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Jewish Magic and Superstition, by Joshua Trachtenberg, [1939], at sacred-texts.com


JEWISH MAGIC AND SUPERSTITION

A Study in Folk Religion

Joshua Trachtenberg

New York: Behrman's Jewish Book House

[1939]

Scanned, proofed and formatted by John Bruno Hare at sacred-texts.com, January 2008. This text is in the public domain in the US because its copyright was not renewed in a timely fashion at the US Copyright office as required by law at the time.

Frontispiece: POPULAR MEDIEVAL AMULET TO PROTECT THE MOTHER AND CHILD AGAINST ATTACK BY LILIT DURING CHILDBIRTH.—FROM <i>Sefer Raziel</i>, AMSTERDAM, 1701.
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Frontispiece: POPULAR MEDIEVAL AMULET TO PROTECT THE MOTHER AND CHILD AGAINST ATTACK BY LILIT DURING CHILDBIRTH.—FROM Sefer Raziel, AMSTERDAM, 1701.


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