This Is A New Release Of The Original 1895 Edition.

Other ISBNs in this set include: 0548808317.

Other ISBNs in this set include: 0548810346.

THIS 48 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Evil Eye The Origins and Practices of Superstition, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766132420.

1895. A review of the forms and uses of sympathetic magic throughout the world. The story of superstition or everyday magic. Contents: Introduction; Sympathetic magic; Totems, portents, tree-worship; Symbols and Amulets; Gorgoneion; Crescents, horns, horseshoes; Touch, hands, gestures; The Cross; Mano Pantea; Cimaruta, Sirene, tablets; Cabalistic writing - magical formulae; Spitting, incantation, and other protective acts - pixies; Appendices (Celestial Mother, Gargoyles, divination, incantation, etc.) Copiously illustrated.

THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Evil Eye The Origins and Practices of Superstition, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766132420.

THIS 50 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Evil Eye The Origins and Practices of Superstition, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766132420.

THIS 50 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Evil Eye The Origins and Practices of Superstition, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766132420.

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THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Evil Eye The Origins and Practices of Superstition, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766132420.

THIS 50 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Evil Eye The Origins and Practices of Superstition, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766132420.

THIS 28 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Evil Eye The Origins and Practices of Superstition, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766132420.

THIS 34 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Evil Eye The Origins and Practices of Superstition, by Frederick Thomas Elworthy. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 0766132420.

1895. A review of the forms and uses of sympathetic magic throughout the world. The story of superstition or everyday magic. Contents: Introduction; Sympathetic magic; Totems, portents, tree-worship; Symbols and Amulets; Gorgoneion; Crescents, horns, horseshoes; Touch, hands, gestures; The Cross; Mano Pantea; Cimaruta, Sirene, tablets; Cabalistic writing - magical formulae; Spitting, incantation, and other protective acts - pixies; Appendices (Celestial Mother, Gargoyles, divination, incantation, etc.) Copiously illustrated.