Book Description

Hardback. 494pp. Reprint. A-Z of superstitions, divinations, spells, cures, charms, signs, omens, rituals, and taboos. Entries are detailed and include entries for cats, birds, birds, amber, rainbows, myrtle, umbrellas, red hair, knocking, ravens, new moons, milk, thirteen, weather, thresholds and many more. Also includes an analytical index. One tiny tear to the edge of the dust jacket else very clean and neat.
Author Opie, Iona and Moira Tatem (editors)
Date 1990
Binding Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Condition Very good copy in like dust jacket

Price: £12.00

Offered by C L Hawley

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