular goodies from their Halloween Shop.
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" FROM PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" She also added, "I'm not cavalier about who I would have a kid with.
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Wang, 64, had violated disciplinary regulations by frequenting "private clubs", the statement said, adding that he had also been involved in "superstitious activities" over a prolonged period of time, without elaborating.
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A superstitious or thinner-skinned leader may have seen this moment as an omen, but this particular CEO, who says she doesn't believe in backup plans, took the glitch in stride.
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A flight out of Shanghai to Guangzhou, China, was delayed for several hours after a superstitious passenger decided to throw a bunch of coins at the plane's engine, reports the AFP.
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Her career took off with "Sh'chur" ("White Magic"), in which she played the older sister in an immigrant Moroccan family bound to a superstitious form of religion that included white magic.
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It took me seven years to put a nail in my dressing room wall and hang a picture, because I was so superstitious about not having a job the next day.
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Any superstitious reservations they might have had about the "thunderstone" or "firestone" as some took to calling it, did not prevent them from breaking off pieces to take home as souvenirs.
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They had helped her pick out tiny outfits and baby gear, but she was too superstitious to take them home, so they formed a small mountain in a sponsor's living room.
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That, anyway, was an unmistakable takeaway from a show mounted by Benjamin Huseby and Serhat Isik of the Berlin label GmbH and built around the concept of superstitious and protective gestures.
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The decision by the Beijing court reflected a broader effort by President Xi Jinping to more strictly control independent media and to stop the spread of misinformation and "superstitious" viewpoints online.
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You might think Maddon would be superstitious, and would do everything possible to preserve what worked in 255, when the Cubs won their first World Series in more than a century.
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With no biological parents to speak of, Aloy is branded an outcast from the time she's a infant, forced to live outside and apart from a superstitious tribe with her adopted father.
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Like a lot of footballers I was very superstitious, and before every game I would light a candle and hold a magical stone that a friend had brought me back from Israel.
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From PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" Of course, with baby prepping comes name brainstorming — but it still seems to be early.
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In which case it would be wise for other fighters, a notoriously superstitious bunch, to steer clear of Nurmagomedov for fear of damaging their own knees, ribs, and lungs and careers, right?
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It is an extended Colombian family of about 6,000 people whose members have been plagued with dementia for centuries, a condition they called "La Bobera" — "the foolishness" — and attributed to superstitious causes.
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One reason elderly Asian women might be targeted in this scheme is lack of education which can lead to being superstitious, says Lani Wong, chair of the National Association of Chinese Americans.
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My fifth-grade class took a trip to the local public library, where I checked out a copy of Superstitious, the young adult author R. L. Stine's first horror novel for... old adults.
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The superstitious Parra, 32, who signed with the Nationals in May following 30 games with the San Francisco Giants, told NBC Sports his 323-year-old daughter Aaliyah "loves" the "Baby Shark" song.
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As it turns out, the rhyming phrase originated from the superstitious Victorian times, where the presence of all four things is believed to bring good fortune to the bride on her big day.
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Dr. Tawde, who had known the victim for years, had passionately opposed his campaigns against superstitious practices, Hamid Dabholkar, the son of the slain man, said at the time of Dr. Tawde's arrest.
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The night we opened at the Sixty-Third Street Music Hall, New York, I did something that even the least superstitious of persons has a sneaking little belief in — I broke a mirror.
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In his efforts to address the country's spiritual shortcomings, Mr. Xi has spoken favorably of Confucius, praised Buddhism and presided over a revival of traditional religious practices that were once condemned as superstitious.
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Home Wi-Fi speeds can be difficult to understand at the best of times, but as I've been testing Three UK's new 5G home broadband package this week, I've been getting especially superstitious.
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The actor draws from his upbringing in a superstitious Mexican household in this new passion project, crisscrossing the United States in search of unusual beliefs and rituals that some communities still hold dear.
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" According to him, "the world Satan has no inherent value... Our very presence as civic-minded socially responsible Satanists serves to satirize the ludicrous superstitious fears that the word Satan tends to evoke.
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With ugly, exaggerated features, and wearing tattered clothes, these "minstrels" made fun of enslaved Africans as superstitious, hypersexual and cowardly, according to the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington.
