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.
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 275 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?
Download or read book The Old Wives Tale written by Arnold Bennett and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-06-09 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old Wives Tale deals with the lives of two very different sisters, Constance and Sophia Baines, following their stories from their youth, working in their mother's draper's shop, through the period of separation and quite different lives, into old age. It covers a period of about 70 years from roughly 1840 to 1905, and is set in Paris and Burslem, a town in the Potteries district of North Staffordshire.
Download or read book Old Wives Tales written by Thomas J. Craughwell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 combination of folklore and time-honoured advice, this book illuminates the history behind female wisdom from yesteryear. Taking in money saving ideas, gardening knowledge, household management and age-old remedies, it offers both seasoned advice and eccentric cures for a huge range of problems. Revealing that a great deal of old wives' lore does have its practical merits, but also how a lot of tales are not to be relied upon, this fascinating compendium of tips and tricks shows how sometimes old advice is still the best.
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.
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!
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.
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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 Whigmaleeries Wives Tales written by Jason Lairamore and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superstitions, Legends, Folklore and Old Wives' Tales--where do they come from? How did they get started? What's the "real" reason we throw spilled salt over our shoulder or avoid stepping on a crack? What were the old women really afraid of when someone broke a mirror? We delve into the imagination with some theories!
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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 Old Wives Tales written by Mary Chamberlain and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time, this work presents a challenge to orthodox medicine and a history of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times. What are old wives' tales? Where do they come from? It answers these questions, and more.
Download or read book The Old Wives Tale written by Arnold Bennett and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-05-05 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Old Wives' Tale: A Novel Occasionally somewhat sore at this neglect, but how proud mg the instinctive cognizance of its representative features and. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
