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Book Synopsis The Little Book Of Old Wives' Tales by : Sarah Klain
Download or read book The Little Book Of Old Wives' Tales written by Sarah Klain and published by Sarah Klain. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever witnessed a person wearing a red string on their left hand, or touching their belly when they see a bride? What about avoiding walking underneath a ladder on the street? The Little Book of Old Wives' Tales is the first volume in, The Little Book Of series by Sarah Klain. The author debuts her first book of old wives' tales in fifty-seven colourful and vivid illustrations. These humorous tales passed down from generations in her family lineage are about premonitions, relationships, pregnancy, death, health, misfortune, and fortune. This is the perfect and ideal book to sit down with a nice cuppa and have a laugh or two, or gift to someone who might need some mystical spice in their life.
Book Synopsis The Old Wives' Tale by : Arnold Bennett
Download or read book The Old Wives' Tale written by Arnold Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories by : Tania Modleski
Download or read book Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories written by Tania Modleski and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alerting readers to a body of recent work that has gone under-examined, Tania Modleski redraws in Old Wives' Tales the perimeter of popular culture. A critical analysis of films such as The Ballad of Little Jo, The Piano and Dogfight, Old Wives' Tales also takes up performance, autobiographical experience, and contemporary social issues to illustrate how women's genres mediate between us and reality. Modelski examines the changes occurring in traditional women's genres, such as romances and melodrama, and explores the phenomenon of female authors and performers who "cross-dress"--women, that is, who are moving into male genres and staking out territory declared off-limits by men and by many feminists.
Download or read book Old Wives' Lore written by Polly Bloom and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A treasure trove of age-old customs and time-honoured advice, as well as intriguing old wives' tales.
Book Synopsis Old Wives' Tales by : Mary Chamberlain
Download or read book Old Wives' Tales written by Mary Chamberlain and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From goddesses and witches to modern-day doctors—an entertaining history of women healers featuring an A–Z of remedies The woman healer is as old as history—for millennia she has been doctor, nurse, and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down in the form of old wives' tales. Using extensive research into archives and original texts, and numerous conversations with women in city and countryside, Mary Chamberlain presents a stimulating challenge to the history of orthodox medicine and an illuminating survey of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times.What are old wives’ tales? Where do they come from? Do they really work? These questions, and many more, are answered in this fascinating compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time. We may all know that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labor?
Book Synopsis Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels by : Robert Bernstein
Download or read book Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels written by Robert Bernstein and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers remedies from ancient Egypt to the rain forests of contemporary Latin America, and challenges the myth that modern clinical practice is the only effective form of medicine. The authors find that modern research often reveals a rational basis for supposedly outdated ideas. Most important, an increasing number of physicians, pharmaceutical researchers, and scientists are beginning to recognize the wealth of knowledge that can be retrieved from abandoned practices of earlier eras in Western medicine and from outside the boundaries of Western ideas entirely.
Download or read book Boy Or Girl written by Shelly Lavigne and published by Dell. This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Want to know the sex of your unborn child? Now 50 of the wisest old wives' tales are brought together in one adorable book for parents-to-be who are intrigued with predicting their baby's gender. Includes games to play at a baby shower, a gift plate that can be personalized by the giver, and the Chinese Conception Chart.
Book Synopsis Old Wives Tales by : Electa Kane Tritsch
Download or read book Old Wives Tales written by Electa Kane Tritsch and published by . This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dr. Nora Tunney accepts a job directing an archeological survey, she has no idea it will change her life. But the stray documents she collects bring her close to three of the "old wives" who built Mill Farm.
Book Synopsis What to Believe When You're Expecting by : Jonathan Schaffir
Download or read book What to Believe When You're Expecting written by Jonathan Schaffir and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pregnant women encounter advice from many directions about how to have a healthy pregnancy – not only from health care providers, but from relatives, friends, and the Internet. Some of these pieces of advice (on topics that range from inducing labor to telling the baby’s gender to improving breastfeeding) have been handed down from woman to woman for generations, and don’t appear in any medical textbooks. Dr. Jonathan Schaffir explores the origins of these old wives’ tales, and examines the medical evidence that proves which ones may be useful and which ones are just entertaining. On topics ranging from getting pregnant to the best way to recover from childbirth, the book settles the questions of what a woman should believe when she hears such advice.