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Now call me crazy, but I also love my dictionary app's Word of the Day feature, and have developed a near superstitious curiosity to view which new new word will kick off my morning.
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Nieto, whose sons Pablo and Angel Jr were also racers, won 13 world titles in a career lasting from 1964 to 1986, but for superstitious reasons refers to his total as '12 plus one'.
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Alongside a photograph of the lovebirds standing behind the opened umbrella, Carr acknowledged that while some might not think getting engaged on Friday the 13th is a wise decision, he's not a superstitious man.
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Whether or not you believe the fatalism lurking behind its verses could have caused superstitious harm to his career, several of the decisions he made in the subsequent years assuredly diminished his selling power.
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Referring to founding designer Christian Dior, who the brand said was "a superstitious man with absolute faith in his lucky star", the collection was full of symbols and lucky charms on clothes or necklaces.
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Elbaz, for 14 years at the creative helm of Lanvin, France's oldest fashion brand, on Monday announced he had created a perfume called Superstitious for the French perfume house Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle.
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" Other commentators joked that the cat a bad sign for anyone who is superstitious and as the cat ran around the state troopers, they said through laughter "Whose got cat corralling skills in them?
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I'm very superstitious, so when my original desk from 23 years ago wouldn't fit through the door, I had the designer cut it up and use bits and pieces in a new, modern desk.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Two Chinese officials have been sacked for involvement in "superstitious activities", including casting spells to aid promotions and attending geomancy courses under the guise of business trips, state media said on Friday.
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"I'm not superstitious," Masini said, a good thing since he was born in 1969, the year the Cubs famously collapsed and were passed by the Mets in the second half of the regular season.
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SAMARA, Russia — There are no curses, Mexico Coach Juan Carlos Osorio had insisted, no reasons to be superstitious about the team's apparent inability, one World Cup after another, to advance to the quarterfinal round.
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From there, he expanded to amulet writing, a superstitious healing practice in which papers inscribed with religious phrases are enclosed in jewelry and worn around a person's neck or arm to cure their problems.
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"Because Stalin's primary means of interacting with the physical world was through paper, it is not surprising that he continued to demonstrate a superstitious awe for the power of the written word," Kalder observes.
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It never did, because luck is an illusion; it's like saying the sports team that wins the World Series/Super Bowl/NBA Playoffs had the most fans doing superstitious rituals before the big game.
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Those who had an idea about Islam held perceptions that were deeply skewed by Orientalist notions where the Muslim "East" was backward, poor, and superstitious, whereas the European "West" was modern, rational, industrial, and advanced.
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Even though it is understandable that such an exercise would be done at a stadium that had never hosted a World Series game before, superstitious fans have interpreted the practice as some sort of jinx.
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Bex said the defendant would argue FGM was predominantly perpetrated by female cutters out of superstitious beliefs and that it was done to preserve a girl's chastity or ensure social acceptance - not as a punishment.
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FROM PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" The No. 1 tennis star in the world accidentally shared that she was expecting on Snapchat in April.
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Everybody seems backward and superstitious; the food tastes of peat; the nun she meets in the inn creeps her out; the "infamous diet of potatoes and little else" has made the inhabitants sickly and pale.
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"Our preliminary investigations have established that these incidents are caused by superstitious beliefs," Kangi Lugola told parliament, replying to a lawmaker who had demanded to know what the government was doing to stop the killings.
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Traditional Catholicism is sometimes considered superstitious for the stress it places on formal devotions like the Rosary and meatless Fridays, but such practices are what have made the faith appealing to all nations and classes.
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Members of the ruling Communist Party are not supposed to follow any religion in officially atheist China, and the government takes a particularly harsh line on officials who practise what it deems are superstitious folk beliefs.
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"I do think fashion people are naturally superstitious and definitely very spiritual, much more so than any other industry," Kristin Knox, author of Alexander McQueen: Genius of a Generation, told the New York Post in 2011.
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It was easy to crack down on metalheads because they look so different, and because there's an environment where people are still highly superstitious, where they still believe in miracles and still believe in demonic possession.
