"Superstitious notion" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... phrensy, and immediately commenced a series of the most intolerable annoyances, shooting the cattle, frightening the women and children, and insulting wayfarers wherever they could find them. The Indians had imbibed the superstitious notion, which had probably been taught them by John Sassamon, that the party which should commence the war and shed the first blood would be defeated. They therefore wished, by violence and insult, to provoke the English to strike ...
— King Philip - Makers of History • John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott |
