Chinese culture is filled with superstitions about numbers, with 888 considered to be a powerful number of wealth.
Some of baseball's superstitions are legend, ranging from quirky gimmicks to rituals bordering on obsessive behavior.
Oh, well, all my superstitions and my crazy suspicions of the people that I care about.
Her mother, while pretending to laugh at such superstitions, was, Emmeline knew, no different from her peasant forebears.
Such superstitions faded as scientific knowledge increased, but in the 19th century interest in the spirit world revived, beginning in Germany.
"Macaulay was notoriously dismissive, if not downright hostile and contemptuous, about native Indian, and particularly Hindu, customs and religious superstitions, " writes Masani.
And members of China's new middle class are embracing both state-of-the-art technology to transform their economy and 5, 000-year-old superstitions to support their lives.
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The January Barometer is among the panoply of superstitions surrounding stock market history made popular by the Stock Trader's Almanac founder, Yale Hirsch.
Has she any strange rituals or superstitions before a performance?
In this clubhouse full of veterans, few admit to any superstitions, beyond the universal acknowledgement that you don't step on the baseline when coming on or off the field.
Several players, including Yankee Nick Swisher, said that superstitions mostly take hold among younger players, who latch on to anything that they think will keep them in the majors.
As any anthropologist can tell you, introducing a new threat into an information-starved society inevitably results in the adoption of new superstitions as frightened individuals grasp at anything that might offer protection.
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The GOP nominee for President is falling for one of the biggest economic superstitions today: that a weak dollar will shift seeming trade imbalances (as if trade deficits were negative in and of themselves).
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These two excellent new books provide ample evidence of the chief benefits of such technology: man's ever-improving knowledge of such invisible nasties as viruses has debunked ignorant superstitions and eased the suffering of countless unfortunates.
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