By David Pickering
Within the pages it provides a facinating overview of an astonishlingly diverse range of popular held fears and beliefs.
Many are still familiar and widespread, others belong firmly in the past, but are intriguing nonetheless for the insights they offer into human preoccupations and taboos.
Entries are arranged alphabetically by subject and vary from brief accounts of superstitions related to specific daily task, medical ailments, plants, and animals, to expansive discussions of wider topics, such as the weather, aphrodisiacs, childbirth, and death.
The extraordinary array of amulets, talismans and charms that people have used in their attempts to ward off badluck or bring about good fortune. In addition, many traditional rhymes
and chants are included, ranging from couplets to be chanted to avoid the dangers of being bewitched, to spells that may be tried in the hope of gleaning information about the future.
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