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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions by : Philippa Waring
Download or read book A Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions written by Philippa Waring and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, this dictionary traces the probable origins of superstitions from all over the world, discussing the symbolic context in which they still survive and suggesting how they can help exploit good luck and avoid the bad.
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions by : Philippa Waring
Download or read book The Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions written by Philippa Waring and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Dictionary of Omens & Superstitions by : Philippa Waring
Download or read book The Dictionary of Omens & Superstitions written by Philippa Waring and published by Book Sales. This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists omens and superstitions from all over the world, tracing their probable origins, and suggests ways of exploiting good luck and avoiding bad
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Download or read book A Dictionary of Omens and Superstitions written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Superstitions by : Iona Opie
Download or read book A Dictionary of Superstitions written by Iona Opie and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the wide range of folk beliefs that have survived into our own age. The entries, arranged alphabetically by key word, cover every aspect of life and include spells, cures, rituals, taboos, charms and omens.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Signs, Omens and Superstitions by : Zolar
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Signs, Omens and Superstitions written by Zolar and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superstitions written by Francis Grose and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superstitions are surprisingly enduring. From dodging black cats to crossing one's fingers while making a wish to an aversion to staff meetings on Friday the thirteenth, it is remarkable how many superstitions remain intact--even in this age of rationalism and swift scientific advancement. First published in 1787 as part of the disparate collection A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions, Francis Grose's Superstitions represents years of careful data collection and fieldwork and presents a full catalog of ways the supernatural might be expected to interfere in one's life. Organized thematically into chapters like "Witches, Sorcerers, and Witchcraft," "Things Lucky and Unlucky," "Second Sight," "Omens," and "Superstitious Methods of Obtaining a Knowledge of Future Events," Superstitions offers a systematic overview of the superstitious beliefs of the day as well as those held by earlier generations. Here, Grose's work is reproduced under its original headings and supplemented by an informative introduction by Oxford English Dictionary editor John Simpson, setting the superstitions in proper historical and cultural context. The resulting collection is a delightfully quirky guide to traditional sayings and beliefs, many archaic but some still surprisingly common today.
Book Synopsis Cassell's Dictionary of Superstitions by : David Pickering
Download or read book Cassell's Dictionary of Superstitions written by David Pickering and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Signs, Omens and Superstitions by : Milton Goldsmith
Download or read book Signs, Omens and Superstitions written by Milton Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Signs, Omens and Superstitions by : Astra Cielo
Download or read book Signs, Omens and Superstitions written by Astra Cielo and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2020-10-16 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Book Synopsis Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by : Edgar Thurston
Download or read book Omens and Superstitions of Southern India written by Edgar Thurston and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superstitions written by Diagram Group and published by Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2008 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the meanings of thousands of signs, omens, spells, charms, cures, rituals, and taboos; arranged alphabetically by topic.
Book Synopsis Omens from Your Dreams by : Philippa Waring
Download or read book Omens from Your Dreams written by Philippa Waring and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Italian Superstitions by : Andrea Malossini
Download or read book Italian Superstitions written by Andrea Malossini and published by Andrea Malossini. This book was released on 2013-03-27 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all superstitious, even those who affirm the opposite. Superstition is natural, it resides in all of us: it represents the human answer to rare, singular, and mysterious phenomena. All that cannot be explained or resolved in a logical manner disturbs the human spirit, promoting many to devise remedies that, while irrational, can restore hope and security. It is fear, therefore, that generates, feeds, and preserves superstition. Not surprisingly, religion with its dogmas, natural phenomena with its mysteries, and life’s cycle with its uncertainties, have always been a source of superstitious beliefs. Andrea Malossini’s book – which collects over one thousand superstitious – reports, in an orderly manner, Italian superstitious beliefs along with a brief description of their origin and mening.The intent is to give the reader an idea of Italian superstitions, in a smooth and easy way, hoping, thanks to the suggestion in the titles, to arouse curiosity. This small book is therefore not necessarily devoted to superstitious people, but to all of those who, perhaps out of habit, want to know why, when they see an upside down piece of bread on the table, they turn it over, or why, not being happy to have spilled some oil, they also throw a handful of salt over their shoulder. Author A firmly convinced rationalist and agnostic, Andrea Malossini is not superstitious and does not believe in the absurd and irrational rites suggested by superstitions. Luckily, he was born on a Thursday, of an even year, of a non-leap year, and apprentice on a Wednesday, therefore, undoubtedly, born under the best omens. Maybe for this reason- and for his inexhaustible curiosity towards the things that appear to the many as strange, mysterious and incomprehensible- he has been studying, collecting and writing for many years on topics regarding superstition and witchcraft without the fear of being charmed by them. Among the very few superstitions that he grants himself- more to keep family-peace than anything else- there are the never upside-down bread on the table and never place the hat on the bed rules. On the subject of popular traditions he cooperated with several newspapers and periodicals. He was the author of the moon weekly almanac on the Sunday television program “Linea Verde” broadcasted on Rai Uno; today he is the author and voice of the weekly column “Lune e Cieli” broadcasted live on the Television station TeleSanterno- Odeon TV. He published over ten books for the publishing company Garzanti , A.Vallardi e Area51 Publishing, among which: “Manuale di stregoneria” (Witchcraft Manual), “Le ricette delle streghe” (Witches Recipes), “Breve storia delle streghe” Witches: a brief history), “Dizionario delle superstizioni italiane” (Dicionary of Italian superstitions), “Gli unti del Signore” (God’s Anointed), “Dizionario dei Santi patroni”(Dictionary of Patron Saints).
Book Synopsis A Brief Dictionary of American Superstitions by : Vergilius Ferm
Download or read book A Brief Dictionary of American Superstitions written by Vergilius Ferm and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For other editions, see Author Catalog.
Download or read book Omens and Superstitions written by Omens and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies by : Michael D. Bailey
Download or read book Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies written by Michael D. Bailey and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding black cats. Certain religious practices might also come to mind—praying to St. Christopher or lighting candles for the dead. Benign as they might seem today, such practices were not always perceived that way. In medieval Europe superstitions were considered serious offenses, violations of essential precepts of Christian doctrine or immutable natural laws. But how and why did this come to be? In Fearful Spirits, Reasoned Follies, Michael D. Bailey explores the thorny concept of superstition as it was understood and debated in the Middle Ages. Bailey begins by tracing Christian thinking about superstition from the patristic period through the early and high Middle Ages. He then turns to the later Middle Ages, a period that witnessed an outpouring of writings devoted to superstition—tracts and treatises with titles such as De superstitionibus and Contra vitia superstitionum. Most were written by theologians and other academics based in Europe’s universities and courts, men who were increasingly anxious about the proliferation of suspect beliefs and practices, from elite ritual magic to common healing charms, from astrological divination to the observance of signs and omens. As Bailey shows, however, authorities were far more sophisticated in their reasoning than one might suspect, using accusations of superstition in a calculated way to control the boundaries of legitimate religion and acceptable science. This in turn would lay the conceptual groundwork for future discussions of religion, science, and magic in the early modern world. Indeed, by revealing the extent to which early modern thinkers took up old questions about the operation of natural properties and forces using the vocabulary of science rather than of belief, Bailey exposes the powerful but in many ways false dichotomy between the "superstitious" Middle Ages and "rational" European modernity.
