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Superstition: Politics, Applications & Art

A superstition is any belief or practice considered by non-practitioners to be irrational or supernatural. It is commonly applied to beliefs and practices surrounding luck, fate, magic, amulets, astrology, fortune telling, spirits, and certain paranormal entities, particularly the belief that future events can be foretold by specific unrelated prior events.

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Superstition topic overview

The analysis highlights Politics, Applications and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Superstition.

Related topics
114
Source areas
7
Connected nodes
121
Extracted relationships
158
Concept neighborhoods
20
Bridge connections
121

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Alternative religious beliefs as superstition · 40 topics
Regional and national superstitions · 28 topics
Overview · 22 topics
Opposition to superstition · 10 topics
Superstition and politics · 6 topics
Contemporary use · 5 topics
Superstition and psychology · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Contemporary use

Alternative religious beliefs as superstition

Superstition and psychology

Superstition and politics

Opposition to superstition

Regional and national superstitions

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Superstition connects Entity context

The extracted context around Superstition shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Superstition → Academic, Belief, BritainAnthropology, Canadian-American, Cross-disciplinary, Evicting, Expressive, Form, Inexplicable, Jungian, Knowledge, Kuai Kuai, List, Long-existing, Modern Taiwanese, Paranormal, Philosophical, Purported, Randi, Religion Another extracted example is Superstition → According, Angels, Brazil, Cardinalis, Cardinals, Conservation, International Union, IUCN, Locomotive, Myrmecophaga, Nature, People, Roman Catholic Church, The, There, West, With. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Superstition

Top relations

see also · 24
Superstition → Academic, Belief, BritainAnthropology, Canadian-American, Cross-disciplinary, Evicting, Expressive, Form, Inexplicable, Jungian, Knowledge, Kuai Kuai, List, Long-existing, Modern Taiwanese, Paranormal, Philosophical, Purported, Randi, Religion
related to Animals · 17
Superstition → According, Angels, Brazil, Cardinalis, Cardinals, Conservation, International Union, IUCN, Locomotive, Myrmecophaga, Nature, People, Roman Catholic Church, The, There, West, With
related to Alternative religious beliefs as superstition · 15
Superstition → Also, BCE, Cicero, Diderot's, Encyclopédie, Greek, In, Latin, Nec, One, Religious, Roman, Romans, Such, Veyne
related to Opposition to superstition · 15
Superstition → AD, Cicero, Cicero's, De, During, Frederick II, God's, In, Lucretius, Middle Ages, Roman, The, The Roman Empire, Trials, Where Cicero
related to Contemporary use · 14
Superstition → Both Vyse, Cambridge Dictionary, Dale, Dale Martin, Definitions, For Vyse, Jane Risen, Lysann Damisch, Martin, Merriam-Webster, Similarly, Stuart Vyse, The Oxford English Dictionary, This
related to Numbers · 12
Superstition → Book, Certain, Chinese, East Asia, Greekτετράς, Greekφόβος, It, Mandarin, Revelation, Similarly, This, Triskaidekaphobia
related to Classifications · 9
Superstition → According, Chardonnens, Dieter Harmening's, Egyptian, Examples, László Sándor Chardonnens, Prognostication, Superstitio, The
related to Objects · 9
Superstition → According, Coronavirus, During, From, Great Depression, Indonesia, Northern India, Rome, There
related to Regional and national superstitions · 8
Superstition → Asian, China, Chinese, Feng, For, In China, Most, Similarly
related to Criticism of definitions · 7
Superstition → According, Chardonnens, Identifying, Items, László Sándor Chardonnens, OED, Oxford English Dictionary

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

superstitions superstitious people belief magic religious beliefs fear also luck according may certain irrational religion divination one chardonnens considered practices

Superstition relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 158 structured relationships around Superstition. Examples in this analysis include Superstition → is a → deviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes and particular animal behaviors → instance of → whereas the signs category constitutes signs. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Superstitionis adeviation of religious feeling and of the practices this feeling imposes0.90text
particular animal behaviorsinstance ofwhereas the signs category constitutes signs0.80text
Staddoninstance ofHe then extended this as a proposition regarding the nature of superstitious behavior in humans.Skinner's theory regarding superstition being the nature of the pigeons' behaviou…0.80text
Simmelhaginstance ofHe then extended this as a proposition regarding the nature of superstitious behavior in humans.Skinner's theory regarding superstition being the nature of the pigeons' behaviou…0.80text
who theorised an alternative explanation for the pigeons' behaviour.Despite challenges to Skinner's interpretation of the root of his pigeons' superstitious behaviourinstance ofHe then extended this as a proposition regarding the nature of superstitious behavior in humans.Skinner's theory regarding superstition being the nature of the pigeons' behaviou…0.80text
his conception of the reinforcement schedule has been used to explain superstitious behaviour in humansinstance ofHe then extended this as a proposition regarding the nature of superstitious behavior in humans.Skinner's theory regarding superstition being the nature of the pigeons' behaviou…0.80text
Superstitionrelated to Alternative religious beliefs as superstitionReligious0.60section
Superstitionrelated to Alternative religious beliefs as superstitionAlso0.60section
Superstitionrelated to Alternative religious beliefs as superstitionIn0.60section
Superstitionrelated to Alternative religious beliefs as superstitionLatin0.60section
Superstitionrelated to Alternative religious beliefs as superstitionGreek0.60section
Superstitionrelated to Alternative religious beliefs as superstitionRoman0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Superstition bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Religion, Superstitions and Also. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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  • superstition
    • Religion
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    • Also
    • Gods
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    • One
    • May
    • Fear
    • Superstitious
    • Religious
    • Action
    • Behavior
  • belief
    • Events
    • Irrational
    • Beliefs
    • Religious
    • Commonly
    • Says
    • Superstition
    • Superstitions
    • Religion
    • China
    • Action
    • Behavior
  • folk belief
    • Events
    • Irrational
    • Beliefs
    • Religious
    • Commonly
    • Says
    • Superstition
    • Superstitions
    • Religion
    • China
    • Action
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  • alternative religious beliefs as superstition
    • Superstitions
    • Religion
    • Events
    • Irrational
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    • Superstitious
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  • superstition and psychology
    • Religion
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  • superstition and politics
    • Religion
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    • Also
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  • opposition to superstition
    • Religion
    • Superstitions
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    • One
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    • Superstitious
    • Religious
    • Action
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Superstition, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Superstition with Alternative religious beliefs as superstition. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
SuperstitionAlternative religious beliefs as superstition · splits 81 ⟂ 41
SuperstitionRegional and national superstitions · splits 93 ⟂ 29
SuperstitionOverview · splits 99 ⟂ 23
SuperstitionOpposition to superstition · splits 111 ⟂ 11
SuperstitionSuperstition and politics · splits 115 ⟂ 7
SuperstitionContemporary use · splits 116 ⟂ 6
SuperstitionSuperstition and psychology · splits 118 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Superstition

Nodes122
Edges121
Triples158
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.016393
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Superstition to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Politics, Applications & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Superstition · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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