SCIENTIFIC CIRCLES

Modern magic, occult, luck, superstition.

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Manifested Glory Ministries. Stamford, Connecticut

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Etruscans believed both the hen and the cock to be “soothsayers”: the hen, because her squawk foretold the laying of an egg; the cock, because his crow heralded the dawn of a new day.

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A dead man and the devil, c. 1300-1310

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Italian superstitions:

* Never trim your toe nails or finger nails on a Thursday.

* Don’t get married or start a journey or new project on a Friday or a Tuesday.

* Never have your hair cut during the new moon.

* Never get a perm during your menstrual cycle.

* Eat plenty of...

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“I was trying to get rid of my same-sex attractions,” he told me. “The person at the altar yelled so everyone could hear: ‘Demon of homosexuality! Come out of this young man!’ And he smacked me on my forehead to ‘slay me in the spirit.’ A friend had to get me up from the altar, pick me up, and get me back to my seat, because I was absolutely mortified.

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A selection of amulets and charms collected by the English amateur folklorist Edward Lovett. Lovett was born in 1852 and when he was not working as a bank clerk he made many trips to the working class areas of London in search of curios. He amassed a collection of over 1000 objects which he had purchased from various people and places including herbalist shops, costermongers and dockyard workers.

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Oreste Benzi, a priest who works to rehabilitate Satanists, estimates that these worshippers of the occult number around 600,000 in Italy.

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On average, one American dies each day in a bathtub accident -- and one American dies each year from a shark attack.

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Something that bears periodic repeating:

If you wouldn’t eat or drink out of it, don’t use it as an offering vessel.

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For good luck, rub an egg on your body every night. At the end of nine days, dispose of the egg outside your home.

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Endangered species seized by UK Border Forces

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Mike Tyson visited a ‘hoodoo woman’ who said she would cast a spell to keep him out of jail if he a) put five hundred dollar bills in a jar b) urinated in it and c) kept it under his bed for three days.

Tyson served three years in prison.

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One in three of the normal civilians were able to guess the contents of sealed envelopes in a 2001 Ministry of Defense psychic test, which included pictures of: a knife, Mother Teresa, and "an Asian individual."