Enjoy this excerpt from A Provincial Glossary: with a Collection of Local Proverbs, and Popular Superstitions published in 1787 and by Francis Grose of A Classical Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue fame. I’ve tried to clean up the translation, but I might have missed an f-to-s here and there, and I’ve left other words in their archaic form. … Continue reading "Creepy Georgian and Regency Superstitions"