He shared the common superstitions of the time and some of them never left him.
Halloween has a number of superstitions associated with it.
Myths, folk-lore, hunting charms, fetishes, superstitions and customs were based on the same idea.
They have become^mainly Protestants, Catholics or Mormons, but retain many superstitions connected with their native religion.
When further he teaches that the attainment of happiness depends almost entirely upon insight and right calculation, fortune having very little to do with it; that the pleasures and pains of the mind are far more important than those of the body, owing to the accumulation of feeling caused by memory and anticipation; and that an indispensable condition of mental happiness lies in relieving the mind of all superstitions, which can be effected only by a thorough knowledge of the physical universe - he introduces an ample area for the exercise of the philosophic intellect.