Festivities and Folklore
This is where you can find Edited Entries on the above Category
- Folk Medicine Handbook from the Early American Republic: or, How to Be a Pow-Wow Doctor
- to Z of Black
- to Z of White
- An Introduction to Christmas Traditions
- Attracting Love With Spells and Charms
- Cauls
- Fly Agaric
- Friday the 13th - Unlucky for Some?
- Groundhog Day
- Horoscopes
- How Not To Go A-Ghost Hunting
- In comes I! Mumming, Pace-egging and Souling Folk Plays
- Jack-in-the-Green Celebrations, Hastings, UK
- Johnny Appleseed - Paradoxical Frontiersman
- Legends and Lore of the Rowan Tree
- Mooning and Paying Tribute - Cologne's Monument to NASA
- Origins of Days of the Week
- Scary Tales for Halloween
- Shroven on the Isle of Wight
- Shrunken Heads
- Spells and Customs for Achieving Happiness
- Superstitions
- Bogeyman
- Chinese Animal Zodiac
- Easter Bunny
- Full Moons - What's in a Name?
- Hooden Horse
- Influence of Fly Agaric on the Iconography of Father Christmas
- Koh-i-noor Diamond
- Legend of the Lorelei
- Moons of Neptune - Facts, Fables and Folklore
- Views on Creation
- Walpurgis Night
- What is Tragedy?
- When is a Turtle a Calendar?
- Why is Jesus Christ an Apple Tree?
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