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  • A postcard illustrating a variety of good luck charms. Chromolithograph.
  • Folio 31 recto, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • A lady seeking knowledge of her lover from a wizard. Process print after Sir E. Burne-Jones.
  • The pains of gout could be eased by boiling rosemary leaves and tying them, wrapped in linen, round the afflicted members : Encyclopaedia of Superstitions, E. & M. Radford : 'Zyloric' Allopurinol.
  • A postcard wishing good luck illustrated by various lucky charms. Chromolithograph.
  • 'Actifed' Compound Linctus : for cough with or without congestion especially in bronchitis.
  • A credulous congregation listening to a sermon by a fiery preacher. Engraving by T. Cook, 1798, after W. Hogarth.
  • The egg story : 6 / [British Egg Information Service].
  • Folio 41r, Wellcome MS Persian 466.
  • Satan's invisible world discovered, or, A choice collection of modern relations proving evidently, against the atheists of this present age, that there are devils. Spirits, witches, and apparitions, from authentic records, and attestations of witnesses of undoubted veracity : To which is added, the marvellous history of Major Weir and his sister, the witches of Bargarran, Pittenweem, Calder, &c / By Mr. George Sinclair.
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