Superstitious observations: fortune-telling in English folk culture

J. Harte

DOI:10.1080/1751696X.2018.1433357

Corpus ID: 165848305

Superstitious observations: fortune-telling in English folk culture

@article{Harte2018SuperstitiousOF,
  title={Superstitious observations: fortune-telling in English folk culture},
  author={J. Harte},
  journal={Time and Mind},
  year={2018},
  volume={11},
  pages={67 - 88}
}

J. Harte
Published 2018
History
Time and Mind

ABSTRACT Magic and divination were dismissed by the Victorian elite as the ignorant beliefs of a socially backward underclass. But a more nuanced approach would ask how magical thought worked in practice. Superstitions were not simply mistaken beliefs, but indicated an alternative universe of interpretation, one in which working-class people took refuge under the strain of misfortunes which would have been too bleak to contemplate in rationally objective terms. The less control that people had… Expand

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