Download or read book The Wonderful World of Superstition, Prophecy, and Luck written by Leonard R. N. Ashley and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1984 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enjoyable book about occult "matter": the first half is devoted largely to folk beliefs (the people's magic, charms and incantations, cures and omens and wonder working carried out by ordinary people according to their own rules); the second half takes up "educated" forms of the occult (pseudo sciences developed and practical and studied by learned men down through the ages).