Encyclopedia of superstitions 9781504010931, 1504010930
This classic and thoroughly delightful reference explores the origins of superstitions. You’ll discover the origins behi
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Table of contents :
Title Page
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACCIDENTS
ACORN
ADDER
ADDER BITES
ADDER STONES
AGATE
AGNES
AGNES' EVE, ST.
AGUE, CURE OF
ALL SOULS' DAY
ANDREW'S WELL, ST.
ANGELS
ANIMALS
ANTS
APOPLEXY
APOSTLE SPOONS
APPLE
APPLE HOWLING
APPLE PIPS
APPLE TREES
APRIL
APRIL FOOL
APRON
ARCHES
ARVALS
ASCENSION DAY
ASHEN FAGGOT, THE
ASHES
ASH LEAVES
ASH SAP
ASH TREE
ASH WEDNESDAY
ASPARAGUS
ASPEN TREE
ASS
ASTHMA
BABY
BACHELOR'S BUTTON
BACK
BADGER
BAKER'S DOZEN
BAKING
BALDNESS
BALLS
BANNS
BAPTISM
BARNACLE
BATS
BAY TREE
BEAM
BEANS
BEATING THE BOUNDS. Bedbedroom
bees
beetle
bells
betrothal
bible
bidding (to funeral)
bidding (to wedding)
birds
birds' eggs
birth
"bit of my own again"
bittern
blackberry
blackbird
black cat
black cock
blackheads
black penny
black sheep
blacksmith
black snail
bleeding
bleeding nose
blisters
blood
blossoms
blue-bottles
body
boil
boiling
boils
bolts
bones
bone-shave
boosening
boots (on table)
borrowing
borrowing days
boy or girl
brake (plant)
bramble-arch
brasses (on horse's harness)
bread
bread (to find a corpse)
breakfast
bride
bride-ale
bride-bed
bride cakes. Bride's chairbride door
bride laces
bride's eve, st.
bride's day, st.
bride's pie
bride-wain.
bridge
broom
brownie
bumble-bee
bun
bunions
burbeck's bone.
burial
buried treasure
burn (fire)
burn (wound)
burning the faggot
burning t'old witch
burying old tom
bush
butter
butterfly
buttons
caesarian operation
cake
calf
calf (burning)
calf (hanging)
camphor
cancer
candle
candle (corpse)
candle-and-pins
candlemas.
canterbury bells
carrots
carrying the bride
cat
caterpillar
cattle
caul
chaff-riddling
charms
cheeks
cherries
chickens
chilblains
child. Childbirthchopping the block
christening
christmas
christmas box
christmas cards
christmas day
christmas decorations
christmas eve
christmas mummers
christmas stockings
christmas tree
chrstmas yule log
church
church bells
churching (of women)
churning
cider
cigarette
cinders
clock
clothes
club-moss
clubs (playing cards)
coal
cobblers
cobweb
cock
coffin rings
coins
cold (in head)
colic
colliers
communion, holy
confirmation
consumption
corns
corpse
coughs
couvade, the
cows
cradle
cramp
crawling
cricket
cricket (in the house)
crops
crossed eyes. CROSSED THINGSCROW
CROWING HEN
CRYING BACK THE DYING
CUCKOO
CURES, IN SEASON
CURFEW
CURLEW
CUTS
DADDY-LONGLEGS
DAFFODIL
DAIRY
DEAD EMBERS
DEAD MAN'S HAND
DEAFNESS
DEATH
DEATH AT LOW TIDE
DEATH-COME-QUICKLY
DEATH DIVINATION
DEATH PORTENTS
DEATH WATCH
DEATH WATCH BEETLE
DEER
DEW
DISH
DISHCLOTH
DOG
DOG WHIPPING
DOLPHIN
DONKEY
DOOR
DOORSTEP
DOVE
DRAKE'S DRUM
DREAMS
DRESS
DRESSING
DROPPING OF FORK (KNIFE, etc.)
DROPSY
DROWNING
DRUNKENNESS
DUCK
DUST
DYKE
DYSPEPSIA, TO CURE
EAGLE
EAR
EARACHE
EARRINGS
EASTER
EASTER EGGS
EBB TIDE
EDGEWELL OAK
EELS.
