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Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein

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Popular Superstitions, and the Truths Contained Therein

Herbert Mayo

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Ghosts, omens, and healing charms fascinated a scientific age that wanted to explain them. Mayo takes up popular superstitions in a series of frank letters, sifting the nonsense from the odd grains of truth hidden inside old beliefs. A cool, curious look at what people fear and why. Sit in on a Victorian investigation of the things that go bump.

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40 chapters

  1. 1Transcriber’s Notes
  2. 2POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS,
  3. 3PREFATORY REMARKS.
  4. 4CONTENTS.
  5. 5ON POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS.
  6. 6LETTER I.
  7. 7LETTER II.
  8. 8LETTER III.
  9. 9LETTER IV.
  10. 10LETTER V.
  11. 11LETTER VI.
  12. 12LETTER VII.
  13. 13LETTER VIII.
  14. 14LETTER IX.
  15. 15LETTER X.
  16. 16LETTER XI.
  17. 17I. Hypothesis of an Abnormal Psychico-neural Relation as the essence of trance.
  18. 18II. Transposition of the Senses.

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