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This is an email sent via the SHCG List. If you reply to this message, your message will be sent to all the people on the list, not just the author of this message. --------------- Dear all Has anyone got in their collection any Bible known to have been used for “superstitious” purposes, e.g. to protect house, person, horse etc from harm, to effect a cure, or foretell the future? In other words, its the book itself that works, rather than the meaning of the text. There’s a very good paper by Brian Malley on ‘The Bible in British Folklore’, but it’s entirely based on the literature, not on collections. Many thanks, Crispin Paine The SHCG list is provided for members of Social History Curators Group to discuss subjects relevant to social history in museums. To join SHCG visit www.shcg.org.uk . Opinions expressed in this email are the responsibility of the author and are not necessarily shared by SHCG. To leave the list do not reply to this message but send an email to [log in to unmask] with a blank subject line and these words as the body of the email: SIGNOFF SHCG-LIST