The Magic of the Horse-shoe, with other folk-lore notes

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PREFACE

CONTENTS

THE MAGIC OF THE HORSE-SHOE

FORTUNE AND LUCK

THE FOLK-LORE OF COMMON SALT [252]

THE OMENS OF SNEEZING

DAYS OF GOOD AND EVIL OMEN

SUPERSTITIOUS DEALINGS WITH ANIMALS I. RATS AND MICE AS AVENGERS

THE LUCK OF ODD NUMBERS

FOOTNOTES

TOPICAL INDEX

ARMS OF THE TOWN OF OAKHAM, RUTLANDSHIRE, ENGLAND.

[From an Old Engraving.]


THE
MAGIC OF THE HORSE-SHOE

With Other Folk-Lore Notes

BY
ROBERT MEANS LAWRENCE, M. D.

Imprimatur of the Riverside Press

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1898

COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY ROBERT MEANS LAWRENCE.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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