Author: Glasgow (Scotland). Public LibrariesPublisher:
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Category : Superstition
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
List of Selected Books on Superstitions
Author: Glasgow (Scotland). Public LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Superstition
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
More Books
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 902
Book Description
Issues consist of lists of new books added to the library ; also articles about aspects of printing and publishing history, and about exhibitions held in the library, and important acquisitions.
General Science Quarterly
Author: The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of CongressPublisher:
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 712
Book Description
Bulletin of Bibliography and Dramatic Index
Author: Bibliotheca biblica, a select list of books on sacred literature, with notices
Author: William OrmeThe Bookman's Index
Author: The Mammoth Book of Superstition
Author: Roy BaintonPublisher: Robinson
ISBN: 1472137477
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
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.'
The Great Learning Book for Ages Eight to Eighteen
Author: Ann Rahnasto BogojavlenskyPublisher:
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Category : Activity programs in education
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
Do You Believe It?
Author: Otis William CaldwellPublisher:
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Category : Common fallacies
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description