It is some native superstition, I am told.
Many of them were native Africans, imported hither in slave ships, and retaining their native superstitions and burial customs, among which was that of burying by night, with various mummeries and outcries.
And Semper Cuni Linctus, the very night that he reamed his subaltern for taking native superstitions seriously, passed an olive garden and saw the Seventeen . . . and with them was the Eighteenth, the one they had crucified the Friday before.
The aye-aye is a near threatened species not only because its habitat is being destroyed, but also due to native superstition.
It's all the fault of that Oh-Doomy-Gloom fellow and his quaint native superstitions!
Ciudad de Cielo was a little prefab nest of unbelievers, scientists and engineers who were at best agnostics, together with local workers and clerks who practiced a Catholic faith underlain with native superstitions and idol worship.
This society of lost children give rise to native superstition that the island is haunted.
He indeed went so far as to hint of the faint beating of great wings, and of a glimpse of shining eyes and a mountainous white bulk beyond the remotest trees-but I suppose he had been hearing too much native superstition.
His tone was impatient; he had had enough of native superstition.
It's just a native superstition.