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Plague Superstitions

  • Carrying flowers in your pocket and burning scented wood for protection

Witches

Superstitions about witches included:

  • They could fly
  • They were old and unattractive
  • They lived alone and away from the town
  • They kept pets known as 'familiars' and used them to perform evil spells
  • They could create potions in a cauldron

Good Luck Superstitions

  • Touching a man about to be hung
  • Possessing the right hand of an executed criminal
  • A cow exhaling on you
  • Spitting into fire
  • The element of fire, iron, silver, salt and/or running water in a charm

Everyday Superstitions

Astrology

Bad Luck Superstitions

  • Saying bless you after someone sneezed to ward off the devil
  • Black cats were unlucky
  • 'Touchwood' was created because trees were believed to have magical powers
  • Sailors wore gold hoop earrings to pay their fare in the underworld in case they sunk and drown
  • Solar and lunar eclipses
  • Peacock feathers
  • Walking under ladders
  • Placing shoes on the table
  • Spilling salt and pepper
  • Stirring a pot counter-clockwise
  • A sudden loss of hair
  • Leaving the door open behind you

Astrology is the study of celestial bodies and its effects on human lives.

Different branches of astrology included:

Natal - About lives

Electional - Predicting the best time to do something

Medical - Diagnosing and treating diseases

Elizabethan Era Superstitions and Astrology

Tara Kenny

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