Despite, or because of their faith in miraculous cures, a strain of superstitious belief ran through this proud, emotionally distant family of intellectuals.

There was once a house built out of memories and inside this house lived a woman called The Memory Snatcher. This woman was my Aunt Beydan. She was a sorceress and as a child I feared she would stalk me in my sleep and steal all my memories until I could no longer remember who I was.

Creditors have better memories than debtors; creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times

The notion that writings created at a time when men huddled in superstitious terror from an eclipse can possibly be a credible representation of the Creator (whatever that word means to each person) is so absurd as to border on delusional.

And many of them have fallen for the 'high-tech superstition' without realizing its superstitious nature at all.

Why should I be afraid for, the devil came to me since when I was still a little kid