Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Superstitions written by Edwin Radford and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1996-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing more that two thousand supersitions of Britain ranging over the past six hundred years, and extending down to the present day,this book demonstrates that superstitions are world-wide and inherent in all peoples of the world in exactly identical forms of fear and avoidance.