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**LSDDSL** · 07-16-2011, 06:14 PM

I'm not sure I would extend the definition of superstition to cover everything from art to storytelling to the making of statues. People in the pre-modern era were more at home with imaginative and mythopoeic forms of expression; they did not feel themselves confined, as many of us moderns do, to a dreary literalism Apart from it stemming from mental proliferation, there's always the possibility that storytelling/ fantasy/myth/legend can then become superstition - for example the return of King Arthur in the UK, the return of King Gesar in Tibet etc etc

Superstition can be stifling when others around one are immersed in it .

07-16-2011, 06:14 PM	#7
LSDDSL Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 619 Senior Member	I'm not sure I would extend the definition of superstition to cover everything from art to storytelling to the making of statues. People in the pre-modern era were more at home with imaginative and mythopoeic forms of expression; they did not feel themselves confined, as many of us moderns do, to a dreary literalism Apart from it stemming from mental proliferation, there's always the possibility that storytelling/ fantasy/myth/legend can then become superstition - for example the return of King Arthur in the UK, the return of King Gesar in Tibet etc etc Superstition can be stifling when others around one are immersed in it .
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