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Poor Penn, known among Kansas City Chiefs fans as "Bad Luck Chuck," has been unofficially banned from future Chiefs games by superstitious fans -- and star quarterback Patrick Mahomes -- who worry his presence could forebode a loss.
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As a child, I was surrounded by superstitious warnings: If I sat at the corner of the table, my mother would shout at me to move, since this was a sign I would never get married.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party has expelled a former party boss of northwestern Gansu province, the country's anti-graft agency said on Friday, after an investigation showed he received bribes and was involved in "superstitious activities".
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I was just talking about what seemed to me the obvious opposition between common sense and intellectual honesty and scientific rigor and the reams of superstitious bullshit that people believe in the context of organized religion. Right.
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Gaiman, who is British, portrays the old-world gods as towering yet ultimately tragic heroes, dying out because their believers—from whom they've demanded sacrifices and superstitious rituals for centuries—no longer remember or care about them.
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China guarantees freedom of religion for major belief systems such as Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, but party members are meant to be atheists and are barred from what it calls superstitious practices, such as visits to soothsayers.
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Even if you don't consider yourself a particularly superstitious person, you probably say "bless you" when someone sneezes, just in case the devil should decide to steal their soul -- as our ancestors thought possible during a sneeze.
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Superstition also explains why many buildings do not have a 13th floor -- preferring to label it 14, 14A 6663B or M (the 13th letter of the alphabet) on elevator button panels because of concerns about superstitious tenants.
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The superstitious peasants, largely played by local people, live with their animals and a host of unseen presences — skittish angels, the mischievous spirits of unbaptized infants and Mussolini, the godlike figure who addresses them on the radio.
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But bothered by what he felt were the many historical inaccuracies and superstitious fantasies found in the classical epics, Mr. Shan, who had studied history, soon began performing his own interpretations based on his meticulous historical research.
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Under the centuries-old "chhaupadi" system, superstitious families fearing misfortune send menstruating women and girls - seen as impure - away to animal sheds or huts and bar them from touching items such as religious idols, milk and cattle.
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In case you're wondering about the word's etymology (its origin and history -- don't say you didn't learn anything here today!), it originally came from the French language and meant a "superstitious religious hypocrite" in the 16th century. 8.
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Posted by Anwar Muhamad Saleh on Monday, February 22, 2016 While there's no word on whether LTA would revise the bus service number to appease superstitious folks, we aren't averse to this kind of hell breaking loose online.
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"I'm a superstitious person and I've always loved dressing up," she said, after exchanging handwritten vows with Mr. Peguero and handing off her bouquet of fall-colored mums to her sister and maid of honor, Kelisey Paige Deleski.
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One, Zhang Yue, who was responsible for law and order in northern Hebei Province, had engaged in "superstitious activities," banqueted on the public dime, done favors in return for sex and engaged in general "hedonism," the agency said.
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"Serena asked her coach about Meghan coming when she won last night and everyone is worried, as tennis players are very superstitious, and Serena lost when Meghan came to watch her at Wimbledon," the source said on Friday.
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It said he had interfered in the judiciary process, used his position to benefit others, including family members, accepted vacations and golf games, violated rules barring party cadres from private clubs and followed superstitious beliefs, among other transgressions.
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You don't want to be labeled a "distraction" by the media, and then become one in a superstitious, cliquey clubhouse as a rookie who is a new actor in a championship run that is years in the making.
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One of the weapons thatLincoln has is a "Screaming Zemi," which is a voodoo doll that you use to distract enemies in the game, because they are superstitious enough to believe that it has some real magical power.
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Both sides of the current civil war between the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and the Libya National Army (LNA) under commander Khalifa Haftar are allied with groups that view Sufi practice as superstitious, she noted.
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She was also superstitious, putting her customers' business in the freezer to "cool it off," and assiduously avoiding anyone or anything she deemed unlucky; aside from one Dinah Washington song, she couldn't bear to listen to the blues.
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His mom, superstitious like all good baseball folks are, said she watched Game 4 at her home and they lost, so she went back to the grandparents' house, where she and the Dodgers are undefeated, for Game 5.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads A superstitious person would say that the sudden appearance of a black cat on your doorstep is a bad omen, but the opposite is true for Japan's Hiroshima Onomichi City Museum of Art.
