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Bygone Beliefs

THESE Excursions in the Byways of Thought were undertaken at different times and on different occasions; consequently, the reader may be able to detect in them inequalities of treatment. He may feel that I have lingered too long in some byways and hurried too rapidly through others, taking, as it were, but a general view of the road in the latter case, whilst examining everything that could be seen in the former with, perhaps, undue care.

By H. Stanley Redgrove

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9781437892987 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2009, cover price $32.99

9781404362314 | Indypublish.Com, April 1, 2003, cover price $77.99 | About this edition: THESE Excursions in the Byways of Thought were undertaken at different times and on different occasions; consequently, the reader may be able to detect in them inequalities of treatment.

9781588271167 | Indypublish.Com, February 1, 2002, cover price $93.99

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9781438790695 | Intl Business Pubns USA, September 9, 2009, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: THESE Excursions in the Byways of Thought were undertaken at different times and on different occasions; consequently, the reader may be able to detect in them inequalities of treatment.

9781409982494 | Ill edition (Dodo Pr, May 30, 2009), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: Herbert Stanley Redgrove (1887-1943) was a chemist who helped to form the Alchemical Society in London.

9781437892932 | Indypublish.Com, February 28, 2009, cover price $26.99

9781406837698 | Echo Library, March 31, 2007, cover price $9.90 | About this edition: Excursions in the various byways of Thought

9781596050266 | Cosimo Inc, September 30, 2004, cover price $9.99 | About this edition: The natural world contains amazing mysteries, some of which can be described or explained by science or philosophy.

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The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition

Product Description: Artist Mark Menjivar was in an antique bookshop in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he found 4 four-leaf clovers pressed between the yellowed pages of an aged copy of 1000 Facts Worth Knowing. Their discovery beguiled Menjivar so much that he began a multiyear exploration into the concept of luck and its intersections with belief, culture, superstition, and tradition in peopleâs lives...read more

By Harrell Fletcher (foreword by) and Mark Menjivar

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9781595342492 | Trinity Univ Pr, June 16, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Artist Mark Menjivar was in an antique bookshop in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he found 4 four-leaf clovers pressed between the yellowed pages of an aged copy of 1000 Facts Worth Knowing.

Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition

Explores the personality traits that make individuals receptive to superstition, as well as the ways superstitious beliefs can determine actions

By Stuart A. Vyse

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9780195078824 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 24, 1997, cover price $82.00 | About this edition: Explores the personality traits that make individuals receptive to superstition, as well as the ways superstitious beliefs can determine actions

Paperback:

9780195136340 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 18, 2000), cover price $22.95

Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition

Product Description: While we live in a technologically and scientifically advanced age, superstition is as widespread as ever. Not limited to just athletes and actors, superstitious beliefs are common among people of all occupations, educational backgrounds, and income levels...read more

By Stuart Vyse

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9780199996926 | Updated edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2013), cover price $20.95 | About this edition: While we live in a technologically and scientifically advanced age, superstition is as widespread as ever.

Black Cats and White Wedding Dresses: Folk Customs

Product Description: An introduction to folk beliefs found in North America, including those having to do with predicting the future, the weather, and good/bad luck.

By Thomas Arkham

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9781422224915 | Mason Crest, January 1, 2013, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An introduction to folk beliefs found in North America, including those having to do with predicting the future, the weather, and good/bad luck.

Buckland's Book of Gypsy Magic: Travelers' Stories, Spells & Healings

By Raymond Buckland

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9781578634675 | Samuel Weiser, May 1, 2010, cover price $16.95

Book of Superstitious Stuff: Weird Happenings, Wacky Rites, Frightening Fears, Mysterious Myths & Other Bizarre Beliefs

Product Description: From the curse of the lottery winners to the good feng shui of a local restaurant, this quirky, wacky, weird, and wonderful collection of superstitions uncovers the truth about some of our most familiar beliefs, as well as others that are much stranger...read more

By Joanne O'Sullivan

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9781936140022 | Random House Inc, March 1, 2010, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: From the curse of the lottery winners to the good feng shui of a local restaurant, this quirky, wacky, weird, and wonderful collection of superstitions uncovers the truth about some of our most familiar beliefs, as well as others that are much stranger.

Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans

Product Description: Since its publication in 1915, Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans has been not only a valuable addition to the catalogue of American folklore but also a vital resource in preserving a linguistic culture and traditions that were already fading from the American consciousness...read more

By Edwin Miller Fogel, Ph. D.

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9780271036441 | Bilingual edition (Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 15, 2010), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Since its publication in 1915, Beliefs and Superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans has been not only a valuable addition to the catalogue of American folklore but also a vital resource in preserving a linguistic culture and traditions that were already fading from the American consciousness.

9780548638989 | Kessinger Pub Co, October 30, 2007, cover price $33.95

Superstitions: Beliefs, Rituals and Magic

Product Description: All the facts and myths we live by. Do you walk under ladders? Do you avoid black cats? We are living in the age of science, and yet superstitions continue to influence how we live our lives and affect the way we behave. Includes color pictures, tables on horoscopes, astrology, numerology and religion...read more

By Xavier Waterkeyn

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9781741106619 | New Holland Pub Pty Ltd, September 10, 2009, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: All the facts and myths we live by.

Superstitions: 1,013 of the Wackiest Myths, Fables & Old Wives' Tales

By Deborah Murrell

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9780762109227 | Readers Digest, October 2, 2008, cover price $24.95

Luck: Understanding Luck and Improving the Odds

Looking at the role of luck throughout history, culture, and religion, the authors explain how luck can become opportunity, potential, and a guiding force that can lead to many of life's rewards and offers practical steps designed to improve one's path to fortune. 25,000 first printing.

By Anthony H. Davidson and Barrie Dolnick

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9780307347503 | 1 edition (Harmony Books, November 6, 2007), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Looking at the role of luck throughout history, culture, and religion, the authors explain how luck can become opportunity, potential, and a guiding force that can lead to many of life's rewards and offers practical steps designed to improve one's path to fortune.

Miscellaneous:

9780307405302 | Harmony Books, November 6, 2007, cover price $19.95

Superstitions of Sailors

By Angelo S. Rappoport

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9780486456010 | Dover Pubns, February 27, 2007, cover price $10.95

The Book of Werewolves

Product Description: With the shocking histories of ten famous cases, this classic blends science, superstition, and fiction to tell the full story of the werewolves among us. The Book of Werewolves was the first serious academic study of lycanthropy and "blood-lust" written in English...read more

By Sabine Baring-Gould

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9780486449968 | Dover Pubns, May 19, 2006, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: With the shocking histories of ten famous cases, this classic blends science, superstition, and fiction to tell the full story of the werewolves among us.

Your Pregnancy Guide to Superstitions And Old Wives Tales

Product Description: Advice on what to eat, drink & wear during pregnancy, charms to protect mother & baby from harm, influencing babyâs gender, inducing late babies, lessening the pain of childbirth, advice for dad, and more!

By Rosalind Franklin

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9781846850639 | Diggory Pr, January 31, 2006, cover price $10.99 | About this edition: Advice on what to eat, drink & wear during pregnancy, charms to protect mother & baby from harm, influencing babyâs gender, inducing late babies, lessening the pain of childbirth, advice for dad, and more!

13: The Story of the World's Most Notorious Superstition

A fascinating study of this most unlucky of numbers traces the history of superstitious beliefs surrounding '13,' identifying the origins of the myth and following its consequences through history, including the debate in Spain over whether Tuesday or Friday the 13th should be the unluckiest of days and the name of the only major hotel in Manhatten with a 13th floor. Reprint.

By Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

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9780452284968 | Reprint edition (Plume, September 1, 2005), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: A fascinating study of this most unlucky of numbers traces the history of superstitious beliefs surrounding '13,' identifying the origins of the myth and following its consequences through history, including the debate in Spain over whether Tuesday or Friday the 13th should be the unluckiest of days and the name of the only major hotel in Manhatten with a 13th floor.

