[Mr Ramsbotham]

If you're interested in the nature of human superstition and the ritual that's predicated upon it, you can't do better than James Fraser's seminal anthropological work The Golden Bough. To anyone familiar with Fraser's work (packed with specific and detailed accounts) nothing wrought by the mind of primitive man is surprising.

[Pharmboy]

Loved that book, although it became a bit mind-numbing after a few hundred pages.