Book Synopsis Mr. Hartston's Most Excellent Encyclopedia of Useless Information by : William Hartston
Download or read book Mr. Hartston's Most Excellent Encyclopedia of Useless Information written by William Hartston and published by Metro Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useless information--we can't get enough of it. Everywhere you look these days, there is a new book of trivia, a new web page, a new column in the newspaper, all containing a wealth of fascinatingly useless tidbits. Finding the answers to questions you'd never thought to ask, reading an off-the-wall statistic, or browsing through lists of zany facts is always a refreshing and amusing distraction from the tawdry details of everyday life. But this is no ordinary list of random facts. Unlike other books of useless information, it is organized alphabetically and full of cross references so that all those hilarious entries can be enjoyed and shared with other like-minded trivia fanatics. This is a treasure chest of a book for anyone whose curiosity extends beyond the worthy and dull to the eccentric and amusing!
Book Synopsis Black Cats & Four-leaf Clovers by : Harry Oliver
Download or read book Black Cats & Four-leaf Clovers written by Harry Oliver and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Virago Book of Fairy Tales by : Angela Carter
Download or read book The Virago Book of Fairy Tales written by Angela Carter and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two collections of little-known stories from Europe, the Arctic, the USA, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, contain tales of alluring women, ailing warriors, enchantresses and seekers of revenge. The heroines are always centre stage, as large as life, or even larger.
Download or read book The Old Wives' Tales: a poem written by and published by . This book was released on 1712 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Handmaid's Tale by : Margaret Atwood
Download or read book The Handmaid's Tale written by Margaret Atwood and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An instant classic and eerily prescient cultural phenomenon, from “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). Now an award-winning Hulu series starring Elizabeth Moss. In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate “Handmaids” under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred’s persistent memories of life in the “time before” and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood’s devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid’s Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning.
Book Synopsis Irish Superstitions by : Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
Download or read book Irish Superstitions written by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2002-03-01 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, one of Ireland's leading folklorists, gives a lively and informative account of the widespread folk beliefs of Ireland in Irish Superstitions, this popular guide to Irish superstitions, old wives' tales and other spooky stuff from the Irish countryside. Irish Superstitions includes a list of good-luck charms, spells, soothsayings and other irrational but charming and creative folk beliefs. There are stories of leprechauns and sprites, ghosts, the evil eye and wise women's curses. There are also charms and spells to make crops grow, to keep cattle healthy, to ensure safe childbirth, and to fulfil many other longed-for desires. Most of the superstitions are of pagan origin; many were overlaid with popular Christian belief. Irish Superstitions: Table of Contents Foreword — The Mind Engaged - Man the Summation of All Things - The World Around Us - Ourselves and the Others - Rules and Practices of Life
Book Synopsis Looking After the Ashes: Old Wives' Tales, Taboos; Supernatural and Childhood Superstitions by : Kopi Soh
Download or read book Looking After the Ashes: Old Wives' Tales, Taboos; Supernatural and Childhood Superstitions written by Kopi Soh and published by . This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you eat while lying down, you will turn into a snake. If you don't polish off all the rice on your plate you will marry a man full of pimples and pockmarks. Looking After the Ashes is a semi-biographical fiction of Kopi Soh's childhood stories. Growing up in a large extended Taoist influenced Peranakan family filled with strong women, Soh hears these words of 'wisdom' daily. She used to live in a world where clipping finger nails at night was strictly forbidden, pointing at the moon would result in one's ears getting chopped off, and children were forced to stay indoors during sundown for fear of collision with evil forces. A world where mental disorders and illnesses were believed to be caused by malevolent spirits. Talisman, mediums and fortune tellers were a part of everyday life.
Download or read book Eternity written by Tamara Thorne and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a century, the quiet little tourist town of Eternity, California, has been haunted by strange deaths, grisly murders, unspeakable mutilations -- all the work of a serial killer who some say is the "same" serial killer. Now, as the first snow starts to fall, terror grips Eternity as an undying evil begins its hunt once again.
