On the Magnetic Cure of Wounds

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What is superstition?

For it is acknowledged that any superstition is a delirious and vain religion, whenever a person says or does something for the sake of obtaining some good or avoiding some evil, which has neither a natural nor a supernatural power to produce the intended effect. Just as if someone were to sow seeds in a river or plow the seashore, they would be said to perform a vanity, because the goal of sowing and plowing is a harvest, which goal this action of his cannot attain.
Examples of true superstition.

Thus, it is not free from superstition and vanity when holy water original: "aqua benedicta" is drunk against infirmity, or sprinkled for fertility, or when baths are used on the vigil of the Nativity against fevers and toothaches, or when one does not eat meat on the day of the Lord’s Nativity against fevers, or honors Saint Nicholas for...