Current Superstitions
Author: first_name:  Fanny Dickerson
last_name: Bergen
Language: English
Year: 1896

No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one of the original researchers of North American oral traditions relating to such key life events and experiences as babyhood and childhood, marriage, wishes and dreams, luck, warts and cures, death omens and mortuary customs, and "such truck," as Huck Finn would say.<br /><br />
You'll be surprised at how many of these old saws you'll know. Here's a quote from