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 Triangle, and peculiar practices regarding hiccups, hearses, and hunchbacks. From modern myths to centuries-old lore, The Encyclopedia of Superstitions offers a wealth of wonderfully weird beliefs on just about every topic you can imagine:
Holidays
Birth
Death
Weddings
Colors
Gemstones
Trees
Flowers
Fairies
Weather
Numbers
Animals
Birds
Insects
Household Items
Zodiac Signs
Gambling
The Human Body
Food
Praise:
"[T]his reference makes for compulsive browsing."Publishers Weekly