The Myths and Fables of To-Day

The Myths and Fables of To-Day written by Samuel Adams Drake. Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill. Published in 1900. This book has 15 chapters.

I. A Reckoning with Time

II. The Folk-lore of Childhood

III. Weather Lore

IV. Signs of All Sorts

V. Charms to Good Luck

VI. Charms against Disease

VII. Of Fate in Jewels

VIII. Of Love and Marriage

IX. Of Evil Omens

X. Of Haunted Houses, Persons, and Places

XI. Of Presentiments

XII. The Divining-rod

XIII. Wonders of the Physical Universe

XIV. "Ships that Pass in the Night”

XV. Fortune-telling, Astrology, and Palmistry