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tions of the signs of the Zodiac are also to be met with apparently 

 points to a superstitious veneration for them, inherited most 

 probably from ancient Babylonian or Egyptian sources. 



At one time charms engraved with the signs of the Zodiac were 

 not uncommon in England ; the gold finger rings still procurable in 

 India, Egypt, Madeira, and elsewhere, bearing the same signs, may 

 be the remains of this old superstition. 