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While it is usually used to position objects and in architecture, the more superstitious believe it can divine the future, and many seek out feng shui masters and geomancers to choose auspicious dates for life events, such as marriages.
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But the Toronto researchers found that these faithful guardians of the Communist Party line have turned their attention to more mundane matters, devoting time and server strength to preventing rumors, fabricated news reports and superstitious premonitions from going viral.
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One of the weapons that Lincoln has is a "Screaming Zemi," which is a voodoo doll that you use to distract enemies in the game, because they are superstitious enough to believe that it has some real magical power.
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These were pretty abominable examples of cultural appropriation; the white performers stole slave songs, which popularized African-American culture and music with mainstream audiences, but they played up ignorant stereotypes, portraying blackface characters as dumb, buffoonish, lazy, and superstitious.
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The passing of the new year may be accompanied by superstitious rites, by an inquiry into the greater philosophies driving our lives and choices — or maybe just by more parties than one usually goes to in a given month.
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Regardless, we didn't judge, if only because we were going into the mountains for the next two days and, based on whatever biblical or superstitious story math we did in our heads, we didn't want to curse our outcomes.
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FROM PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" Hehner — who, along with his mom Bonnie, was in the delivery room with Otis — immediately fell head over heels for his little girl.
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And while some people try to cleanse spaces or their superstitious gateways by sageing doorways, this installation does the opposite, appealing to some kind of liminal god to crack open time, resurface the past, and let it linger in the present.
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FROM PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" Huntington-Whiteley celebrated her soon-to-arrive first child while surrounded by loved ones at a pink-and-yellow-infused baby shower in May.
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There are two potential reasons why the scene was censored: China disapproves of undead creatures being shown on-screen, as they're considered superstitious, and the dismembered body parts used to make the spiral could be considered too violent and gruesome.
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As the Wall Street Journal (paywall) reported yesterday, one group of people who adamantly believe in the full moon's chaotic properties is probably the last group of people you'd expect to be superstitious at all — doctors, nurses, and other hospital staffers.
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Neither one of us are very superstitious when it comes to science stuff like this, but I didn't want to make some big announcement and then, God forbid, have something go wrong and then have to go back and announce that.
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FROM PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" For the mini photo shoot, Williams wore a long black dress and blue silk kimono-style robe decorated with a multicolored flower print.
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Aid workers suffer mental health crisis Persistent beliefs The government has long tried to eradicate pasung, however superstitious beliefs, stigma against mental illness and a lack of understanding of mental health is keeping many in chains, even after they are rescued.
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A devotional is a curious thing: Somewhere between an almanac and an astrology column, it's both a systematic way of reading through the scriptures and a somewhat superstitious way of trying to align your days with the will of God.
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The superstitious in the party will be nervous, not because the number 13 suggests misfortune in China—it doesn't—but because the progenitor of five-year plans, the Soviet Union, had barely embarked on its 13th one when it collapsed.
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On August 22015th China's corruption watchdog, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, charged Wang Baoan, head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) from April 693 to January 269, with a variety of sins, including moral decay and "superstitious activities".
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Donald Trump did not prepare for a White House transition—or draft any kind of Election-Night speech—because the hyper-superstitious businessman was too afraid of "bad juju," two of his former top aides reveal in a new book.
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This is not the superstitious, reactionary peasant class of the revolutionaries and the historians; these are five boys, each with a life of his own, woven from the threads of their language, their culture and the camaraderie of their campfire.
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It was arguably the first major blow struck against the superstitious tyranny that is the modern-day MMA approach to cutting weight, a tyranny seemingly hell-bent on ignoring medicine, biology, and simple human decency in the name of—what, exactly?
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ORANGE, N. J. — Prayers will be said to-morrow morning in the Church of St. Michael the Archangel, in Matthews Street, this city, to lay a ghost which is driving the Italian residents of White Street, West Orange, into superstitious frenzy.
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What in the World Every superstitious passenger has ways of dealing with the existential uncertainties of air travel, but the ground crew of one Pakistani airliner raised the stakes on preflight rituals when it sacrificed a goat on the runway.
