Habitual pantang
When you're so stuck in your old ways that you'd rather yell at the sky than admit you're wrong.
'I don't believe in the number 13, but I still say I'm cursed if I go near it.'
'I don't believe in bad omens, but I still say I'm going to be cursed if I don't eat my breakfast.'
'I don't believe in the ghost of the old man, but I still say I'm scared when I pass his house.'