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Old wives' tale · Vinony

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Old wives' tale

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supposed truth which is actually spurious or a superstition

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First Epistle to Timothy

human pregnancy

Categories

British urban legends King James Version Public opinion Superstitions Women's culture

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appeal to tradition

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fallacy of the undistributed middle

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false equivalence

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intentional fallacy

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homunculus argument

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naturalistic fallacy

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lie-to-children

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What links here88 pages

The Straight Dope

MythBusters, 2003 season

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cracking joints

Motif-Index of Folk-Literature

traditional medicine

Aarne–Thompson–Uther classification system