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POPULAR BELIEFS. 



We have said nothing as to many other popular superstitions, traces of 

 which still exist, such as the use of magic talismans, amulets, rings, herbs, 

 stones, and the hair of animals (see chapter on Occult Sciences), for an 

 enumeration of them would merely serve to display the ignorance of our 

 ancestors, over which it is better that we should draw a veil. 



Fig. 191. The Siren. Token of Gerard Morrhy, Printer at Paris in 1551. 



