Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Leach, Maria

The soup stone By Maria Leach; Decorations by Mamie Harmon - U.S. Wagnall's 1945 - 160 p.

The magic of familiar things

Explains how various items of common use have acquired the significance they have, such as, admonitions about spilling the salt. Other anecdotes deal with expressions of figures of speech, such as, holding the bag.


Magic


Folklore

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