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 Staging the Superstitions of Early Modern Europe By Andrew D. McCarthy (editor), Verena Theile (editor) 2013 | 308 Pages | ISBN: 1409440087 | PDF | 4 MB Engaging with fiction and history-and reading both genres as texts permeated with early modern anxieties, desires, and apprehensions-this collection scrutinizes the historical intersection of early modern European superstitions and English stage literature. Contributors analyze the cultural mechanisms that shape, preserve, and transmit beliefs. They investigate where superstitions come from and how they are sustained and communicated within early modern European society. It has been proposed by scholars that once enacted on stage and thus brought into contact with the literary-dramatic perspective, belief systems that had been preserved and reinforced by historical-literary texts underwent a drastic change. By highlighting the connection between historical-literary and literary-dramatic culture, this volume tests and explores the theory that performance of superstitions opened the way to disbelief.  The Encyclopedia of Superstitions By Richard Webster 2008 | 322 Pages | ISBN: 0738712779 | PDF | 38 MB 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
 They Believed That? a Cultural Encyclopedia of Superstitions and the Supernatural Around the World by Burns, William E.; English | 2022 | ISBN: 1440878471 | 323 pages | True PDF EPUB | 41.13 MB  Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland by Jane Wilde English | November 15, 2021 | ISBN: 1839407026 | True EPUB | 384 pages | 14.8 MB |
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