When you are practicing something unscientific anything can happen- and dire consequences are no exceptions.
"Messing with the rottweiler led to dire consequences"
No not really.
The financial consequences of ecstasy can be quite dire. Just blaze pot.
Situation or consequences; perhaps there are others.
There are no Buddhist superstitions although individuals may have their own private superstitions as in any religion.
yes
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This could lead to a memory leak
not really
The concept of traffic lights are perfectly safe but when they malfunction or go wrong the consequences can be dire.
Both have been recalled don't eat or feed your children any kind of peanut butter old or new or suffer the dire consequences.
While there are certainly historical, anthropological and cultural reasons behind most superstitions, they are called superstitions because of the very fact that they have no basis in Science.