Belief in the spiritual world of Scripture is not superstition, nor is belief in the relations of that world to this. It may be taken as a system of corrupt rites. It has its primary sphere in false religions it seeks to corrupt what is true. In its rites and ceremonies its range extends from the ridiculous to the terrible. It is a perverted belief in things supernatural.
Nations generally have their superstitions.
There have been forms of divination in Greece and Rome by serpents, by clouds, by the flight of birds and other ways, and elaborate systems associated full of folly and cruelty and corruption. So among the nations at large. Carleton, in his Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, does justice to the same feature in that land of the Celt. Hugh Miller, in his Schools and Schoolmasters, is equally rich in what relates to the kindred superstitions of Scotland. The Isle of Man shares the same features, and naturally enough, for the people are of the same race and, because isolated, more liable to the full force of the system.