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"While we are not superstitious by nature, we do fear this transaction looks an awful lot like other deals done at the peak of prior cycles," Nick Colas, co-founder of DataTrek Research, wrote in his daily note sent out Thursday.
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I'm not a superstitious person by nature, but I felt like to sort of transpose those songs out of the very specific world Handsome Furs were in to a new project would maybe bringing along some phantasmagorical or psychic taint to it.
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So, whether you suffer from friggatriskaidekaphobia (the fear of this superstitious day) or just want to start early preparations for a spook-tastic Halloween, scroll down to see the fashionable charms that will give you good luck, while also looking stylish, too.
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While Liu has no experience in the securities business and his curriculum vitae reads much like Xiao's - and other previous heads of the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) for that matter - some superstitious 'netizens' are pinning their faith on his birth sign.
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When asked if she thinks it's bad luck for the groom to see his bride in her dress before the wedding, she said: "I'm very superstitious but I wouldn't say that it's bad luck, I would just say I prefer sticking with traditions."
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Even after controlling for party identification, religion and age, there was a marked correlation with support for Mr Trump (see chart 2): 55% of voters who scored positively on our conspiracism index favoured him, compared with 45% of their less superstitious peers.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's ruling Communist Party has expelled a former mayor of the port city of Ningbo, accusing him of taking bribes, trading influence and money for sex, indulging in "superstitious activities" and violating rules on extravagance and use of private clubs.
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"Donald Trump is one of the most superstitious men that most people have ever met," write former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski and his former deputy, David Bossie, in Let Trump Be Trump: The Inside Story of His Rise to the Presidency.
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If she was the superstitious kind, she would have chosen not to flick through the record books — as the last time a woman contested her first claycourt final in Paris, she got walloped 6-0 6-0 by an incumbent world number one.
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The good news for the Giants is that superstitious fans will note that the last two times they played the Packers on the road in the playoffs, they not only won the games but went on to win the Super Bowl both times.
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The sixty-nine year old, who has won more Grammy awards than any other artist and whose hits include "Superstitious", "I Just Called to Say I Love You" and "Isn't She Lovely", did not reveal what was behind him needing the transplant.
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I believe I have previously recounted the story of Matsumura winning a duel with 'Karate Uehara' by (again) not throwing a strike; choosing to meet the superstitious man at sunrise in a graveyard and arriving late to allow Uehara time to think himself into timidity.
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Stoyle says pamphlets printed during the English Civil War period also revived superstitious beliefs in witchcraft, leading to an upsurge in prosecutions and killings on charges of witchcraft which had dipped in earlier years under tighter state controls on popular printed accounts of witch trials.
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Pliny the Elder (AD 27–226), Dioscorides (AD 21983–28), and Pseudo-Galen (AD 129–216) all mention more "superstitious" means of abortion, such as eating the egg of a crow, being bitten by a dog, or crossing the menstrual blood of another woman.
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FROM PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" Earlier this year, Sigler opened up to PEOPLE about the ups and downs of parenthood, revealing that open lines of communication with other moms have been helpful.
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Much of it is matter-of-fact almost to the point of banality — Ms. Sheil studies her character's life and tries to approximate her looks and personality, as any serious actor would — but there is an almost superstitious undercurrent of menace running through the movie.
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For those who are not superstitious — real estate agents point to expatriates and young people — moving into a "haunted" home can take some of the sting out of buying or renting in Hong Kong, the city with the least affordable housing in the world.
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If, for example, a team is on a win streak, superstitious players might make sure to put on their uniforms exactly as they had in previous weeks: left sock first, then the right sock; left pant leg before the right pant leg, and so on.
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With the feudal system in tatters, the superstitious population blames the chaos on "possessed" women, from aristocratic ladies blocked from inheriting their family lands and titles to impoverished mothers worn out from giving birth to too many children who are now dying of hunger.
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"We are all much more superstitious than we recognize, and it takes a lot of logical thinking not to believe that this part of the world is not being somehow persecuted," said George Loewenstein, a professor of economics and psychology at Carnegie Mellon University.
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WATCH: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" "Every night he does since I was pregnant, hands down, even if things aren't going great and he's still snoring, somehow he knows how to massage my back," Simpson said.
