Origin and Curiosities of Superstition

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How humans formed their beliefs, myths, and superstitions? This book deals with the problem of superstition, its origin and curiosities.

“How is it that we have succeeded in persuading reasonable beings that the thing most impossible to understand was the most essential for them. It is because they were greatly frightened; it is because when men are kept in fear they cease to reason; it is because they have been expressly enjoined to distrust their reason. When the brain is troubled, we believe everything and examine nothing.” (Baron d'Holbach)

How humans formed their beliefs, myths, and superstitions? This book deals with the problem of superstition, its origin and curiosities. “How is it that we have succeeded in persuading reasonable beings that the thing most impossible to understand was the most essential for them. It is because t...

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