Accentuate the Rational| rebtinfo.com
While I didn’t grow up associating seafood with death omens, or positive lucky ones for that matter, many communities did.| Burials & Beyond
My wife discovered a remarkable poster when she was visiting Myanmar. Hanging in most domestic kitchens, it advises against certain food combinations that, it is claimed, could make you ill or even kill you outright. But where do such remarkable beliefs come from? And how can they remain embedded, sometimes for hundreds of years, in […]| Dr Len Fisher
It was a fact of medieval life that you could die a sinner. However sin eaters, on the edge of society, could take that sin away for beer and a loaf of bread.| Historic Mysteries
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(Mis) Reading the History of Petitionary Prayer and Superstition| Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective