Luck and Talismans
Subtitle: A Chapter of Popular Superstition
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780548053720
Subjects: Folklore & Mythology; Social Science / Folklore & Mythology; Sociology
First sentence: IN an age when every portent in the heavens, every convulsion of the earth, every disturbance in the depths of the sea was thought to be not only a manifestation of the power of those omnipotent beings who ruled the destinies of men, but evidence also of their interest in mortal affairs, and an indication of their wishes, it is not surprising to find evidence that the means whereby the divine will had been made known was, if of a permanent nature, treasured by its recipients, as proof whereby doubters might be confounded.