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1960 World Series

A part-owner of the Pirates who was too superstitious to watch the Series live, Crosby listened to the decisive contest with his wife Kathryn and two friends on a shortwave radio in Paris, France.

Corsned

Legal historian Richard Burn believed that corsned bread may have originally been the very sacramental bread, but that later, the bishops and clergy would no longer allow the communion bread for such superstitious purposes; they would, however, grant the people to use the same judicial rite, in eating some other morsels of bread, blessed or cursed for the same uses.

Edward Montagu, 2nd Earl of Manchester

He soon appointed his Provost-Marshall, William Dowsing, as a paid iconoclast, touring the churches of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire destroying all "Popish" and "superstitious" imagery, as well as features such as altar-rails.

Elyasin community

After taking power, the Mahdist (Messianic) Shiite Sect has spent large sum of money to spread superstitious beliefs throughout the Iranian society, i.e. the budget for Jamkaran Well, and claiming to manage the country by Imam Mahdi's guidance, but, yet they insist to call the dissidents as 'sect'.

Kevin Rhomberg

Kevin Rhomberg was named one of the Top 10 Most Superstitious Athletes by Men's Fitness.

Leo Igwe

Igwe was raised in southeastern Nigeria, and describes his household as being strictly Catholic in the midst of a "highly superstitious community," according to an interview in the Gold Coast Bulletin.

Maleyali Jotheyali

Preetham is the only son of a wealthy but superstitious real estate dealer (Rangayana Raghu).

Philippe, Duke of Anjou

As part of their intensely superstitious beliefs, the women mixed in earth from the grave of Saint Medard with his food; the child was given so much earth that his organs failed.

Svātmārāma

Nath sect came into existence to save the society from the misuse of tantra śāstra (from becoming the superstitious practice of ostensible black magic and sorcery).

Turk Wendell

Wendell was named the most superstitious athlete of all time by Men's Fitness.


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