A 3-volume set featuring Brand's best-known work, "Chiefly Illustrating the Origin of Our Vulgar Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions". Includes sections on Sorcery and Witchcraft, Ghosts and Apparitions, The Moon, Charms, and much more. John Brand (1744–1806) was secretary of the Society of Antiquaries and an English clergyman. "This mighty work laid the foundations for a science of folklore, and became a landmark in the history of English thought" (Dorson, The British Folklorists, p. 17).