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Superstitious uses
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Prayer for the Dead
Dead. A bequest of personal estate for masses for the dead is not void as a gift to superstitious uses, Bourne v. Keane, 119 AC 815; overruling West v. Shuttleworth, (1835) 2 My&K 684, and the cases decided
Pentacle
so as to form a six pointed star It was used in early ornamental art and also with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of the Middle Ages The six pointed star is more comonly called
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Corsned bread
panis conjuratus, or offa execrata, Lat., the morsel of execration, or ordeal bread]. It was a kind of superstitious trial or ordeal used among the Saxons, to purge themselves of any accusation, by taking a piece of
Transubstantiation
saint, and the sacrifice of the mass as they are now used in the Church of Rome are superstitious and idolatrous, and I do solemnly in the presence of God profess testify and declare that I do
Civil Law
all that related to one subject in one Part, consisting of several Books. Others attribute it to the superstitious respect of the ancients for the number seven, as the most perfect. This book is variously quoted by
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