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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
Prabāda-saṃskāra-kusaṃskāra	Prabīra Ghosha	Thesaurus of Bengali proverbs and superstitions.	OL1046947W
Buckland's Book of Gypsy Magic	Raymond Buckland	Gypsy spells, tarot, palm reading, reading tea leaves and more.	OL14919505W
The angel of Galilea	Laura Restrepo	"Originally titled Dulce compañía (1995), novel set in Bogotá tells the first-person story of a woman journalist's involvement with the people of a poor barrio and the man they call an angel. Iron…	OL14989216W
The Forbidden Sea (Forbidden Sea #1)	Sheila A. Nielson	A mermaid haunts Adrianne's dreams . . . is she coming to warn her, save her, or drag her down into the depths of the briny sea forever? When Adrianne comes face-to-face with the mermaid of Windwa…	OL15529875W
Lucky T	Kate Brian	Carrie Fitzgerald is the luckiest girl: She is the only sophomore on the varsity basketball team, she always had the lead in the school play, and she has the cutest boyfriend in school. Carrie Fitzge…	OL15861290W
Fancy Nancy Just My Luck	Jane O'Connor	Lorsque Clara présente un trèfle à quatre feuilles en classe, Mademoiselle Nancy apprend à distinguer les objets qui portent chance de ceux qui portent malheur. Mais la liste des objets qui portent m…	OL17443844W
Unwrapped Sky	Rjurik Davidson	A hundred years ago, the Minotaurs saved Caeli-Amur from conquest. Now, three very different people may hold the keys to the city's survival. Once, it is said, gods used magic to create reality, with…	OL17924776W
The Accident Season	Moïra Fowley-Doyle	Every October Cara and her family become mysteriously and dangerously accident-prone, but this year, the year Cara, her ex-stepbrother, and her best friend are 17, is when Cara will begin to unravel …	OL19332475W
A Poison Apple Book	Suzanne Nelson	The last place in the world Bree wants to spend her summer is at Midnight Lake. There's no cell reception, no shopping, and no normal food! To make matters worse, Bree's Aunt Hedda seems determined t…	OL19354730W
Hitler's monsters	Eric Kurlander	"The definitive history of the supernatural in Nazi Germany, exploring the occult ideas, esoteric sciences, and pagan religions touted by the Third Reich in the service of power. The Nazi fascination…	OL19670623W
Hitler's Monsters	Eric Kurlander	1 online resource (xxii, 422 pages) :	OL20598021W
Léon et les superstitions	Annie Groovie	Une trentane superstitions sont mises en images, dans de courtes bandes dessinées loufoques et minimalistes sur fond coloré de couleurs vives. Accompagnées d'une courte explication rédigée en des ter…	OL21585252W
Cross your fingers, spit in your hat	Alvin Schwartz	Superstitions about such topics as love and marriage, money, ailments, travel, the weather, and death.	OL2623426W
Luck	Anthony H. Davidson,Barrie Dolnick	Have you ever noticed that you talk about luck every day of your life? Luck is your silent companion, sometimes bringing awesome parking spaces, a chance meeting with a new love interest, or a small …	OL2709762W
Arthur and the Bad-Luck Brain	Stephen Krensky	The Brain does not believe in superstition, but when he tries to prove that superstitions are nonsense he starts finding bad luck everywhere he turns.	OL448288W
The billy goat curse	Gil Bogen	"In 1945 the most famous curse in sports was placed on the Chicago Cubs when Bill Sianis and his goat were ejected from Wrigley Field. Sianis allegedly cursed the Cubs, promising that they'd never ag…	OL5843567W
Lucky socks	Carrie Weston	Knowing that terrible things happen to him when he does not wear his lucky yellow socks, Kevin despairs when he cannot find them, but then he is surprised by what happens.	OL6210457W
Best of luck	Brown, Myra Berry.	Verses tell how to make the most--or least--of common good and bad luck superstitions.	OL7210216W
Il pendolo di Foucault	Umberto Eco	Il pendolo di Foucault è il secondo romanzo dello scrittore italiano Umberto Eco. Pubblicato nel 1988 dalla casa editrice Bompiani (con cui Eco aveva già un pluridecennale rapporto), è ambientato n…	OL8996438W
Pseudodoxia epidemica	Thomas Browne	Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Enquries into very many received tenets and commonly presumed truths, also known simply as Pseudodoxia Epidemica or Vulgar Errors, is a work by Thomas Browne refuting the com…	OL997525W