credulities

Your blind religious hatreds are no more reality than are your blind religious credulities.

Gay Marriage is Approved « Lean Left 2007

Nevertheless, the old sea-traditions, the immemorial credulities, popularly invested this old Manxman with preternatural powers of discernment.

Moby Dick; or the Whale 2002

Trevor-Roper emphasized his concern with the views of educated men and his lack of interest in what he called 'those elementary village credulities which anthropologists discover in all times and at all places.'

Good Witches Burke, Peter 1985

McLennan, Frazer, and Boyd Dawkins, etc., the experiences of our modern travellers among primitive races, Indian and European folk-lore, the world's credulities past and present, have helped me to fix the idea that amongst the true historians of mankind the children of our streets find a place.

A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green

Long before modern European nations received this imagery of past credulities the poets of Greece and Rome had versified the same old-time beliefs.

A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green

His very credulities have a philosophy of their own; and modern historians have acted unwisely in disdaining the occasional repetition even of his fables.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

The superstitions and credulities of the Middle Ages eventuated, during the course of the eighteenth century, in the Encyclopædism of French philosophy.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various

Unless such past credulities as these be considered it would be most difficult to account for many of the sayings of child-days, and the archaic ideas that have drifted into our folk-lore tales.

A History of Nursery Rhymes Percy B. Green

When we can specially take up that subject, one of our leading ideas, or credulities, will be that near approach by another world to this world would be catastrophic: that navigable worlds would avoid proximity; that others that have survived have organized into protective remotenesses, or orbits which approximate to regularity, though by no means to the degree of popular supposition.

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort

I don't care to deny poltergeists, because I suspect that later, when we're more enlightened, or when we widen the range of our credulities, or take on more of that increase of ignorance that is called knowledge, poltergeists may become assimilable.

The Book of the Damned Charles Fort