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European superstitions routinely warned against entering a fairy ring. Catalog of dictionaries, word books, and philological texts. For your amusement or inspiration, or for livening up any speech, proverbs have an irresistible power. Old colony correctional center free message boards and. The scandanavian imagination inspires our culture in hundreds of ways, from our words for days and months to customs common in most of our holidays to popular phenomena such as harry potter and the tolkien legends. Jettatura the casting of an evil eye confirmed her superstitious faith in herself. Buy cassell dictionary of witchcraft cassell reference reprint by pickering, david isbn.
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