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"This was originally work supporting the author's doctoral thesis in folklore and published in 1915. The work is a catalog of beliefs and superstitions among the Pennsylvania Germans, along with translations in English and comparative sources. For those of us who are interested in folklore, this is quite an interesting collection. The book is well organized and the introduction quite informative. Some of the beliefs have clearly a rational basis while others seem to be a part of the collective folk mentality.

My only complaint is that the author chose to move the sexual beliefs and superstitions out of the book and into a supplement that doesn't seem to be available, though no doubt this was due to the assault on medical textbooks and the like from that era under obscenity laws.

All in all, it's a worthy resource."

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Beliefs and superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans edition by Edwin Miller Fogel Religion Spirituality eBooks Reviews

• This was originally work supporting the author's doctoral thesis in folklore and published in 1915. The work is a catalog of beliefs and superstitions among the Pennsylvania Germans, along with translations in English and comparative sources. For those of us who are interested in folklore, this is quite an interesting collection. The book is well organized and the introduction quite informative. Some of the beliefs have clearly a rational basis while others seem to be a part of the collective folk mentality.
  
  My only complaint is that the author chose to move the sexual beliefs and superstitions out of the book and into a supplement that doesn't seem to be available, though no doubt this was due to the assault on medical textbooks and the like from that era under obscenity laws.
  
  All in all, it's a worthy resource.
• This book was another that I had to have for my PA Dutch library. This book lays out the superstitions of the PA Dutch. I can trace my Dutch ancestors to the 1700's before they came to the US and so I've grown up with some of these things never really knowing why and never really questioning it, it just was. This book can be funny, but it also makes you realize how hard life was back then for these farmers
• (Originally a review of the original printing, not this facimile.)
  
  This was originally work supporting the author's doctoral thesis in folklore and published in 1915. The work is a catalog of beliefs and superstitions among the Pennsylvania Germans, along with translations in English and comparative sources. For those of us who are interested in folklore, this is quite an interesting collection. The book is well organized and the introduction quite informative. Some of the beliefs have clearly a rational basis while others seem to be a part of the collective folk mentality.
  
  My only complaint is that the author chose to move the sexual beliefs and superstitions out of the book and into a supplement that doesn't seem to be available, though no doubt this was due to the assault on medical textbooks and the like from that era under obscenity laws.
  
  All in all, it's a worthy resource.
• Published in 1915, this is one of the older books on the topic of superstitions in America. The book has 2,085 beliefs listed (in both German and English). I find this book particularly interesting because it has a lot of beliefs in it that I've never read anywhere else, and I have many books on this topic. Furthermore, because of it's age I believe it contains beliefs you will not see quoted elsewhere, if anything, books written on the topic of superstition may actually quote this book. All of that said, I imagine that today this little-known book would be of primary interest to folklorists, not the average person.