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Superstitions & Folk Belief

Miscellanies

by John Aubrey

The only book Aubrey published in his lifetime, a collection on omens, dreams, apparitions, second sight, charms and other 'hermetick philosophy'. It records many English beliefs of the later seventeenth century, including horseshoes nailed to thresholds against witches.

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