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Pages: 1004
Authors: Steve Roud
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-04-06 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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Are black cats lucky or unlucky? What should you do when you hear the first cuckoo? Since when have people believed that it's unlucky to shoot an albatross? Why
The Mammoth Book of Superstition
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Roy Bainton
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-10 - Publisher: Robinson

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Rather than providing a dictionary of superstitions, of which there are already numerous excellent, exhaustive and, in many cases, academic works which list sup
Garlands, Conkers and Mother-Die
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Pages: 245
Authors: Roy Vickery
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-09-02 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Plants have had symbolic as well as practical meanings and uses since the beginning of human civilisation. This vivid account introduces readers to a rich varie
A Pocket Guide to Superstitions of the British Isles
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Stephen Roud
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The first major new book on British superstitions and their history in over a generation, this survey not only explains what people have believed and why, but w
The English Year
Language: en
Pages: 688
Authors: Steve Roud
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-01-31 - Publisher: Penguin UK

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This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year’s Ev