Black Cats and Evil Eyes (20 page)

‘limbo of infants’
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Lincoln, Abraham
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Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
(Diogenes Laërtius)
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Lives of the Saints
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lizards
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loaf, upside down
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see also
bread

Locke, William
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Lohengrin
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Loki
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Love for Love
(Congreve)
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lying, and tongue-biting
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magic, sympathetic
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magpies
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Malleus Maleficarum
(Kramer)
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,
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Manning, Robert
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marital fidelity
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Martin Chuzzlewit
(Dickens)
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Mary, Virgin
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,
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,
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matches
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,
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Matthew, Gospel of
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May, buying brooms in
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mediums
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Memorials of Transactions
. . . (Bannatyne)
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Michelangelo
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milk
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African beliefs concerning
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Minerva
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mirrors:

breaking
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covering, after death
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and Lady of Shalott
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money
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and itching palms
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and purses and wallets
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moon:

cycles of
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,
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gravitational effects of
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,
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influence of, over bodily fluids
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light of
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Moresin, Thomas
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cutting, at sea
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Natural History
(Pliny)
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Nelson, Horatio
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New Year’s Day
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and scissors
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Notes and Queries
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Odin
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Old Statistical Account of Scotland, The
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Old Wives’ Tale, The (Peele)
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‘One for sorrow . . .’
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Othello
(Shakespeare)
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Ovid
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owls
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Papatus
(Moresin)
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Parsifal
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Peele, George
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pennies, picking up
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,
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Pepys, Samuel
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,
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Perkins, William
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Persephone
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Petronius
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,
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picture, falling from wall
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Piers Plowman
(Langland)
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‘Pillow Magic’
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pins:

in hexes
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picking up
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plague
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,
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Black Death
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,
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bubonic
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,
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Great, of London
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,
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,
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toad to ward off
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Pliny the Elder
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Plutarch
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Poetical Description of Songbirds, A
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pregnancy, cravings during
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Proverbs
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,
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Proverbs of Alfred
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Provincial Glossary
(Grose)
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Provincial Glossary of Popular Superstitions, A
(Grose)
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purse, as gift
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Puruvaras
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Purvis, Admiral
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ravens
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redheads
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,
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reflexology
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reiki
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Remains of Early English Poetry
(Hazlitt)
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Roberts, George
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robins
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rocking chairs
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Rural Life in England
(Howitt)
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and birds
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and earrings
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superstitious nature of
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and women on shipboard
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St Gotthard Pass
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St John’s wort
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St Lawrence
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St Thomas
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salt:

in spells and holy water
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,
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spilling
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to ward off evil
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Samuel, 2nd Book of
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Satan,
see
Devil

Satyricon
(Petronius)
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,
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scissors:

in folklore
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as gift
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on New Year’s Day
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as protection against witchcraft
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Scot, Reginald
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Select Cases of Conscience Touching Witches
(Gaule)
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Set/Seth
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Shakespeare, William
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Shakti
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ships:

witches cause wrecking of
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women aboard
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shivering
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shoelaces:

loose or broken
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right versus left
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shoes, on table
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Sirius
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skull, drinking from
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sneezing
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soul:

of babies
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breath linked with
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,
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earthbound
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,
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,
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and mirrors
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rebirth of
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of sailors
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of sinners
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transmigration of
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and yawning
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Spectator
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spiders
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in Christian folklore
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spirits, evil
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,
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in animal form
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and bells
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and candles
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and circles
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and corpses
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and crossroads
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funerals as beacons for
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and plague
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spitting
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and Evil Eye
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and redheads
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and shoes
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sprites
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staircase, passing on
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Stoker, Bram
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Styx
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suicide
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superstition:

and Church
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,
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,
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definition of
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rooted in religion
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swallows
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farmers’ beliefs concerning
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Swan Lake
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swan’s feather
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Swift, Jonathan
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sympathetic magic
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Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
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Temptation and Fall
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Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
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Theocritus
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Theophrastus
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,
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,
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thirteen
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,
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and anti-Semitism
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see also
Friday: 13th

Those Superstitions
(Igglesden)
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three, as frequency of bad things
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thunderbirds
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tide, ebbing, and death
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Times, The
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toads
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and bad luck
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to ward off plague
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toadstone, carrying
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tombstones, see graves

tongue, biting
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‘Touch wood’
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Traversari, Ambrogio
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Trevelyan, Marie
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triangles
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trolls
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True Legend of St Dunstan and the Devil, The
(Flight)
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vampires
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Venidad, The
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Vergil, Polydore
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Vesta
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Virgil
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Virgin Mary
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voodoo
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Vulgar Errors
(Browne)
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Wagstaff, Simon (Jonathan Swift)
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Waits, Tom
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wallet, as gift
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wassailing
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water:

holy
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,
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,
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from human skull
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and moon
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spitting before crossing
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see also
bridges

Watson, Rev. Samuel
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Webster, Noah Jr
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Wellington, Duke of
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werewolves
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Weyer, Johann
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Wicca
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,
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see also
witches

Wildlife and Countryside Act
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William of Waddington
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Winter’s Tale, A
(Shakespeare)
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wishes, and crossed fingers
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witches
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,
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and brooms
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and cats
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and cutlery
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Czech festival concerning
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and eggshells
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elder wands of
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familiars of
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,
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and hair and nails
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,
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home defended against
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hysterical fear of
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mark of
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and moving widdershins
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and ravens
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and rocking chairs
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scissors as protection against
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shapeshifting by
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,
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and toads
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and Witchfinder General
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see also
Wicca

Witchfinder General
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women on shipboard
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Wonderful Year, The
(Locke)
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wood, touching/knocking on
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Zeus
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zodiac
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Zoroaster
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