What a fascinating post, and as someone who solved a historical mystery on Google Books, I could not agree more about its value! What can you share about the book snippets you've included in this post? I'd love to see if the author(s) collected any folk wisdom in the Ohio Valley where I am from.
Here is the book I gathered snips from: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Current_Superstitions/QSsSAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. Most of it listed anecdotal evidence. It was popular to gather oral knowledge into books at its time of publication, so most interviewers didn’t go too deep. It is intriguing to see the cross-cultural overlaps when you start comparing more targeted collections on superstitions!
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What a fascinating post, and as someone who solved a historical mystery on Google Books, I could not agree more about its value! What can you share about the book snippets you've included in this post? I'd love to see if the author(s) collected any folk wisdom in the Ohio Valley where I am from.
Here is the book I gathered snips from: https://www.google.com/books/edition/Current_Superstitions/QSsSAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0. Most of it listed anecdotal evidence. It was popular to gather oral knowledge into books at its time of publication, so most interviewers didn’t go too deep. It is intriguing to see the cross-cultural overlaps when you start comparing more targeted collections on superstitions!
Thanks! I'll take a look.