The Little Book Of Old Wives' Tales
The Little Book Of Old Wives' Tales

Author: Sarah Klain

Publisher: Sarah Klain

Published: 2021-06-30

Total Pages: 71

ISBN-13:

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Have you ever witnessed a person wearing a red string on their left hand, or touching their belly when they see a bride? What about avoiding walking underneath a ladder on the street? The Little Book of Old Wives' Tales is the first volume in, The Little Book Of series by Sarah Klain. The author debuts her first book of old wives' tales in fifty-seven colourful and vivid illustrations. These humorous tales passed down from generations in her family lineage are about premonitions, relationships, pregnancy, death, health, misfortune, and fortune. This is the perfect and ideal book to sit down with a nice cuppa and have a laugh or two, or gift to someone who might need some mystical spice in their life.

Old Wives Tales
Old Wives Tales

Author: Electa Kane Tritsch

Publisher:

Published: 2002-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781403343161

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When Dr. Nora Tunney accepts a job directing an archeological survey, she has no idea it will change her life. But the stray documents she collects bring her close to three of the "old wives" who built Mill Farm.

Old Wives' Tales
Old Wives' Tales

Author: Mary Chamberlain

Publisher: The History Press

Published: 2012-05-30

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 0752486799

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From goddesses and witches to modern-day doctors—an entertaining history of women healers featuring an A–Z of remedies The woman healer is as old as history—for millennia she has been doctor, nurse, and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down in the form of old wives' tales. Using extensive research into archives and original texts, and numerous conversations with women in city and countryside, Mary Chamberlain presents a stimulating challenge to the history of orthodox medicine and an illuminating survey of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times.What are old wives’ tales? Where do they come from? Do they really work? These questions, and many more, are answered in this fascinating compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time. We may all know that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labor?

Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories
Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories

Author: Tania Modleski

Publisher: NYU Press

Published: 1998-11

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0814755941

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Alerting readers to a body of recent work that has gone under-examined, Tania Modleski redraws in Old Wives' Tales the perimeter of popular culture. A critical analysis of films such as The Ballad of Little Jo, The Piano and Dogfight, Old Wives' Tales also takes up performance, autobiographical experience, and contemporary social issues to illustrate how women's genres mediate between us and reality. Modelski examines the changes occurring in traditional women's genres, such as romances and melodrama, and explores the phenomenon of female authors and performers who "cross-dress"--women, that is, who are moving into male genres and staking out territory declared off-limits by men and by many feminists.

Old Wives' Lore
Old Wives' Lore

Author: Polly Bloom

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books

Published: 2013-09-17

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1782431624

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A treasure trove of age-old customs and time-honoured advice, as well as intriguing old wives' tales.

What to Believe When You're Expecting
What to Believe When You're Expecting

Author: Jonathan Schaffir

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-10-06

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 1538102080

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Pregnant women encounter advice from many directions about how to have a healthy pregnancy – not only from health care providers, but from relatives, friends, and the Internet. Some of these pieces of advice (on topics that range from inducing labor to telling the baby’s gender to improving breastfeeding) have been handed down from woman to woman for generations, and don’t appear in any medical textbooks. Dr. Jonathan Schaffir explores the origins of these old wives’ tales, and examines the medical evidence that proves which ones may be useful and which ones are just entertaining. On topics ranging from getting pregnant to the best way to recover from childbirth, the book settles the questions of what a woman should believe when she hears such advice.

Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels
Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels

Author: Robert Bernstein

Publisher: Mariner Books

Published: 1998-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780395924921

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This book covers remedies from ancient Egypt to the rain forests of contemporary Latin America, and challenges the myth that modern clinical practice is the only effective form of medicine. The authors find that modern research often reveals a rational basis for supposedly outdated ideas. Most important, an increasing number of physicians, pharmaceutical researchers, and scientists are beginning to recognize the wealth of knowledge that can be retrieved from abandoned practices of earlier eras in Western medicine and from outside the boundaries of Western ideas entirely.

Mr. Hartston's Most Excellent Encyclopedia of Useless Information
Mr. Hartston's Most Excellent Encyclopedia of Useless Information

Author: William Hartston

Publisher: Metro Publishing, Limited

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 9781843581604

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Useless information--we can't get enough of it. Everywhere you look these days, there is a new book of trivia, a new web page, a new column in the newspaper, all containing a wealth of fascinatingly useless tidbits. Finding the answers to questions you'd never thought to ask, reading an off-the-wall statistic, or browsing through lists of zany facts is always a refreshing and amusing distraction from the tawdry details of everyday life. But this is no ordinary list of random facts. Unlike other books of useless information, it is organized alphabetically and full of cross references so that all those hilarious entries can be enjoyed and shared with other like-minded trivia fanatics. This is a treasure chest of a book for anyone whose curiosity extends beyond the worthy and dull to the eccentric and amusing!