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Superstition in Great Britain

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136: 84: 193:, England, there is a popular superstition that a ring formed from a piece of silver collected at Communion provides a cure for all convulsions and fits. Another British superstition holds that a silver ring would cure fits if it is crafted from five sixpences collected from five separate bachelors and delivered by the hand of a bachelor to a bachelor 107:, an English poet, viewed superstition as an old tradition left behind by previous civilizations. He said in 1825 that these beliefs were "as old as England" and that, although being difficult to trace historically, superstitions are "as common to every memory as the seasons, and as familiar to children even as the rain and spring flowers." He said: 166:
The most well-known British table superstition is not to seat thirteen people at a table, and if salt is spilled, a pinch must be thrown over the left shoulder into the eyes of the Devil. Crossed knives at the table signify a conflict, while a white tablecloth left on a table overnight signifies that
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Superstitions were documented in early modern Britain history. This task was a cultural and intellectual obsession in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Scholars, preachers, and educated ladies devoted their lives to collecting odd items from a way of life they thought was on the point of extinction.
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Superstition lives longer than books; it is engrafted on the human mind till it becomes a part of its existence; and is carried from generation to generation on the stream of eternity, with the proudest of fames, untroubled with the insect encroachments of oblivion which books are infested
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According to Frederick Alexander Durham writing in 1892, the Britons at the time were in some ways just as superstitious as their ancestors. According to the Andrew D. McCarthy, the finding and identification of more than 200
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to ward off bad luck, two-fifths (39%) cross their fingers for good luck, 16% own a lucky charm, and 15% of them believe the number '13' is unlucky.
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fighters to rely on pictures drawn from beliefs about the devil and witches or to utilize omens to argue for the wrongdoings of their opponents.
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reinforces the view that early modern Britain was a superstitious society, where evil could be fended off with a mixture of urine and hair.
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was given more impetus due to the general agitation of religious ideas and the propensity of
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England suggest that English kings often rejected their astrologers' forecasts and counsel.
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society, and the superstitions were documented at the time. The belief in witches, the
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Magic and Superstition in Europe: A Concise History from Antiquity to the Present
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The Lone-star of Liberia: Being the Outcome of Reflections on Our Own People
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It is believed in Britain that the Crown and Britain will collapse if the
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a coffin will soon be needed. Many women believed that stirring food "
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Witchcraft, Magic and Superstition in England, 1640–70
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Perceptions of religious imagery in natural phenomena
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Jubilee and Munin, two of the Tower's ravens in 2016
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is the most popular superstition in Britain, with "
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Index

Superstition in Britain
Great Britain
Early modern Britain
superstitious
devil
ghosts
modern Britain
Ipsos
Ben Schott
Schott's Almanac
knocking on wood
crossing fingers

witch bottles
devil
John Clare
medieval

ravens of the Tower of London
Charles II
John Flamsteed
Royal observatory
Greenwich
widdershins
Dorset
Great Malvern
water cure
Berkshire
smith
Witchcraft in early modern Britain

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