SUPERSTITION
(gr. “deisidaimonia”: “fear, or reverence demons”, that is, pagan gods). In the 1909 revision it appears as an adjective, “superstitious” (Acts 17:22), in Paul’s qualification of the Athenians; Indeed, they would accept that they were demon worshipers in their sense of the term, while Paul uses the word “daimõn” in the pejorative sense, from the monotheistic perspective.
In another passage Festus uses it, referring to Judaism (Acts 25:19). The term superstition can properly be applied to any system of beliefs that is not directly related to the Triune and One God, but rather places intermediate beings in a false mediating chain with influences on different aspects of life and the environment in which they exist. people develop.
Thus, magic, divination, spells, evocation of the dead, and a multitude of pagan practices fall within what can be designated as superstition.