Current Superstitions Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk
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EBOOK CURRENT SUPERSTITIONS ***
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CURRENT SUPERSTITIONS
COLLECTED FROM THE ORAL
TRADITION OF ENGLISH
SPEAKING FOLK
EDITED BY
FANNY D. BERGEN
_WITH NOTES, AND AN INTRODUCTION BY_
WILLIAM WELLS NEWELL
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
Published for The American Folk Lore Society by
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 270, 271 STRAND
LEIPZIG: OTTO HARRASSOWITZ, QUERSTRASSE, 14
1896
Four hundred and fifty copies printed,
of which this is No. ----
Copyright, 1896,
BY THE AMERICAN FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.
_All rights reserved._
_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U.S.A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H.O. Houghton and Company.
PREFACE.
In the "Popular Science Monthly" for July, 1886, there was printed a
somewhat miscellaneous assortment of customs and superstitions under the
title: _Animal and Plant Lore of Children_.
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