The Old Wives' Tale
Author: Arnold Bennett
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13:
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Old Wives' Tales
Author: Peter H. Engel
Publisher: St Martins Press
Published: 1993-01-01
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9780312098896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAssesses the truth and falsehood of one hundred examples of conventional wisdom
Old Wives' Tales
Author: Mary Chamberlain
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2012-05-30
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 0752486799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom 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?
The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book
Author: Angela Carter
Publisher: Pantheon
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labour created our world." -- From the Introduction There was a time when fairy tales weren't meant just for children -- they were part of an oral folklore tradition passed down through generations. This volume of sixty enchanting and enduring tales, collected by master storyteller Angela Carter, revives the industry, eccentricity, spirit, and worldly wisdom of women in preindustrial times. Drawn from narrative traditions all around the world -- from ancient Swahili legends to Appalachian tall tales to European spirit stories and more -- these tales together comprise a unique feminine mythology. Angela Carter (1940-1992) was widely known for her novels, short stories, and journalism. Her many books include The Magic Toy Shop, The Sadeian Woman, Nights at the Circus, Fireworks, and Saints and Strangers.
The Little Book of Old Wives' Tales
Author: Sarah Klain
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9789798201394
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Author: George Peele
Publisher:
Published: 1908
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13:
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Author: Iris Andreski
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA delightful little book about the daily life and thought of Ibibio women of southeastern Nigeria. Andreski has gathered stories and biographies from more than two dozen elderly women, has tried to put them in ethnological perspective and shows the differential impact of rapid social changes.
What to Believe When You're Expecting
Author: Jonathan Schaffir
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2017-10-06
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1538102080
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPregnant 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
Author: Robert Bernstein
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 1998-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780395924921
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Do Blue Bedsheets Bring Babies?
Author: Thomas J. Craughwell
Publisher: Broadway
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780767921886
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentifies which sayings, superstitions, and assertions to follow and which to avoid to better protect our lives. Drawn upon the latest research from a range of fields to reveal the facts and fallacies behind old wives' tales.
