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Superstitions & Folk Belief

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The Story of the World's Most Notorious Superstition

by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer

A cultural history of the fear of thirteen and of Friday the thirteenth, tracing their emergence and popularisation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lachenmeyer separates the documented record from the many invented origin stories.

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