A Dictionary of Superstitions - Iona Opie, Moira Tatem

A Dictionary of Superstitions by Iona Opie and Moira Tatem I thought I came from a superstitious family - until I got this book and saw the hundreds and hundreds of superstitions that someone, somewhere in this country, lives by! This is a very comprehensive large-format paperback of 500 or so pages detailing the quite amazing array of folk beliefs, omens, and portents alive today Presented in dictionary format, you can look up, for example, 'cat' and discover the wide range of beliefs surrounding this one creature - that blacks cats are both lucky and unlucky; that to buy a cat is unlucky; to shut one away by mistake will raise a ...