Author: Deborah Murrell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Social sciences.
Superstitions
Author: Deborah Murrell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Social sciences.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Social sciences.
Kentucky Superstitions
Author: Daniel Lindsey Thomas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Superstitions
Author: William Carroll
Publisher: Coda Publications
ISBN: 9780910390569
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Publisher: Coda Publications
ISBN: 9780910390569
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
Mr. Hartston's Most Excellent Encyclopedia of Useless Information
Author: William Hartston
Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9781843581604
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Finding the answers to questions you'd never have thought to ask, reading an off-the-wall statistic, or browsing through lists of zany facts is a refreshing and amusing distraction from the tawdry details of everyday life. Organised alphabetically and cross referenced, this work features hilarious entries.
Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited
ISBN: 9781843581604
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Finding the answers to questions you'd never have thought to ask, reading an off-the-wall statistic, or browsing through lists of zany facts is a refreshing and amusing distraction from the tawdry details of everyday life. Organised alphabetically and cross referenced, this work features hilarious entries.
Baby Lore
Author: Rosalind Franklin
Publisher: Diggory Press Limited
ISBN: 0951565540
Category : Birth customs
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Hundreds of superstitions and old wives tales from every corner of the world related to every aspect of pregnancy, birth, and baby care are collected in this volume. It covers folklore from determining baby's sex at conception to easing baby's teething pains.
Publisher: Diggory Press Limited
ISBN: 0951565540
Category : Birth customs
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Hundreds of superstitions and old wives tales from every corner of the world related to every aspect of pregnancy, birth, and baby care are collected in this volume. It covers folklore from determining baby's sex at conception to easing baby's teething pains.
Irish Superstitions
Author: Dáithí Ó hÓgáin
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717157695
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, one of Ireland's leading folklorists, gives a lively and informative account of the widespread folk beliefs of Ireland in Irish Superstitions, this popular guide to Irish superstitions, old wives' tales and other spooky stuff from the Irish countryside. Irish Superstitions includes a list of good-luck charms, spells, soothsayings and other irrational but charming and creative folk beliefs. There are stories of leprechauns and sprites, ghosts, the evil eye and wise women's curses. There are also charms and spells to make crops grow, to keep cattle healthy, to ensure safe childbirth, and to fulfil many other longed-for desires. Most of the superstitions are of pagan origin; many were overlaid with popular Christian belief. Irish Superstitions: Table of Contents Foreword — The Mind Engaged - Man the Summation of All Things - The World Around Us - Ourselves and the Others - Rules and Practices of Life
Publisher: Gill & Macmillan Ltd
ISBN: 0717157695
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 105
Book Description
Dáithí Ó hÓgáin, one of Ireland's leading folklorists, gives a lively and informative account of the widespread folk beliefs of Ireland in Irish Superstitions, this popular guide to Irish superstitions, old wives' tales and other spooky stuff from the Irish countryside. Irish Superstitions includes a list of good-luck charms, spells, soothsayings and other irrational but charming and creative folk beliefs. There are stories of leprechauns and sprites, ghosts, the evil eye and wise women's curses. There are also charms and spells to make crops grow, to keep cattle healthy, to ensure safe childbirth, and to fulfil many other longed-for desires. Most of the superstitions are of pagan origin; many were overlaid with popular Christian belief. Irish Superstitions: Table of Contents Foreword — The Mind Engaged - Man the Summation of All Things - The World Around Us - Ourselves and the Others - Rules and Practices of Life
Black Cats & Four-leaf Clovers
Author: Harry Oliver
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781322762807
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781322762807
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Old Wives' Tales
Author: Mary Chamberlain
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752486799
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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?
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752486799
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
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?
Black Cats and Evil Eyes
Author: Chloe Rhodes
Publisher: Michael O'Mara
ISBN: 1843179164
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book illuminates the customs, beliefs and practices that link us to an ancient, and often darker, human past.
Publisher: Michael O'Mara
ISBN: 1843179164
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This book illuminates the customs, beliefs and practices that link us to an ancient, and often darker, human past.
Old Wives' Tales
Author: Peter H. Engel
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312098896
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Assesses the truth and falsehood of one hundred examples of conventional wisdom
Publisher: St Martins Press
ISBN: 9780312098896
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Assesses the truth and falsehood of one hundred examples of conventional wisdom