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Superstitions

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

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    Comment on se soigne aujourd'hui : remèdes de bonne femme / par les Docteurs Cabanès et Barraud.

    Cabanès, Augustin, 1862-1928. | Date: 1907
    • Books

    "We didn't know aught" : a study of sexuality, superstition and death in women's lives in Lincolnshire during the 1930s, '40s and '50s / Maureen Sutton ; [foreword by Morag McGill].

    Sutton, Maureen, 1942- | Date: 1992
    • Books

    Sir Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia epidemica / edited by Robin Robbins.

    Browne, Thomas, Sir, 1605-1682. | Date: 1981
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    El hechizado : medicina, alquimia y superstición en la corte de Carlos II (1661-1700) / Mar Rey Bueno.

    Rey Bueno, Mar. | Date: 1998
    • Books

    La sorcellerie des campagnes / Charles Lancelin.

    Lancelin, Charles, 1852- | Date: [date of publication not identified]
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