Every Mans Book Of Superstitions
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Author | : Christine Chaundler |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1504067975 |
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An enlightening examination of common superstitions and their fascinating origins in history, myth, and ancient religion. Superstitions represent some of humanity’s earliest attempts to make sense of a dangerous and often incomprehensible world. Even ideas that seem innocuous today, like “getting up on the wrong side of the bed,” have their origins in beliefs and practices of vital importance. In Every Man’s Book of Superstitions, English historian Christine Chaundler explores enduring ideas about luck, magic, astrology, portentous symbols, and more. She also looks at superstitions related to illness, animals, mealtimes, special occasions, specific professions, and so on.
Author | : Richard Webster |
Publisher | : Llewellyn Worldwide |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2012-09-08 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0738725617 |
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Have you ever rubbed a frog on your freckles? Trivia fans and fun fact fanatics will adore this fascinating, flickable encyclopedia of superstitions! Richard Webster presents over five hundred of the most obscure, curious, and just-plain-freaky superstitions of the Western world. Discover batty beliefs about baldness, beans, and the Bermuda Triangle, and peculiar practices regarding hiccups, hearses, and hunchbacks. From modern myths to centuries-old lore, The Encyclopedia of Superstitions offers a wealth of wonderfully weird beliefs on just about every topic you can imagine: Holidays Birth Death Weddings Colors Gemstones Trees Flowers Fairies Weather Numbers Animals Birds Insects Household Items Zodiac Signs Gambling The Human Body Food Praise: "[T]his reference makes for compulsive browsing."—Publishers Weekly
Author | : Alexander Barrie |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 508 |
Release | : 2005-11-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0750954272 |
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Britain's rich and varied folklore, legends and beliefs provide an insight into the island's history. Every invader, refugee or settler has helped contribute some new element or twist to the complex pattern of our national heritage. This volume provides a comprehensive companion to legends and customs in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Author | : Kathlyn Gay |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 2013-03-18 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0802735584 |
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Have you ever wondered what the story is behind the strange sports superstitions you hear about? Gay's collection of superstitions in sports runs the gamut from fishing to football, from amateur players to professionals, from individuals to teams, and from ancient times to the present.
Author | : Steve Bruce |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0191612170 |
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The decline in power, popularity and prestige of religion across the modern world is not a short-term or localized trend nor is it an accident. It is a consequence of subtle but powerful features of modernization. Renowned sociologist, Steve Bruce, elaborates the secularization paradigm and defends it against a wide variety of recent attempts at rebuttal and refutation. Using the best available statistical and qualitative evidence Bruce considers the implications for the
Author | : Leslie Dunmore-Leiber |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1000 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Book review digest |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Carveth Read |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2022-05-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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The study explains a hypothesis that the human race has descended from some ape-like stock by a series of changes which began and, until recently, were maintained by the practice of hunting in pack for animal food, instead of being content with the fruits and other nutritious products of the tropical forest.
Author | : Sir William Robert Wills Wilde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1852 |
Genre | : Folklore |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Arthur James Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1554 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Bibliography, National |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : W. Edward Craighead |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 502 |
Release | : 2002-11-11 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780471270836 |
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A complete reference to the fields of psychology and behavioral science Volume 4 is the final volume in The Corsini Encyclopedia of Psychology and Behavioral Science series. Providing psychologists, teachers, researchers, and students with complete reference for over 1,200 topics across four volumes, this resource in invaluable for both clinical and research settings. Coverage includes conditions, assessments, scales, diagnoses, treatments, and more, including biographies on psychologists of note and psychological organizations from across the globe. The Third Edition has been updated to reflect the growing impact of neuroscience and biomedical research, providing a highly relevant reference for the highest standard of care.