Author: Philip F. Waterman
Edition Cited in The Compleat Witch
Publisher: Alfred A. Knoph
City: New York
Year: 1929
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Pages: 308
Binding: Hardback
Size: 6 x 8 3/4
Binding: Hardback
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Table of Contents
I The Meaning of Luck 3
II The First Great Heresy 20
III The Demon Lover 24
IV The Divine Lover 35
V The Dance of the Gods and the Secret of the Mistletoe 50
VI The Obscene Saint 66
VII The Magic Wand 72
VIII The Magic Fountain and the Bridal Bouquet 93
IX The Apple of Love 101
X The Door of Life and the Threshold Superstition 105
XI The Fear of Ghosts 111
XII The Tombstone, the Rock, and the Mineral Superstition 120
XIII The Evil Eye 133
XIV The Amulet 144
XV The Magic Formula 150
XVI The Crescent, the Star, and the Cross 157
XVII The Fear of the Dark and the Legend of Santa Claus 174
XVIII The Carnival and the Saturnalia 191
XIX The Queen of Heaven 199
XX The Fish and the Mermaid 207
XXI The Mystic Numbers, Three, Seven, and Nine 212
XXII The Men who Invented Sin 219
XXIII The Master 230
XXIV The Slave 248
XXV The Inside Story of Hell 256
XXVI The Legend of Lilith 277
XXVII The Spirits Perish 285
Bibliography 291
Index follows 292
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Title: The Story of Superstition
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Year: 1929
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“The Old Conventional Idea of the Union of Sun and Crescent”
“Mysterious Hieroglyphs involving the Crescent Idea”
Misc. Quotes
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“The earliest form of devotion known to students of comparative religions is the worship of devils. Commerce with the putative world “beyond the veil” began as an attempt to improve human luck, which meant, of course, the averting of ill luck or evil circumstances. Even in this age of what we are pleased to call enlightenment, a time of calamity or danger usually evokes a piteous cry for some sort of communication with the supernatural world. This need for supernormal assistance is felt, not only when a ship begins to sink of the Grim Reaper makes his appearance in a family, but also when a comet shines in the sky, and the superstitious quake for fear of the harm it must of necessity portend.”
“Why should the ghost always act as an agent of mischief? Why are folks unable to enjoy the companionship of the departed, just as they did when the spirits were incarnate? Why is it that the very thought that a ghost may be present in a room will almost invariably elicit the emotion of terror? Let your cultivated sceptic sit alone at midnight, and let him read a story of haunting in the privacy of his study, and, with all his presumptive knowledge of the origin and history of the belief in ghosts, he will be afraid.”
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