{"id":9136,"date":"2021-12-09T13:37:04","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T13:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=9136"},"modified":"2021-12-09T13:37:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T13:37:04","slug":"magic-in-london-1925","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2021\/12\/09\/magic-in-london-1925\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic in London (1925)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New on Hathi, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/babel.hathitrust.org\/cgi\/pt?id=inu.30000118485865&amp;view=2up&amp;seq=7&amp;skin=2021\">Magic in modern London<\/a><\/em> (1925). A serious Folk-lore Society study of enduring superstitions and related lore in London.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/magiclocont.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/magiclocont.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9137\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Such a pity no-one ever did the same for Stoke. Though here you can see a variety of items suggesting at least relic folk-beliefs circa 1900. The two carved owls atop on the side-posts, the green-man like faces on the wrought iron flanking the door, the four mirrors in the window, and the spread eagle (or possibly a mythic bird, as it seems to have a peacock&#8217;s head) above all. Actually it might even be a large duck.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/burslem-district-industrial-co-operative-shop-col.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/burslem-district-industrial-co-operative-shop-col.jpg?w=640\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"406\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-9139\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New on Hathi, Magic in modern London (1925). A serious Folk-lore Society study of enduring superstitions and related lore in London. Such a pity no-one ever did the same for Stoke. Though here you can see a variety of items suggesting at least relic folk-beliefs circa 1900. The two carved owls atop on the side-posts, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}