Credulities Past and Present: Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, Numbers, Trials, Exorc

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Excerpt from Credulities Past and Present: Including the Sea and Seamen, Miners, Amulets and Talismans, Rings, Word and Letter Divination, Numbers, Trials, Exorcising and Blessing of Animals, Birds, Eggs, and Luck Possibly your patience will be tried by predilections of my own for particular subjects, which may not prove so attractive to you as they have been pleasant to myself. It is, also, more than probable that there are omissions, which have been rendered inevitable by the confined compass of this book. But I trust for your forbearance, inasmuch as Ihave, perhaps, spared you a long and wearisome perusal of time-worn books on occult lore, that may have long slumbered, neglected, on their shelves, and the study of which may not be recreative to general readers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.