13: The Story Of The World's Most Popular Superstition

A fascinating study of this most unlucky of numbers traces the history of superstitious beliefs surrounding '13' identifying the origins of the myth and following its consequences through history, including the debate in Spain over whether Tuesday or Friday the 13th should be the unluckiest of days and the name of the only major hotel in Manhatten with a 13th floor.

By Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

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9781568583068 | Running Pr Book Pub, October 4, 2004, cover price $22.54 | About this edition: A fascinating study of this most unlucky of numbers traces the history of superstitious beliefs surrounding '13' identifying the origins of the myth and following its consequences through history, including the debate in Spain over whether Tuesday or Friday the 13th should be the unluckiest of days and the name of the only major hotel in Manhatten with a 13th floor.

Bizarre Superstitions & Proverbs: The World's Wackiest Proverbs, Rituals, And Beliefs

Product Description: In the same irresistible format as the wildly popular Famous Last Words and Foolish Words, this worldwide compendium features the most way-out superstitions, from the backwoods of the Ozarks to the foothills of Kilimanjaro, with explanations on how some of these beliefs developed...read more

By Christopher Cooper

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9781856487269 | Promotional Reprint Co Ltd, September 1, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: In the same irresistible format as the wildly popular Famous Last Words and Foolish Words, this worldwide compendium features the most way-out superstitions, from the backwoods of the Ozarks to the foothills of Kilimanjaro, with explanations on how some of these beliefs developed.

The Evil Eye: The Classic Account of an Ancient Superstition

Product Description: In Italian, it's referred to as "malocchio." In Spanish, it's "el ojo." And in Farsi, it's "bla band." In many cultures, primitive or sophisticated, the "evil eye" is considered to be a gaze that can harm or bewitch. This classic text on the subject, first published more than a century ago, recounts the many afflictions said to result from that stare, from the days of the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, up to the late nineteenth century...read more

By Frederick Thomas Elworthy

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9780486434377 | Dover Pubns, June 18, 2004, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In Italian, it's referred to as "malocchio.

Lost Worlds and Underground Mysteries of the Far East

By Timothy Green Beckley (introduced by) and M. Paul Dare

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9781892062499 | Inner Light - Global communications, April 1, 2004, cover price $24.95

Satan's Invisible World Discovered

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

By George Sinclair

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9780820110684, titled "Satan's Invisible World Discovered" | Reprint edition (Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint, December 1, 1969), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work.

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9780766185333, titled "Satan's Invisible World Discovered" | Kessinger Pub Co, March 30, 2004, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Godly Fear: The Epistle to the Hebrews and Greco-Roman Critiques of Superstition

By Patrick Gray

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9789004130753 | Brill Academic Pub, January 1, 2004, cover price $186.00

Godly Fear: The Epistle to Hebrews and Greco-Roman Critiques of Superstition

Product Description: To what extent was early Christianity viewed as superstition by its contemporaries? Superstition was the standard category in Greco-Roman antiquity for defaming "debased" religion, and to situate early Christianity in its Mediterranean milieu it is necessary to understand what this label meant to those who used it...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Patrick Gray

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9781589831001 | Scholars Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: To what extent was early Christianity viewed as superstition by its contemporaries?

Lucifer Ascending: The Occult in Folklore and Popular Culture

By Bill Ellis

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9780813122892 | Univ Pr of Kentucky, January 1, 2004, cover price $40.00

Etruscan Roman Remains and the Old Religion: Gods, Goblins, Divination and Amulets

Product Description: First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Charles Godfrey Leland

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9780710307620 | Routledge, September 1, 2002, cover price $303.95 | About this edition: First published in 2005.

Body Guards: Protective Amulets & Charms

Product Description: A special penny. A poker chip. A rabbitâs foot. A seashell. Many people, even those who insist they are not superstitious, have some sort of icon or amulet just for luck. Belief in the power of these lucky charms, or body guards, is universal...read more

By Desmond Morris

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9781862045729 | Element Books Ltd, October 1, 1999, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Describes the history and superstitious traditions behind one hundred protective charms and amulets including the ankh, garlic, rabbit's foot, and shamrock

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9781862045736, titled "Body Guards: Protective Amulets and Charms" | Element Books Ltd, February 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A special penny.

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