Superstitions, funeral ceremonies, and old russian epigraphy

Medical Superstitions in Ireland

WHEN I was a small child I had an attack of whooping-cough, for which ailment I received whatever medical treatment was then in vogue. In addition to this, however, I was taken to the gasworks. The fumes of the gas were no more efficacious than the more orthodox remedies, and as my whooping was apparently distressing to listen to, I was next taken to a large brewery and encouraged to hang over ...

Medieval marriage and superstitions.

A Christian Funeral Director's Reflections on the Modern Funeral

Funeral insurance

Funeral insurance has existed at least since antiquity, and it remains popular in many parts of Africa today. Yet the study of funeral insurance as a distinct form of insurance has hitherto been neglected. This paper presents a model in which funeral insurance combines regular life insurance with a restriction on how the payout is spent. The model predicts that there is an intermediate range of...

Contemporary Medical Superstitions

and relief in time of sickness?of their castes, their tenets, and their practices, and any one so disposed might glean from the Indian medical periodicals of the last half century materials for a very instructive essay on the subject. We hear, on the one hand, of a physician caste, learned in the traditions of a past era, holding as an heir-loom an empirical knowledge of remedies, which we shou...