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Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition. Stuart A. Vyse. New York: Oxford. 1997. Celebrity and Power: Fame in Contemporary Culture. P. David Marshall. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997.
What do these two books have in common? Almost everything because both investigate drives in human nature which force us to admit our own inferiority and short-comings and the hopes that others can help us.
Vyse examines most aspects of superstitions in sane understandable language. Though he introduces some new individuals and fields, his final conclusion is that people are...