<p>Have you ever rubbed a frog on your freckles? </p> <p>Trivia fans and fun fact fanatics will adore this fascinating, flickable encyclopedia of superstitions! Richard Webster presents over five hundred of the most obscure, curious, and just-plain-freaky superstitions of the Western world. <br /><br />Discover batty beliefs about baldness, beans, and the Bermuda Triangle, and peculiar practices regarding hiccups, hearses, and hunchbacks. From modern myths to centuries-old lore, <em>The Encyclopedia of Superstitions</em> offers a wealth of wonderfully weird beliefs on just about every topic you can imagine: <br /><br />Holidays <br />Birth   <br />Death <br />Weddings <br />Colors <br />Gemstones   <br />Trees <br />Flowers <br />Fairies <br />Weather <br />Numbers <br />Animals   <br />Birds <br />Insects <br />Household Items <br />Zodiac Signs <br />Gambling <br />The Human Body <br />Food </p> <p>"[T]his reference makes for compulsive browsing."-Publishers Weekly </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>