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    Jewish magic and superstition a study in folk religion /

    Jewish magic and superstition a study in folk religion / by Trachtenberg, Joshua, 1904-

    Published 2004
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    A to Z world superstitions and folklore 175 countries : spirit worship, curses, mystical characters, folk tales, burial and the dead, animals, food, marriage, good luck, bad luck, totems and amulets and ancestor spirits /

    A to Z world superstitions and folklore 175 countries : spirit worship, curses, mystical characters, folk tales, burial and the dead, animals, food, marriage, good luck, bad luck, totems and amulets and ancestor spirits / by Putzi-Ortiz, Sibylla

    Published 2009
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    Fearful spirits, reasoned follies the boundaries of superstition in late medieval Europe /

    Fearful spirits, reasoned follies the boundaries of superstition in late medieval Europe / by Bailey, Michael David, 1971-

    Published 2013
    Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the meanings of medieval superstition -- The weight of tradition -- Superstition in court and cloister -- The cardinal, the confessor, and the chancellor -- Dilemmas of discernment -- Witchcraft and its discontents -- Toward disenchantment?.…”
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    The people's Peking man popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China /

    The people's Peking man popular science and human identity in twentieth-century China / by Schmalzer, Sigrid

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…"From 'dragon bones' to scientific research" : Peking Man and popular paleoanthropology in pre-1949 China -- "A united front against superstition" : science dissemination, 1940-1971 -- "The content of human" : in search of human identity, 1940-1971 -- "Labor created science" : the class politics of scientific knowledge, 1940-1971 -- "Presumptuous guests usurp the hosts" : dissemination and participation, 1971-1978 -- "Springtime for science," but what a garden : mystery, superstition, and fanatics in the post-Máo Era -- "From legend to science," and back again? …”
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