It is astonishing how these primitive superstitions linger on.

She moves from there into the minds of their parents, with their primitive superstitions.

Symptoms of reversion to primitive superstition about death are contemporaneous with Romanticism.

'No, what you were experiencing was probably primitive superstition,' said the Thing.

The fact that we've refined the idea beyond primitive superstitions and wish-fulfilment doesn't mean we're not part of the same tradition.

Oh, these primitive superstitions, borne out of the ignorant need to explain the inexplicable!

He claims not to believe in all that "primitive superstition."

It was one of the great mysteries, and probably explained more than anything else why such primitive superstitions hung on even among intelligent people.

That sense is matched by primitive superstition and belief.

Had her mother harboured some primitive superstition about the totemistic quality of one's possessions?