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How to distinguish tradition from feudal superstition?

Tradition: If you don't do this, your grandfather will beat you to death. Superstition: If you don't do this, your ancestors will come back to life and beat you to death. In fact, the relationship between tradition and superstition is often ambiguous. Many traditions may originate from superstitions, and many superstitions appear in the process of explaining traditions. If we define them only from the level of expression ... tradition: people's long-established habits, behaviors or understandings are maintained by human consciousness. Superstition: Taboo, agreement and cognition produced in the process of explaining the world with religious worldview, whose continuation is maintained by the existence of religious worldview.