Download or read book Cassell Dictionary of Superstitions written by David Pickering and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary provides a fascinating overview of a diverse range of popularly held fears and beliefs. Many are still familiar and widespread. Others now belong firmly to the past, but are intriguing nonetheless for the insights they offer.

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.

Download or read book Dictionary of superstitions written by David Pickering and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cassell s Dictionary of Witchcraft written by David Pickering and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2002 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Separating truth from myth, an expert offers an A to Z guide to one of the most intriguing aspects of the super-natural. Hundreds of carefully researched articles provide explanations of the key concepts of witchcraft, from demons and exorcisms to sabbats and spells, as well as fascinating biographies of key figures. Articles on witch trials through the centuries draw on records of torture, confessions, and recantations.

Download or read book Cassell Dictionary of Witchcraft written by David Pickering and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1998 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dictionary is a guide to the subject of witchcraft which has exerted its influence on the popular imagination for centuries. It looks at the history of witchcraft, traces its development in countries such as Britain, Germany and the US, and explains the rituals and objects associated with it, from black sabbaths to covens, and from hands of glory to pentagrams. In addition, it provides biographies of key figures, such as the 17th-century Witch-Finder General, Matthew Hopkins, and the Great Beast Aleister Crowley and gives detailed accounts of notorious witch trials, drawing on contemporary documents and eye-witness views.

Download or read book A Dictionary of Superstitions written by Iona Archibald Opie and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book A Dictionary of Superstitions written by Sophie Lasne and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1984 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes superstitions related to minerals, plants, animals, weather, the calendar, the human body, stages of life, objects, and clothing

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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:

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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:

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Superstition written by Roy Bainton and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.'

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