"That's an old wives tale, nothing more then a superstition!" This could be one, hope it helped.
The word superstition is in the dictionary.
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I've heard of a superstition that mermaids are real and that they kill marine animals for food.
The word superstition is normally a noun. For instance, in the sentence "Molly has a superstition about black cats," the word is a noun. You could also say "Molly has a superstitious fear of black cats," where "superstitious" is an adjective describing the word fear. The only case I can think of where superstition would be an adjective would be something where you were talking about the Superstition Mountains in Arizona.
Superstition has it that a black cat crossing your path is an omen of ill fortune.
The word "superstition" also exists in French.
He cultivated a certain fatalism, a grain of superstition
i know a person who has a superstition about black cats, she thinks they are bad luckexamples of superstitions:it's bad luck to walk under a ladderyou get 7 years bad luck if you break a mirrorhorse shoes are good luckfour leaf clovers are good luckthrowing salt over your right shoulder is good luckA sentence could be:My friend has a superstition about mirrors, if they crack they give you bad luck.
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They turned to superstition as well as religion to explain away the causes.
My grandma believed the old superstition that putting up an umbrella inside the house is bad luck. The belief that eating bread crusts leads to curly hair is a silly superstition. She believes that Friday the thirteenth brings bad luck, but I think it's a ridiculous superstition.