Berens' Handbook: URANUS AND GÆA
From A Handbook of Mythology (1886) by E.M. Berens. Edited by L.E. Ataire.
Ants
The Matchmaking Ant - a Korean Folktale
An angleworm wanted to get married, so he asked an ant to act as
a go-between and find him a wife.
The ant arranged for the angleworm to wed a thousand-legged worm.
When the angleworm heard this, he cried: “Oh, no! I never
Alligator
ALLIGATOR
To see an alligator, was considered a very lucky omen to the people of Anamaboe and Dixcove in Ghana.
For a maiden to see an alligator in the water, foretells trouble.
The South American natives on the banks of the Orinoco river believe that an alligator, before going in
Quicksilver
Early Black Americans believed that sprinkling the floor with quicksilver would deter ghosts.
Ram Ram!
In Bengalese folklore, shouting "Ram Ram!" drives way ghosts and all evil things.
Source
Encyclopaedia of superstitions, folklore, and the occult sciences of the world. : a comprehensive library of human belief and practice in the mysteries of life ... Editorial staff: Cora Linn Daniels and C.M. Stevans. (1903). Chicago.
Antler
"Antler– Stags' horns are considered in Spain to be an omen of the evil eye, and to be a safeguard against its malignant influence.
Should the evil glance be cast, it is believed the horn recieves it and instantly snaps asunder. They wear a tip of horn mounted in silver
Amethyst
Amethyst – The "maid stone." It's said that she who wears an amethyst will sleep calmly and have innocent dreams.
Amethyst is believed to remove drunkenness, particularly wine-coloured stones. The word, amethyst comes from, the Greek word amethystos, meaning “not drunken.
It also was thought to divert hailstones and plagues of