Front matter

Transcriber’s Note

A number of typographical errors have been maintained in the current version of this book. They are marked and the corrected text is shown in the popup. A list of these errors is found at the end of this book.

CURRENT SUPERSTITIONS

COLLECTED FROM THE ORAL TRADITION OF ENGLISH SPEAKING FOLK

EDITED BY

FANNY D. BERGEN

WITH NOTES, AND AN INTRODUCTION BY

WILLIAM WELLS NEWELL

BOSTON AND NEW YORK Published for The American Folk Lore Society by HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY LONDON: DAVID NUTT, 270, 271 STRAND LEIPZIG: OTTO HARRASSOWITZ, QUERSTRASSE, 14 1896

Four hundred and fifty copies printed, of which this is No. ——

Copyright, 1896, By The American Folk-Lore Society.

All rights reserved.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.