Current Superstitions

Current Superstitions

by Fanny Dickerson Bergen

No matter how enlightened, chances are you've been raised around superstitious lore of one kind or another. Fanny Dickerson Bergen was one of the original researchers of North American oral traditions relating to such key life events and experiences as babyhood and childhood, marriage, wishes and dreams, luck, warts and cures, death omens and mortuary customs, and "such truck," as Huck Finn would say. You'll be surprised at how many of these old saws you'll know. Here's a quote from Chapter One, Babyhood:Monday’s child is fair of face,Tuesday’s child is full of grace,Wednesday’s child is sour and sad,Thursday’s child is merry and glad,Friday’s child is loving and giving,Saturday’s child must work for a living;But the child that is born on the Sabbath dayIs blithe and bonny, good and gay.--Baldwinsville, N. Y. All of these readings are as short as 5 minutes and no longer than 15 minutes, with plenty of pithy one-liners in the form of proverbs, always given with the locale they came from in Canada or the United States (with clear influences in British tradition). (summary by Denny Sayers)

Listen/Download Audiobook

Read by:
00:00
Playback Speed 1.0
00:00
  • Select Speed

Related books

Life of Alfred the Great Cover image

Life of Alfred the Great by Bishop of Sherbourne Asser

A life of King Alfred of England originally composed in Latin, possibly sometime around 888 A.D. by the Monk and Bishop Asser, although some scholars...

Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac Cover image

Chronicles of Canada Volume 07 - The Fighting Governer: A Chronicle of Frontenac by Charles William Colby

The Canada to which Frontenac came in 1672 was no longer the infant colony it had been when Richelieu founded the Company of One Hundred Associates....

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth  Cover image

The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth by T.D. Bonner

As a young man, Beckwourth moved to the American West, first making connections with fur traders in St. Louis. As a fur trapper, he lived with the Cro...

Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky Cover image

Daniel Boone, the pioneer of Kentucky by John Stevens Cabot Abbott

This is a detailed biography of the life and adventures of Daniel Boone. His accomplishments are brushed over in history classes these days and not gi...

Bible (Reina Valera) NT 04: Evangelio según San Juan Cover image

Bible (Reina Valera) NT 04: Evangelio según San Juan by Reina-Valera

El Evangelio según Juan es un libro de la Biblia en el Nuevo Testamento que contiene la historia de la vida de Jesucristo. El apóstol Juan el evangeli...

 Domestic Manners of the Americans Cover image

Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Trollope

Domestic Manners of the Americans is a 2-volume 1832 travel book by Frances Milton Trollope, which follows her travels through America and her residen...

Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 3) Cover image

Abraham Lincoln: A History (Volume 3) by John George Nicolay

Abraham Lincoln: A History is an 1890 ten-volume account of the life and times of Abraham Lincoln, written by John Nicolay and John Hay, who were his...

In Flanders Fields Cover image

In Flanders Fields by John McCrae

LibriVox volunteers bring you seven different readings of John McCrae’s In Flanders Fields, a weekly poetry project. (Summary by Annie Coleman)

The Fireside Chats Cover image

The Fireside Chats by Franklin D. Roosevelt

The fireside chats were a series of the evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933...

The Gray Mills of Farley Cover image

The Gray Mills of Farley by Sarah Orne Jewett

As contemporary today as it was over a century ago, this relatively unsentimental tale of labor relations still packs a punch.

Reviews for Current Superstitions

No reviews posted or approved, yet...