superstition

A collection of Christmas superstitions from around the world, including ways to achieve a year of good luck and protect your pets.

Presents hundreds of superstitions arranged in seven categories: love, money, health, good and bad luck, lucky birds and insects, lucky trees, and lucky animals.

Presents folk tales and superstitions from central and southeastern Alabama, collected primarily between 1958 and 1962 by students from Troy State University, and includes selections from the Alabama Slave Narratives.

In a village where everything is painted white, a stranger agrees to paint the school in order to avoid bad luck, but instead teaches the villagers a valuable lesson.

Explains the meanings of thousands of signs, omens, spells, charms, cures, rituals, and taboos; arranged alphabetically by topic.

A new edition based on the twelve volume work on the pioneer study of magic and religion.

Brings together forgotten history and unknown facts about unlucky 13 to create the story of the rise of a single belief. It is also a book about superstition in general ... and draws on history and the range of contemporary superstitions; in so doing, it touches on the fate of mythmaking in general.

Mysterious happenings, beginning with a chain letter, have Mary Anne and her friends worried. The Baby-sitters need to solve the mystery soon or their bad luck might never end.

Early twentieth-century assemblage of traditional, literary, and contemporary reports of vampires from all ages and lands include discussions of the various theories of vampirism.