"Superstition" is a word in ENGLISH
Excessive nicety; scrupulous exactness.
An ignorant or irrational worship of the Supreme
Deity; excessive exactness or rigor in religious opinions or practice;
extreme and unnecessary scruples in the observance of religious rites
not commanded, or of points of minor importance; also, a rite or
practice proceeding from excess of sculptures in religion.
The worship of a false god or gods; false religion;
religious veneration for objects.
Belief in the direct agency of superior powers in
certain extraordinary or singular events, or in magic, omens,
prognostics, or the like.
An excessive reverence for, or fear of, that which is
unknown or mysterious.
She had thought she knew what war was, but as their empty eyes and too-thin bodies etched themselves onto her soul, Vhalla realized she knew nothing at all. They were all boys and girls playing at war, writing their own songs the bards would sing. But the bards never sang about this. Suddenly the faces of the people she had killed came back to her. We are monsters.
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