Fletcher Bascom Dresslar

Superstition and Education

• Author(s): Fletcher Bascom Dressler

• Categories: Education

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1907
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Reports of the Department of the Interior

• Author(s): United States. Department of the Interior

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1908
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Statistics of Public, Society, and School Libraries Having 5,000 Volumes and Over in 1908

• Author(s): United States. Office of Education

• Categories: Libraries

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1909
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• Publisher: Unknown

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Magical Medicine

• Author(s): Wayland D. Hand

• Categories: Social Science

• Type: Book
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• Published: 2023-04-28
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• Publisher: Univ of California Press

"Distilling baby's first tear into the eye of a blind man to make him see"; "Plucking herbs upward for emetics and downward for purgatives"; "Stroking one's goiter with a dead man's hand to make the growth shrivel away"--these are not beliefs and customs found among primitive peoples in remote parts of the world but are examples of hundreds of items of magical medicine found in Professor Hand's remarkable collection of essays dealing with this neglected field in twentieth-century Europe and America. Fantasy and imagination still have free reign in people's lives, more than any of us will admit. In a time when science is preeminent, irrational thinking ca lay hold on the mid of man as much as...

Bulletin

• Categories: Education

• Type: Book
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• Published: 1911
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• Publisher: Unknown

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