Cassell Dictionary of Superstitions
Author : David Pickering
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Folklore
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Author : David Pickering
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Folklore
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Author : Latin - English
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 39,66 MB
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ISBN : 1446108856
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Page : 1120 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 1902
Category : English language
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Author : Richard Webster
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2012-09-08
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0738725617
Have you ever rubbed a frog on your freckles? Trivia fans and fun fact fanatics will adore this fascinating, flickable encyclopedia of superstitions! Richard Webster presents over five hundred of the most obscure, curious, and just-plain-freaky superstitions of the Western world. Discover batty beliefs about baldness, beans, and the Bermuda Triangle, and peculiar practices regarding hiccups, hearses, and hunchbacks. From modern myths to centuries-old lore, The Encyclopedia of Superstitions offers a wealth of wonderfully weird beliefs on just about every topic you can imagine: Holidays Birth Death Weddings Colors Gemstones Trees Flowers Fairies Weather Numbers Animals Birds Insects Household Items Zodiac Signs Gambling The Human Body Food Praise: "[T]his reference makes for compulsive browsing."—Publishers Weekly
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Page : 882 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 1924
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Author : David Pickering
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780304365616
Alphabetically arranged entries provide coverage of a wide range of ancient and modern fears, beliefs, and taboos, explaining the rituals, charms, and talismans invoked by the superstitions.
Author : David Pickering
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Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,21 MB
Release : 1995
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Page : 762 pages
File Size : 47,80 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Biography
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Author : Thomas Teignmouth SHORE
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Page : 1400 pages
File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 1867
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Author : Roy Bainton
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 22,29 MB
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1472137477
Rather than providing a dictionary of superstitions, of which there are already numerous excellent, exhaustive and, in many cases, academic works which list superstitions from A to Z, Bainton gives us an entertaining flight over the terrain, landing from time to time in more thought-provoking areas. He offers an overview of humanity's often illogical and irrational persistence in seeking good luck and avoiding misfortune. While Steve Roud's two excellent books - The Penguin Dictionary of Superstitions and his Pocket Guide - and Philippa Waring's 1970 Dictionary concentrate on the British Isles, Bainton casts his net much wider. There are many origins which warrant the full back story, such as Friday the thirteenth and the Knights Templar, or the demonisation of the domestic cat resulting in 'cat holocausts' throughout Europe led by the Popes and the Inquisition. The whole is presented as a comprehensive, entertaining narrative flow, though it is, of course, a book that could be dipped into, and includes a thorough bibliography. Schoenberg, who developed the twelve-tone technique in music, was a notorious triskaidekaphobe. When the title of his opera Moses und Aaron resulted in a title with thirteen letters, he renamed it Moses und Aron. He believed he would die in his seventy-sixth year (7 + 6 = 13) and he was correct; he also died on Friday the thirteenth at thirteen minutes before midnight. As Sigmund Freud wrote, 'Superstition is in large part the expectation of trouble; and a person who has harboured frequent evil wishes against others, but has been brought up to be good and has therefore repressed such wishes into the unconscious, will be especially ready to expect punishment for his unconscious wickedness in the form of trouble threatening him from without.'