Author: Webster, Richard

Have you ever rubbed a frog on your freckles? Trivia fans and fun fact fanatics will adore this fascinating encyclopedia from veteran New Age author Richard Webster, who has collected over 500 of the most obscure, curious, and just-plain-freaky superstitions of the Western world. 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, here's a wealth of wonderfully weird beliefs on just about every topic you can imagine. 360 pp. February.