Excerpt from Antiquitates Vulgares, or the Antiquities of the Common People: Giving an Account of Several of Their Opinions and Ceremonies; With Proper Reflections Upon Each of Them, Shewing Which May Be Retained and Which Ought to Be Laid Aside Faithfulness, as in the transmitting of vulgar Rites and popular Opinions. Of these, when we are desirous of tracing them back wards to their Origin, many lose themselves in Antiquity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.