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Folklore and urban legend

What ordinary people tell after dark — including the Rule of Thirds, which is superstition and also good policy.

"It is not that the peasant sees more than the canon. It is that the peasant believes more of what he sees." — a rural Father Spina, quoted in Materia Folklorica, 1872


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