An old superstition about the mandrake is that it 'shines like lightning until approached' - a feature noted by multiple Roman scholars. In reality, Mandrake leaves are particularly attractive to fireflies, which would well explain the mystical vanishing lights.

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Happy St.Patrick's Day🍀🌈💰 I am somewhat superstitious, especially with knocking on wood😳 Do you have a superstitions🤔😄

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While primarily a patron of goldsmiths, St. Eloy is also associated with farriers. Legend says he was having trouble shoeing a particularly difficult horse, so he simply popped the horse's leg off, put on the shoe, and then reattached it.

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In Tennin are a type of divine spiritual being found in the Buddhist tradition. One type of Tennin appear as extraordinarily beautiful women known as Tennyo. They live in the Buddhist heaven and are servants of the emperor of heaven and...

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In a tavern at the now 'Angel Yard' in Kendal, 1745, the apparition of an angel brandishing a sword appeared and saved a child from the marauding Jacobite army.


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If the existence of could be proven...Then, "what would be the value of Faith?" ✝️
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New from YA fan-favourite , is a story of best friends, bad luck and the consequences of breaking the rules in a town built on secrets and superstitions...

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A 1604 Witchcraft Act in England made working w/spirits a capital offense. It referenced ‘familiars,’ believed to be a witch’s demonic companion, who taught the witch magic & shape-shifted to be used as spies for the witch.

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According to Otta F. Swire, in the there was a belief that the best remedy to cure leprosy was to make a pilgrimage to and spend several days in the city eating fish and shellfish from the estuary.

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FRESH DROP: “Butterfly 4” (Ξ0.1952). Sometimes people revere numbers a great deal but sometimes they are ambivalent to them. Is it mere superstition or is there something more to it? What is your lucky number? https://t.co/2tLTb14tgV

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FRESH DROP: “18 Green Crosses” (Ξ0.1952). Sometimes people revere numbers a great deal but sometimes they are ambivalent to them. Is it mere superstition or is there something more to it? What do you think? https://t.co/z2EY21r22A

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FRESH DROP: “Butterfly 4” (Ξ0.1952). Sometimes people revere numbers a great deal but sometimes they are ambivalent to them. Is it mere superstition or is there something more to it? What is your lucky number? https://t.co/2tLTb14tgV

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Having Bridesmaids in matching dresses comes from the superstition that a bride may be taken away by evil spirits/ scorned lovers on her wedding day. Having ten bridesmaids in similar attire would trick the ill-intended until the vows were over!
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FRESH DROP: “18 Green Crosses” (Ξ0.1952). Sometimes people revere numbers a great deal but sometimes they are ambivalent to them. Is it mere superstition or is there something more to it? What do you think? https://t.co/z2EY21r22A

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FRESH DROP: “Butterfly 4” (Ξ0.1952). Sometimes people revere numbers a great deal but sometimes they are ambivalent to them. Is it mere superstition or is there something more to it? What is your lucky number? https://t.co/2tLTb14tgV

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FRESH DROP: “18 Green Crosses” (Ξ0.1952). Sometimes people revere numbers a great deal but sometimes they are ambivalent to them. Is it mere superstition or is there something more to it? What do you think? https://t.co/z2EY219qE0

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Bertrand Russell Quotes 366 with images, n1941
The intellectual, as we know him, is a spiritual descendant of the priest ; but the spread of education has robbed him of power. The power of the intellectual depends upon superstition : reverence for https://t.co/Ot6CC5BM2A

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