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FROM PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" Guthrie says her own reactions to certain beloved stories — The Giving Tree, for example — have inspired her as an adult in different ways than they did as a child.
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Speaking of being lucky -- I am superstitious, so I am almost afraid to type this, but I am counting my blessings every second that my nearest and dearest are doing OK. I check in with my parents daily, who are taking this seriously and are hunkered down.
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Goldman spent much of the interview describing his personal recollection of the Ukraine investigation — from his vantage point when Republicans stormed the House's secure hearing room causing an hours-long delay in one of the witness depositions, to the superstitious haircut he got before the impeachment trial.
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Throughout your essays, you reserve harsh words for magazine articles that refer, say, to the idea that the Western world "stopped believing in hell" sometime around the European Enlightenment, or scholars who refer to Satan as an "antiquarian relic of a superstitious age," as biblical scholar Elaine Pagels did.
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Margaret Mooseford keeps sending these to me, and I am too superstitious to ignore them, so I have told her to remove me from her list because you do not have time for this nonsense, as you are so busy with all the gold you are finding out there.
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The transition to the Presidency of Donald J. Trump has at its center a man who has never served in public office, has spoken disdainfully of constitutional norms, and was either too faithful a reader of the polls or too superstitious to do much about getting ready to govern.
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For example, people who think more analytically (those who are more likely to exercise their analytic skills and not just trust their "gut" response) are less superstitious, less likely to believe in conspiracy theories and less receptive to seemingly profound but actually empty assertions (like "Wholeness quiets infinite phenomena").
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Armed with photos of Trump and his date of birth, the superstitious in China are turning to the divine - from masters on cosmic energy to experts on ancient spirits - for tips on what the president has got up his sleeve in the escalating trade spat between the world's two largest economies.
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As a straight, white man who happens to eat meat most days, owns a firearm and believes in the existence of God, I am assumed by the more vocal members of today's Democratic Party to be a racist, sexist, homophobic, superstitious gun-nut who doesn't give a damn about his carbon footprint.
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She counts off the most popular misconceptions: "That it's all about land-grabbing, that it's just about misdirected misogyny [against accused women], that Puritans were just stupid and superstitious, that those who died were the spiritual foremothers of the Wicca movement…" Stevick says she sympathizes with such interpretations up to a point.
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Technology makes such eerie interactions possible, and that's the paradox of the pervasive presence of scientific wonders in our daily lives: We carry futuristic fact-checking supercomputers in our pockets, but they don't make us any less superstitious, susceptible to trickery or caught in the thrall of our deep-down Dark Ages tendencies.
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" But plenty more people have shrugged it off, saying it's a dated superstition: 我也覺得都什麼時代了還信送鐘實在是很無聊。 — Soo Jū-hông (@speaktaiwanese) January 9, 2017 Soo Juhong says: "We're living in modern times — being superstitious over a clock is lame.
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After 10 years on reality TV and photographers tracking her every move, fans may think they know everything about Kim Kardashian West, but in a new interview for CR Fashion Book, she reveals the more modest and superstitious side of herself, including the sweet way her and husband Kanye West pay tribute to each of their late parents.
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The issue of a haunted flat melds the Hong Kong obsession with property with a Chinese population that tends to be superstitious and pursues ancient traditions, illustrated by the use of feng shui by many property developers to ensure that a building uses surrounding natural forces, such as mountains, wind and water, in a harmonious way.
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FROM PEN: Today's Savannah Guthrie Was Very Superstitious About Her Pregnancy: "I Didn't Want to Jinx It" The birthday boy, outfitted in an adorable festive black and gold shirt by Fayfaire, received his very own cake from Polkatots Cupcakes — whose creatively crafted dessert table also featured multiple wild-animal-themed confections, chocolate-covered pretzels and rainbow-sprinkled Rice Krispies Treats.
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The epic finale, on the other hand, had all the drama you could want on Thursday: a hard-won budding optimism falling victim to a fateful hammer blow; a not quite renewed optimism struck down by a second blow; and a third attempt to gather forces that proves hollow even without the decisive third hammer blow that the superstitious Mahler added but then excised.
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