Wonders, Ch 4&5

I agree with Cameron; is amazing (wondrous?) to me how intelligent many of these people are and how deeply superstitious they can be. Much of it was likely fueled by the wild politics of the Reformation, but superstition (which contains much more that simply religion) existed long before the Reformation and continues to this day. Perhaps it is the manifestation of fear in the mythologies of the unknown, or an urge or desire for experiential symmetry of linguistic dichotomies, such as the extraordinary births that was repeated mentioned in the text (in comparison the dichotomous counterpart of "ordinary" births). This will definitely be a topic of reflection in my paper.