The Myths and Fables of To-Day
by Samuel Adams Drake
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About this eBook
- Author
- Drake, Samuel Adams, 1833-1905
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Greg Bergquist, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( archive.org/details/americana)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- BF: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Psychology, Philosophy, Psychoanalysis
- Subject
- Superstition
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 44177
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/44177
- Release Date
- November 14, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.BY THE SAME AUTHOR — THE MYTHS AND FABLES OF TO-DAY
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.I A RECKONING WITH TIME
- 5.II THE FOLK-LORE OF CHILDHOOD
- 6.III WEATHER LORE
- 7.IV SIGNS OF ALL SORTS
- 8.V CHARMS TO GOOD LUCK
- 9.VI CHARMS AGAINST DISEASE
- 10.VII OF FATE IN JEWELS
- 11.VIII OF LOVE AND MARRIAGE
- 12.IX OF EVIL OMENS
- 13.X OF HAUNTED HOUSES, PERSONS, AND PLACES
- 14.XI OF PRESENTIMENTS
- 15.XII THE DIVINING-ROD
- 16.XIII WONDERS OF THE PHYSICAL UNIVERSE
- 17.XIV “SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT”
- 18.XV FORTUNE-TELLING, ASTROLOGY, AND PALMISTRY
- 19.FOOTNOTES
- 20.Transcriber’s Notes
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