Black Cats and Evil Eyes

by Chloe Rhodes

  pregnancy, cravings during ref 1

  Proverbs ref 1, ref 2

  Proverbs of Alfred ref 1

  Provincial Glossary (Grose) ref 1

  Provincial Glossary of Popular Superstitions, A (Grose) ref 1

  purse, as gift ref 1

  Puruvaras ref 1

  Purvis, Admiral ref 1

  rabbit’s foot ref 1, ref 2

  ravens ref 1

  redheads ref 1, ref 2

  reflexology ref 1

  reiki ref 1

  Remains of Early English Poetry (Hazlitt) ref 1

  Roberts, George ref 1

  robins ref 1

  rocking chairs ref 1

  Rural Life in England (Howitt) ref 1

  sailors:

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  and earrings ref 1

  superstitious nature of ref 1

  and women on shipboard ref 1

  St Gotthard Pass ref 1

  St John’s wort ref 1

  St Lawrence ref 1

  St Thomas ref 1

  salt:

  in spells and holy water ref 1, ref 2

  spilling ref 1

  to ward off evil ref 1

  Samuel, 2nd Book of ref 1

  Satan, see Devil

  Satyricon (Petronius) ref 1, ref 2

  scissors:

  in folklore ref 1

  as gift ref 1

  on New Year’s Day ref 1

  as protection against witchcraft ref 1

  Scot, Reginald ref 1

  Select Cases of Conscience Touching Witches (Gaule) ref 1

  Set/Seth ref 1

  Shakespeare, William ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  Shakti ref 1

  ships:

  witches cause wrecking of ref 1

  women aboard ref 1

  shivering ref 1

  shoelaces:

  loose or broken ref 1

  right versus left ref 1

  shoes, on table ref 1

  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight ref 1

  Sirius ref 1

  skull, drinking from ref 1

  sneezing ref 1

  soul:

  of babies ref 1

  breath linked with ref 1, ref 2

  earthbound ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4

  and mirrors ref 1

  rebirth of ref 1

  of sailors ref 1

  of sinners ref 1

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  and yawning ref 1

  Spectator ref 1

  spiders ref 1

  in Christian folklore ref 1

  spirits, evil ref 1, ref 2, ref 3, ref 4, ref 5, ref 6

  in animal form ref 1

  and bells ref 1

  and candles ref 1

  and circles ref 1

  and corpses ref 1

  and crossroads ref 1

  funerals as beacons for ref 1

  and plague ref 1

  spitting ref 1

  and Evil Eye ref 1

  and redheads ref 1

  and shoes ref 1

  sprites ref 1

  staircase, passing on ref 1

  Stoker, Bram ref 1

  Styx ref 1

  suicide ref 1

  superstition:

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  definition of ref 1

  rooted in religion ref 1

  swallows ref 1

  farmers’ beliefs concerning ref 1

  Swan Lake ref 1

  swan’s feather ref 1

  Swift, Jonathan ref 1

  sympathetic magic ref 1

  table, shoes on ref 1

  Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich ref 1

  Temptation and Fall ref 1

  Tennyson, Alfred, Lord ref 1

  Theocritus ref 1

  Theophrastus ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

  thirteen ref 1, ref 2

  and anti-Semitism ref 1

  see also Friday: 13th

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  three, as frequency of bad things ref 1

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  tide, ebbing, and death ref 1

  Times, The ref 1

  toads ref 1

  and bad luck ref 1

  to ward off plague ref 1

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  tombstones, see graves

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  ‘Touch wood’ ref 1

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  trolls ref 1

  True Legend of St Dunstan and the Devil, The (Flight) ref 1

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  Wagstaff, Simon (Jonathan Swift) ref 1

  Waits, Tom ref 1

  wallet, as gift ref 1

  wassailing ref 1

  water:

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  and moon ref 1

  spitting before crossing ref 1

  see also bridges

  Watson, Rev. Samuel ref 1

  Webster, Noah Jr ref 1

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  werewolves ref 1

  Weyer, Johann ref 1

  Wicca ref 1, ref 2

  see also witches

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  William of Waddington ref 1

  Winter’s Tale, A (Shakespeare) ref 1

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  witches ref 1, ref 2, ref 3

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  and cats ref 1

  and cutlery ref 1

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  and moving widdershins ref 1

  and ravens ref 1

  and rocking chairs ref 1

  scissors as protection against ref 1

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  and toads ref 1

  and Witchfinder General ref 1

  see also Wicca

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  women on shipboard ref 1

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