Features modern practices, blessing someone who sneezes, saving wedding cake, wearing St. Christopher medals while traveling, as well as centuries-old beliefs. Discover how Friday the 13th, the Bermuda Triangle, ravens and black cats became so unlucky.

Containing more that two thousand supersitions of Britain ranging over the past six hundred years, and extending down to the present day,this book demonstrates that superstitions are world-wide and inherent in all peoples of the world in exactly identical forms of fear and avoidance.

Have you ever rubbed a frog on your freckles? Trivia fans and fun fact fanatics will adore this fascinating, flickable encyclopedia of superstitions! Richard Webster presents over five hundred of the most obscure, curious, and just-plain-freaky superstitions of the Western world. Discover batty beliefs about baldness, beans, and the Bermuda

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Praise for the previous editions:"Clearly the best reference work on the subject now available."