Credulities Past and Present.

INCLUDING

THE SEA AND SEAMEN, MINERS, AMULETS AND TALISMANS,
RINGS, WORD AND LETTER DIVINATION, NUMBERS,
TRIALS, EXORCISING AND BLESSING OF ANIMALS,
BIRDS, EGGS, AND LUCK

"What stronger pleasure is there with mankind, or what do they earlier learn, or
longer retain, than the love of hearing and relating things strange and incredible?
How wonderful a thing is the Love of Wondering and of raising Wonder! 'Tis the
delight of children to hear tales that they shiver at, and the vice of old age to abound
in strange stories of time past. We come into the world wondering at everything; and
when our wonder at common things is over, we seek something new to wonder at.
Our last scene is to tell wonders of our own, to all who will believe them. And
amidst all this 'tis well if Truth comes off but moderately tainted."-SHAFTESBURY'S
"CHARACTERISTICS.'

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 67-24355