Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vular Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions by John Brand
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Observations on Popular Antiquities Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vular Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions by John Brand, published in 1841. This fascinating three volume almanac of British superstitions and customs was in fact a heavily revised and annotated version of Henry Bourne’s Antiquitates vulgares (1725). The almanac concerns the origins and practices of British customs and ceremonies including marriage customs, death rites, belief in fairies, witchcraft, omens, and divination. All three volumes quarter leather with marbled paper and light shelfwear to corners and ends.
