Moralia

by Plutarch

PLUTARCH'S knowledge of Egyptology was not profound.

The golden bough

by James George Frazer, Theodor Herzl Gaster

I. Diana and Virbius.-Who does not know Turner's picture of the Golden Bough ?

Essays

by Francis Bacon

1579 February. His father dies, and (in June) he returns to England.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

by Mark Twain

YOU DON'T know about me, without you have read a book by the name of "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," but that ain't no m...

Ab urbe condita

by Titus Livius

At the beginning of the following year the consuls and praetors balloted for their provinces.

Il pendolo di Foucault

by Umberto Eco

That was when I saw the Pendulum.

Historia Alexandri Magni

by Quintus Curtius Rufus

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Myth and superstition in Spanish-Caribbean literature

by Conference of Hispanists (5th 1982 University of the West Indies, Mona Campus)

Religion and superstition in Latin literature

by Alan H. Sommerstein

Nordic Terrors

by Robert William Rix

The Paranormal in the Bible and in Old Norse Literature -sup...

by Nils Bjorn Kvastad

Jewish magic and superstition

by Joshua Trachtenberg

THE anomalous position of the Jew in the modern world is but a latter-day version of the fate that has dogged his footst...

Cross your fingers, spit in your hat

by Alvin Schwartz, Glen Rounds

The Works Of Thomas De Quincey

by Thomas De Quincey

Tell my horse

by Zora Neale Hurston

Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular su...

by Thomas Wright

The wedding-ring

by Joseph Maskell

Pagan Survivals, Superstitions And Popular Cultures In Early...

by Bernadette Filotas

Essays on subjects connected with the literature, popular su...

by Wright, Thomas

Essays on Subjects Connected with the Literature, Popular Su...

by Thomas Wright