Sentences with phrase «superstitious dread of»

Once sealed, the tombs were perhaps the least likely of all places to be disturbed, for in Egypt as elsewhere, there was a superstitious dread of the dead and anything connected with them.

«Superstitious dread of the corpse of a person» who died of smallpox was common among Pulaya Christians and missionaries found it difficult to secure a «Christian burial» for victims of smallpox.

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Anonymous Editor tells us that superstitious villagers dreaded the appearance of a lone mummer, seeing it as a certain sign of impending death in the new year.