Rather than providing a dictionary of superstitions, of which there are already numerous excellent, exhaustive and, in many cases, academic works which list superstitions from A to Z, Bainton gives us an entertaining flight over the terrain, landing from time to time in more thought-provoking areas.
The Olmec language and Teotihuacan language are still outside this preliminary classification: the ones represented by the Olmec area and those of Teotihuacan, which are currently being studied and discovered.
«España mi natura, Italia mi ventura, Flandes mi sepultura», rezan unos versillos anónimos populares entre la soldadesca española de los tercios que combatía por su rey en las cuatro esquinas de Europa.
"Do not think that the one who is trying to comfort you now with his simple and calm words, which sometimes provide you with comfort and pleasure, is living among them without distress.
In zwölf Essays nähert sich Richard Schuberth dem Dichter Lord Byron an und setzt dessen innere Widersprüche in Beziehung zu den Widersprüchen seiner Zeit sowie zu Problemen und Diskursen der Gegenwart.
