Superstitions and Their Sources
Superstitions and Their Sources
When the existence of miracles is acknowledged, there will always be a tendency to regard every singular and unaccountable happening as a miracle; that is to say, as…
Superstitions and Their Sources: Cuba
The persistence of the most cruel and unnatural practices of old-time sorcery is illustrated by the fact that only a few years ago, in the…
Superstitions and Their Sources: Boot
In the next chapter of his work, De Boot, while extolling the remedial power of a certain group of stones, insists upon the falsity of many…
Superstitions and Their Sources: Syriac
In the seventh, eighth, and ninth centuries, a new literature on this subject made its appearance, probably in Asia Minor. Some of the…
Superstitions and Their Sources: Thomas
A most interesting medieval treatise on the virtues of precious stones forms part of the De rerum natura of Thomas de Cantimpre…
Superstitions and Their Sources: Dolce
Among literary deceptions one of the boldest was that practised in the early part of the seventeenth century by Ludovico Dolce. This writer…