Here Brewton Berry, professor of
- Sociology, with a Doctor’s degree
from Edinburgh, follows the foibles
of mankind down through the ages
in a subject that is older than civili-
zation, but ever new. Devils, ghosts,
witches, omens and other interesting
things like that peep out in print to
tell you what it means to laugh be-
fore breakfast, what happens when
you drop a dish rag, and how to
make a barren tree bear fruit.

From him you learn about necro-
mancy, cleromancy, and scapulim-
ancy, and what happened. when
Fabius Maximus was elected for a
third term.